Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1957-2018 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
3.05 m of textual and graphic records
9903 digital files (83 MB)
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Digital files from B2011-0003 were copied from 80 3.5 inch floppy disks and 1 CD-R.
Digital files from B2018-0001 were copied from a USB flash drive donated by Lang.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series provides partial documentation of Professor Lang’s years as a senior administrator at the University of Toronto. It begins with correspondence, primarily with President Connell, and related material regarding the Ontario Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario (the Bovey Commission), followed by later correspondence (to 1990) with him. Lang’s outgoing memos and letters from 1989-1997 were stored on 3.5 inch floppy disks and 1 CD-R. They are organized in monthly folders, with 1 disk equaling 1 month of letters and memos and are primarily Microsoft Word documents.
Professor Lang’s “general files” and “miscellaneous projects” begin with two major controversial decisions, the first being the closure of the Faculty of Food Sciences (1974) and the proposed closure of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (1986), with only the first being realized. The remainder of this subseries focuses on capital plans and budgeting, primarily responsibility centre budgeting as applied to Scarborough College. There are also files on Maclean’s magazine university and college surveys from the 1990s. The admission surveys from the last quarter of the 20th century also include a Maclean’s survey.
In the mid-1990s the University introduced a new electronic students’ records system (ROSI) with leadership provided by the Registrars Group. It is well documented here. Professor Lang’s activities as a senior policy advisor to the President of the University of Toronto are also documented.
Professor Lang maintained extensive files on campus development plans and building projects from the mid-1960s to the late 1990s relating to all three campuses, including several on the Southwest Campus. There are also proposals to provide land for a new headquarters building for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (1982) and facilities for the abortive bid to hold the summer Olympics in Toronto in 1996.
B2011-0003 ends with several proposals for an innovations centre and an industrial research centre at the University in the decade from the mid-1980s.
B2018-0001 includes further files related to his role as Senior Policy Advisor to David Naylor, a role in which he served until 2012. Also included are arbitration briefs and notes about a dispute between the Faculty Association and the University in 1986-1987, regarding mandatory retirement for professors. Digital files include email correspondence with several Government of Ontario and U of T officials; files about the Maclean’s survey; and files (notes, briefts, reports) about the expansion of the number of graduate students at the University of Toronto.
Files from B2020-0003 include correspondence with David Naylor (2008-2015), Amanda Pautler (2009-2016) and a draft report by HAY Management Consultants entitled “University of Toronto. Development of Remuneration Standards for Senior Administrative Positions”
Files from B2022-0037 include a number of letters and memos relating to Lang’s various appointments over the years and files related to campus planning activities in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The sub-titles in this series are those used by Professor Lang in his original box list. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, and reports. The arrangement is generally by categories and chronolgically within each, with like materials grouped together.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Restricted. The following files are restricted for 20 years from the last date of activity in the file:
- B2011-0003/008 (01)–(02)
- B2011-0003/015 (07)-(08)
- B2011-0003/016 (01)-(08)
- B2011-0003/017 (01)-(11)
- B2018-0001_df001-df003
- B2018-0001/001 (09), (12)
- B2018-0001/002 (01)-(04)
- B2020-0003/001 (02)-(03)
- B2022-0027/001 (07)-(08)
The following files are restricted and subject to review for third-party personal information in the spirit of FIPPA (Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act):
- B2011-0003_fd3-001 – B2011-0003_fd3-080
- B2011-0003_cd-001
- B2018-0001/001 (02)-(05)
All other files are open. Please contact the University Archivist for additional information.