This accession contains administrative records of the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS). Records consist of several posters and correspondence surrounding events and guest speakers hosted by CSUS. Event types include the F. Ross Johnson (FRJ) Distinguished Speakers Series, book launches, film screenings, graduate student workshops, FRJ Distinguished Visitor sprint courses, election watch parties, and various other conferences, lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and events held at CSUS or co-sponsored with other entities.

Records also contain issues of the Undergraduate Journal of American Studies spanning 2005-2012, as well as some journal publication and events planning documents from this time period and up to 2019. Additionally, there is a selection of administrative records for grants and other funding, course lecturer hiring, past course materials including select sylllabi, programming committee minutes and correspondence, CSUS activity reports between 2005-2013, and employee individual files.

Digital files are comprised of a backup for the CSUS website between 2003-2007, 3 audiovisual recordings of guest lectures, and photographs from 15 different events hosted by CSUS. Events include classes or lectures given by visiting scholars, a book launch, and the CSUS 2008 US election party. Many of these digital records relate to speakers or events represented in the textual records. See file list for details. Digital formats are predominantly images (.jpg).

Subseries consists of reports, correspondence, maps, postcards, and research materials created and accumulated by the General Council in their investigation of regions to establish new missions.

Fonds consists primarily of manuscript scores and parts for music written, arranged, and orchestrated by Phil Nimmons. Materials also include annotated scripts, manuscript scores, and parts for incidental music that Nimmons wrote for various Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television productions; manuscript scores and parts for ensembles that Nimmons led, including Nimmons 'N' Nine, its expanded version Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six, jazz orchestras at the University of Toronto, and the Nimmons Jazz Quartet; and manuscript scores and parts for various other ensembles.

The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) was formed on December 3, 1962 as the “Committee of Presidents of Provincially Assisted Universities and Colleges of Ontario,” with its current name being adopted in 1971. The mandate of the COU is to “build awareness of the university sector’s contributions to the social, economic and cultural well-being of the province and the country, as well as the issues that impact the sector’s ability to maximize these contributions.” It works with Ontario’s publicly assisted universities and one associate member institution, the Royal Military College of Canada. This series documents the activities of a number of its committees and task forces, which are detailed below, approximately in order of activity.

Professor Lang was a member of the COU’s Committee on Enrolment Statistics and Projections from 1976 to 1990. In 1982-1983 he sat on its Special Committee on BILD Administrative Procedures and from 1987 to 1991 was a member of its Research Advisory Group. In 1991 he was invited to be part of a small task force to present proposals to the government for an income contingent repayment plan for Ontario students. Throughout much of the 1990s, he was involved with the COU’s Committee on University Accountability and the Performance Indicators for the Public Postsecondary System in Ontario project, better known as the Performance Indicators Project, the purpose of which was to assess the overall Ontario postsecondary sector.

He was also a member of four task forces: Audit Guidelines (1998-2000), Secondary School Issues (1998-2005), Student Financial Assistance (2006-), and Quality Assurance (2008-2010).
The Task Force on Secondary School Issues was established to assess the evaluation of students in the new secondary school program of studies and to make recommendations regarding the monitoring of grading practices and standards.

The COU’s Quality and Productivity Task Force work was to outline “all the quality and productivity initiatives” undertaken to “showcase results for the government’s increased investment in universities.” Its report, presented in March 2006, was followed by the COU Task Force on Quality Measurements, chaired by David Naylor of the University of Toronto. It was charged with addressing the “broad issues related to quality measurement, developing the long-term strategies for COU’s work with the government and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO).” [1]

Files in B2018-0001 include correspondence with U of T and COU colleagues, as well as further records related to his role on the COU’s Committee on University Accountability. Also included are further records about the COU's Task Force on Quality Assurance (2008-2010), including its subsequent transition and implementation phase.

The files in this series contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, minutes of meetings, drafts of reports, and assorted background reports and other documentation.

NOTES

1. Task Force on Quality Measurement terms of reference, March 2006, in B2011-0003/043(03).

This series consists of five categories of correspondence:

1. Chronological correspondence: correspondence re-arranged chronologically by Beattie prior to donation to the Archives. Includes letters from colleagues, students, publishers, family, friends, and professional contacts. The letters cover both personal and professional topics related to teaching (especially course materials and progression), conferences (invitations to participate and inquiries about subjects/colleagues), travels (particularly in England/Europe), research (archival information requests and the use of Beattie's books in classrooms), research leave (specifically in 1985-1986 while away from his family in London), and personal family life.

2. Professional correspondence files [not re-arranged chronologically]: correspondence files organized by book project or correspondent, including Tina Loo, Joanna Innes, Jim Phillips, Peter Linebaugh, Nick Rogers, and John Styles. The correspondence primarily covers legal and crime history, focusing on the research conducted by Beattie and his correspondents.

3. 132 digital word processing files of outgoing letters, from 2000-2016

4. 1610 emails, circa 2009-2017, from his j.beattie@sympatico.ca email address, which he shared with his wife Susan. Includes correspondence with his family, friends, and colleagues including Allyson May, Jim Phillips, Martin Friedland, Randall McGowen, Simon Devereau, and Joanna Innes.

5. 4 files and 1 digital folder of letters of recommendation written by Beattie for colleagues and students.

Series primarily consists of professional correspondence between Professor Nevitte and colleagues, students, and publishers. Includes correspondence relating to Professor Nevitte’s research, manuscript reviews and submissions, and participation in professional associations and conferences.

The emails in this series span from 2009 to 2021 and were captured from Professor Nevitte’s UToronto email account using the software ePADD. The emails consist of 20245 outgoing and 1928 incoming messages with 1749 correspondents and approximately 5019 attachments (2484 images, 21985 documents, and 550 other file types). The emails include personal correspondence with family and friends as well as professional correspondence with U of T colleagues and admin, co-authors, co-investigators and colleagues from his various research projects, research assistants, and students he has taught or supervised.

File consists of the manuscript score for additional reed parts, conductor's lead sheet and master parts for saxophones (5), trumpets (4), trombones (4), piano, guitar, bass, and drums. File also contains additional parts for French horn and auxiliary percussion.

Series consists of presentations given by Prof. Hassanpour at international conferences and institutions. Records include correspondence, conference papers, newspaper clippings, reports and reference material. Subject matter covers media studies, Kurdish literature, and Middle Eastern social and political history.

Fonds consists of records documenting the professional and personal life of Prof. Hassanpour, Kurdish-Iranian Marxist scholar and Professor at UofT’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. Material reflects key areas of Prof. Hassanpour’s research, most significantly Kurdish history and culture; the history of political movements, grassroots organization, and class struggle in Iran, Iraq and Turkey; and communication theory and sociolinguistics. Material includes correspondence with colleagues and scholars internationally, documentation of research with particular focus on Prof. Hassanpour’s dissertation and his Peasant Movement Project, records relating to conference presentations, interviews, and teaching, as well as his publishing activity.

Prof. Hassanpour was deeply invested in the preservation of Kurdish oral, visual, and textual documentary heritage as a response to the historical state suppression of cultural-political struggle of Kurdish people. Reflected in records throughout the fonds is Prof. Hassanpour’s work in pursuing the establishment of Kurdish Studies as a discipline, his work editing journals related to Kurdistan, and his effort in exposing and circulating books on Kurdish Studies to libraries and research institutions internationally. Prof. Hassanpour also actively collected and preserved Kurdish texts, dailies, and visual materials. This material is included in Series 9 (Reference material) and through bibliographic and audio material held in other repositories at the University of Toronto Libraries (please see the related material note below).

Series consists of selected reference material collected by Prof. Hassanpour that is considered rare. Records include handwritten manuscripts, original historical documents, original or copied historical newspapers (mainly in Kurdish and Persian), bulletins, political declaration and reports. Subject matter covers Kurdish nationalism, political movements in Kurdistan and Iran, human rights, and language. Recordings include documentation of 1970s internationalist student activism, recordings of several P.M. Dr. Mossadiq 1950s speeches, and Kurdish pop, ballad, and folk music.

Series documents Prof. Hassanpour’s research activity across a wide range of subject areas including Kurdish folklore, political history, and language, Marxist theory and criticism, communication theory, and Iranian and Kurdish political history. It includes documentation of Prof. Hassanpour’s involvement with, and reflections on, the first Kurdish satellite television station, MED-TV, that was based in Europe and directed to audiences in the Middle East and Turkey. Material in this series includes notes, correspondence, reports, annotated texts, and recorded interviews that were part of the Interview Kurdish Women Project.

Series includes material related to Prof. Hassanpour’s education and employment, and additional biographical material. Records documenting Prof. Hassanpour’s education cover his studies in Iran and the U.S.A., as well as his involvement with the Confederation of Iranian Student in the U.S.A. and the Kurdish Student Organization in Europe and the U.S.A. Career and employment records include letters of application, contracts, and correspondence documenting Prof. Hassanpour’s positions and organizational membership. Files related to his employment at the University of Windsor document multiple contracts as well as covering a human rights dispute between Prof. Hassanpour and the department. Included are also syllabi, course evaluations, correspondence and course descriptions that cover Prof. Hassanpur’s teaching, particularly related to his work at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto.

File consists of two letters, including one by Kanagaratnam to the "Ceylon Daily News" regarding the trial-at-bar proceedings.