Level | Fonds |
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | UB/COM |
Title | Records of University of Birmingham Committees |
Extent | 687 volumes and 40 files |
Date | 1900- |
Description | Records of committees of the Council and Senate of the University of Birmingham, and of other joint committees which reported to the governing bodies of the University. These consist primarily of official minutes, but for some committees there are also some indexes; attendance books; sets of reports; committee correspondence; registers; and other associated papers. In the majority of cases, the minutes are the official versions, though there are a small number of committees for which the surviving records are sets of minutes kept by the Registrar and identified to fill gaps in the records. Minutes were usually signed and bound into volumes or loose leaf binders until the 1990s. From that point onwards, most minutes are not signed, even when they are the authorised set.
These records are a major research resource for the study of the history and development of the University and, together with minutes and reports of Council and Senate, form the core of the University's archive. They contain valuable information about the institution's academic policy (particularly records of the Committee of Principals and Deans; records of the Senate Executive and Academic Executive; records of the Academic Board and its sub-committees; and records of various academic policy committees); financial policy (particularly records of the Finance and General Purposes Committee; Audit Committee and other financial committees); built environment and estate (particularly records of the Buildings Committee; Developments Committee; and Planning and Priorities Committee); relations with students (particularly records of student accommodation committees and halls of residence; but also records of the Physical Education committee; records of health services and nursery committees; records of the Overseas Students Committee; records of the Appointments Board; records of the University Centre Committee; and records of the Campus Life Policy Committee); relations with staff (particularly records of Staff House Committee; and the Technical, Clerical and General Staff Committee); the institution's governance (particularly records of charter and statutes revision committees); and the management of research centres (particularly the Centre of West African Studies, the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, and Adult Education); and the management of the Library, and of service units
This set of records may be referred to in conjunction with records of Council (UB/COU) and Senate (UB/SEN) which appointed and received the reports of the majority of these committees. Council and Senate minutes also contain reports of some committees for which no discrete set of records survive. Although this section comprises an extensive set of committee records, it is not a comprehensive or complete set of all committee records created by the University of Birmingham. There are known gaps in the records, both within surviving record sequences, and in the absence of records of committees which are known to have existed, but which either have not survived or have not so far been transferred to the University Archives |
Arrangement | This section is organized by committee, but the committees are not arranged in any particular order. Records within each series are usually arranged chronologically
The section is divided into the following series:
UB/COM/1 Finance and General Purposes Committee UB/COM/2 Committee of Principals and Deans UB/COM/3 Senate Executive Committee UB/COM/4 Academic Executive Committee UB/COM/5 Planning and Priorities Committee UB/COM/6 Vice-Chancellor's Planning Committee UB/COM/7 Strategy, Planning, and Resources Committee UB/COM/8 University Executive Board UB/COM/9 Library Committee UB/COM/10 General Purposes Committee UB/COM/11 Refectories Committees UB/COM/12 Refectory and Staff House Committee UB/COM/13 Audit Committee UB/COM/14 Nominations Committee UB/COM/15 Quality Assurance Committee UB/COM/16 Buildings Committee UB/COM/17 Opening of New Buildings Special Committee UB/COM/18 Developments Committee UB/COM/19 Chancellorship and Edgbaston Reconstruction Committee UB/COM/20 Sub-Committee for Mural Tablets at Bournbrook UB/COM/21 Air Raid Precautions Committee UB/COM/22 Queen's College Hall of Residence Committee UB/COM/23 Chancellor's Hall Committee UB/COM/24 Halls of Residence Committee UB/COM/25 Senate Committee on Halls of Residence UB/COM/26 Joint Senate and Council Committee on Halls of Residence UB/COM/27 Chad Hill Committee UB/COM/28 University House sub-committee UB/COM/29 Griffin Close sub-committee UB/COM/30 Lodgings Committee UB/COM/31 Financial sub-committee for Student Residences UB/COM/32 Military Education Committee UB/COM/33 Ground Committee UB/COM/34 Joint Students Union Committee UB/COM/35 Medical School Buildings Committee UB/COM/36 Charter Revision Committee UB/COM/37 Charter and Statutes Committee UB/COM/38 Centenary Celebrations Committee UB/COM/39 Appointments Board UB/COM/40 Staff House sub-committee UB/COM/41 Technical, Clerical and General Staff Committee UB/COM/42 Equipment Committee UB/COM/43 Advisory Board for Research in Mental Disease UB/COM/44 Institute of Engineering Production Committee UB/COM/45 Financial sub-committee for Post-Experience Activities UB/COM/46 Investment Committee UB/COM/47 Enterprise Committee UB/COM/48 Advisory Committee of the Council on Short Term Problems UB/COM/49 Joint Safety Advisory Committee and Safety Executive Committee UB/COM/50 Campus Radio Station Board of Management UB/COM/51 Observatory Committee UB/COM/52 University Foundation for Sport Board of Management UB/COM/53 Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee UB/COM/54 Education Committee UB/COM/55 Academic Policy and Regulations Committee UB/COM/56 Joint Committee on Technical Workers UB/COM/57 Sub-Committee on Technical Staff UB/COM/58 First Degrees Committee UB/COM/59 Higher Degrees Committee UB/COM/60 Academic Board UB/COM/61 Committee for the Area Studies Centres UB/COM/62 Biochemistry Committee UB/COM/63 Macromolecular Analysis Service Committee UB/COM/64 Committee on Biotechnology UB/COM/65 Bookshop Committee UB/COM/66 Broader Education Committee UB/COM/67 Centre of West African Studies Committee UB/COM/68 Committee on Russian and East European Studies UB/COM/69 Committee on Computers UB/COM/70 Computers, TV and Film Unit sub-committee UB/COM/71 Computers Technical sub-committee UB/COM/72 Board of Continuing Education UB/COM/73 Committee for the Control of Radiation Exposure UB/COM/74 Educational Development Committee UB/COM/75 Educational Services Committee UB/COM/76 Educational Development Advisory Committee UB/COM/77 Committee on Educational Technology UB/COM/78 Television and Educational Technology sub-committee UB/COM/79 Joint Board of Engineering Commerce and Management UB/COM/80 Development Committee on Environmental Studies UB/COM/81 Committee on the Effects of Development on the University Environment UB/COM/82 Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Management UB/COM/83 Committee on Field Course, Vacation and Hardship Grants UB/COM/84 Graduate Research Committee UB/COM/85 Guild/Senate Committee UB/COM/86 Committee on the Future of the Hayter Centres UB/COM/87 Health Services Management Centre Committee UB/COM/88 Information Technology Committee UB/COM/89 General Committee of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Engineering Science UB/COM/90 Advisory Committee for the Institute of Public and Environmental Health UB/COM/91 Life Sciences Committee UB/COM/92 Senate Committee Tuition in English, Foreign and Colonial Students and other committees UB/COM/93 Neurocommunications Research Unit Committee UB/COM/94 Open Lectures Committee UB/COM/95 Overseas Students Committee UB/COM/96 Committee on Overseas Affairs UB/COM/97 University Periodical Editorial Board UB/COM/98 PhD Degree Committee UB/COM/99 Physical Education Committee UB/COM/100 Committee on Post Experience Studies UB/COM/101 Recognised Chaplains Committee UB/COM/102 Research Committee UB/COM/103 Research Staff Committee UB/COM/104 Research Postgraduate Committee UB/COM/105 Taught Postgraduate Committee UB/COM/106 Undergraduate Committee UB/COM/107 Senate Constitutional Committee UB/COM/108 Committee on Super Conductivity UB/COM/109 Teaching and Learning Committee UB/COM/110 Committee on Proposed Department of Psychology and Committee on Phonetics UB/COM/111 Sub-Committee on Refectory Policy UB/COM/112 University Centre Committee UB/COM/113 University Centre Committee and Guild of Students Joint Working Party UB/COM/114 University Centre and Union Services Catering Joint Sub-Committee UB/COM/115 Open Forum Working Party UB/COM/116 Conference Grants Committee UB/COM/117 Senate Standing Joint-Committee on Radioactive Isotopes UB/COM/118 Senate Committee on the status, payment and tenure of office of junior staff UB/COM/119 Foreign Matriculation Board UB/COM/120 Secondary Education Board UB/COM/121 Committees Attendance Books UB/COM/122 Membership Committee UB/COM/123 Postgraduate Committee UB/COM/124 Register of Interests for members of Council, University Committees and Senior Administrative Officers UB/COM/125 Sub-Committee for Externally Provided Programmes/External and Collaborative Programmes Committee UB/COM/126 Advisory Panel on Inter-Faculty Degree Courses UB/COM/127 MBA Committee UB/COM/128 Guild Working Group UB/COM/129 Board of Adult Education UB/COM/129 Diamond Jubilee Appeal for Halls of Residence Committee UB/COM/130 Appeal Committee UB/COM/131 Ironbridge Institute Steering Committee UB/COM/132 Building Names Committee UB/COM/133 Ashby Plan Committee UB/COM/134 ICI Fellowship Committee UB/COM/135 Senate Development Committee UB/COM/136 Wages and Establishment Committee UB/COM/137 Academic Regulations Group UB/COM/138 Board of Studies for Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education UB/COM/139 Campus Life Policy Committee UB/COM/140 Portfolio Development Committee UB/COM/141 Educational Development Committee UB/COM/142 Information Services Policy Committee of Senate UB/COM/143 Deans Review UB/COM/144 Joint Committee on Disabled Members of the University UB/COM/145 Joint Student Welfare Committee UB/COM/146 Joint Careers Service Executive Committee UB/COM/147 Joint Committee on Post Experience Training UB/COM/148 Joint University Health Service Committee UB/COM/149 Joint University Health Service Day Nursery Working Party UB/COM/150 Biomedical Ethical Review sub-committee UB/COM/151 Joint Research Ethics and Conduct Committee UB/COM/152 Guild Strategy Committee UB/COM/153 Joint Implementation Group, Westhill UB/COM/154 Joint Board of Studies Universities of Birmingham and Reading; MPhil in Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement; MPhil in Botanical Diversity UB/COM/155 University of Birmingham and United Birmingham Hospitals Medical Computer Services Committee UB/COM/156 University of Birmingham, United Birmingham Hospitals and Birmingham Regional Hospital Board Standing Joint Committee UB/COM/157 Joint Board of the University of Birmingham and the Midland Training Colleges UB/COM/158 University of Birmingham and University of Aston Joint Dynamitron Management Committee UB/COM/159 Bio Medical Services Unit Management Group UB/COM/160 Accreditation Committee, Newman UB/COM/161 Accreditation Committee, Westhill UB/COM/162 Accreditation Committee, Birmingham College of Food and Tourism UB/COM/163 St Francis Hall Committee |
Access Conditions | All University Committee minutes are subject to a fifty year closure period. Where records relating to living individuals are of a sensitive nature, further access restrictions have been applied |
Copyright | Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the Director of Special Collections (email: special-collections@contacts.bham.ac.uk). Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
Language | English |
Finding Aids | A catalogue of this collection is available on the online archive catalogue. Click on the Finding Number to display the summary contents list of the catalogue and to view the full catalogue |
Access Status | Partially closed |
Custodial History | University Committee records were transferred to Special Collections in 1989-1990 as part of a project to gather and sort the university's institutional archives. Subsequent transfers of later records have been made by officers servicing University Committees until 2017 |
Archival Note | Catalogued by Helen Fisher, May 2015 to June 2018. Prepared in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. |
Related Material | Records of University Council (UB/COU); Records of University Senate (UB/SEN) |
Publication Note | Eric Ives, Diane Drummond, Leonard Schwartz, 'The First Civic University: Birmingham 1880-1980, An Introductory History', Birmingham 2000 |