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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office of the President and Chancellor.
MIT Office of the President and Chancellor records of the President, Jerome B. Wiesner, 1960-1984.
The collection contains records generated by Jerome Bert Wiesner as President, 1971-1980, and Provost, 1966-1971.
Records received in 1979, boxes 1-7, 1965-1977, include correspondence, minutes of meetings, memoranda, and notes concerning: Academic Council, 1965-1977; MIT Admissions Office, 1967-1975; MIT Alumni Association, 1966-1974; Institute budget, 1969-1977; Committee on Educational Policy, 1969-1970; Education Division, 1971-1973; Executive Committee of the Corporation, 1971-1977; faculty meetings, 1967-1975; Industrial Liaison Program, 1969-1976; prospective personnel, 1967-1973; and prospective retirements.
Records received in 1980, boxes 8-68, 1967-1980, include correspondence, reports, printed material, working notes, and speeches pertaining to administrative issues such as affirmative action and student affairs; school, department, laboratories and centers at MIT; national associations of which MIT was a member; and fund raising. Minutes of meetings of the Corporation, the Executive Committee, and several other MIT councils and committees are also included.
Records received in 1982, boxes 69-70, 1967-1981, contain the records of the president's discretionary fund, including detail transaction reports, correspondence, and bills.
Records also received in 1982, boxes 71-78, 1965-1981, include correspondence, memoranda, and reports concerning fund raising for the MIT Leadership Campaign.
Records received in 1984, boxes 79-83, 1967-1973, include extensive personnel files of MIT administrators and faculty, minutes and related material about MIT committees and conferences; and information about other activities Wiesner participated in, including fund raising.
Jerome Bert Wiesner became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He took office during a tumultuous period for academic institutions in the United States. Wiesner set up a special task force to evaluate the effects of rising costs, including tuition costs; the decline of federal support for graduate education; the need for increased financial support for students and academic and research programs; and student protests and unrest. The task force recommended the creation of the Office of the Dean for the Academic Program. During the same period, Wiesner set up the Institute Council for the Arts, a continuation of the Committee for the Arts.
In 1972, Wiesner established the Center for Policy Alternatives in the School of Engineering to identify the major technology-related issues facing society, assess the consequences of present policies, and recommend alternative actions to improve society. He was also responsible for the creation of MIT's first affirmative action plan, which he submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on 6 April 1973.
During the period of the Boston schools desegregation, MIT and several other institutions were invited to participate in the development of new programs which allowed students to attend schools that were not within their residence-designated school district. Under Wiesner, MIT's contribution to the program was the creation in 1977 of a city-wide magnet technical junior high school in East Boston, the Mario Umana Harbor School of Science and Technology. Wiesner was also responsible for the creation of Project Interphase, a summer review program for minority students entering MIT to help reduce dropout rates. Wiesner retired from the presidency in 1980.
Arbatov, G. A.
Brandt, Willy, 1913-
Bundy, McGeorge.
Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974.
Campos, Roberto de Oliveira.
Carr, Canon.
Church, Frank, 1924-
Eklund, Sigvard Arne, 1911-2000.
Gray, Paul E.
Hamburg, David.
Jenkins, Roy W.
McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
Association of American Universities.
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts.
Council for the Arts at MIT.
Mario Umana Harbor School for Science and Technology (Boston, Mass.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Academic Council.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alumni Association.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Arts and Media Technology Center.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Policy Alternatives.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on Biomedical Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on Discipline.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on Educational Policy.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on Engineering and Living Systems.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Corporation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Corporation. Executive Committee.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leadership Campaign.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office of the Provost -- 1966-1971.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Planning Office.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Project Interphase.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Project on Work in Technology and Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Urban Coordinating Group.
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Affirmative action programs.
Science -- Study and teaching.
Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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