Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs records

Collection

Identifier: BUA-0041

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the administrative and program records of the Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs. Topics covered include academic departments and courses, general education requirments, assesments and accredidations, awards for faculty, the Libraries, student enrollment and grades, and personnel issues. The collection inculdes correspondence, memos, reports, grant applications, project and program proposals, and digital files.

Dates

Creation: 1952 - 2020

Creator

Binghamton University. Office of the Provost (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection contains restricted materials related to the students and personnel of the University. Because staff will need to review materials for restrictions before providing access, researchers should email speccoll@binghamton.edu about the collection well ahead of any research visit.

Biographical / Historical

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The Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs is the chief academic administrator at Binghamton University. They are responsible for overseeing undergraduate and graduate academic programs, recruiting and retaining faculty, and overseeing assesment of all academic programs. They also play a key role in determining and tracking the budget.

S. Stewart Gordon became the first Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1967. While this date is the official creation of the role, Gordon had served in the similar position of Dean of Harpur College since 1955. In 1965, Harpur College had joined the SUNY system and had become State University of New York at Binghamton. This change neccesitated the creation of the new Vice President for Academic Affairs position.

The following timeline of the Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs gives approximate dates that individuals held the position. Directories were used to create this timeline, but since directories are only published once per academic year, it is unclear the exact dates individuals joined or left the position. For example, if an individual first appears in a 1979 directory, they could have been appointed in September 1978 and missed the deadline for the 1978 directory printing.

Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs:

S. Stewart Gordon: 1967-1972
Acting, Clifford Clark: 1973
Acting, Kieth K. Innes: 1974
Acting, Norman Cantor: 1975
George Stein: 1976-1986
Acting, David Gitlitz: 1987
Peter Wagner: 1988-1991
Interim, Nazt Dean: 1992
Mary Ann Swain: 1993-2009
Interim, Jean-Pierre Mileur: 2010-2011
Donald Nieman: 2012-2021
Donald Hall: 2022-present (as of 2026)

Full Extent

115.75 Linear Feet (117 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains the administrative and program records of the Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs. The Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs is the chief academic administrator at Binghamton University.

Arrangement

The series are arranged into accessions, i.e. groups of material that were sent to the archive at the same time from the Academic Affairs office. The collection starts with accessions that were assigned accession numbers in chronological order, followed by unidentified accession in alphabetical order.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The Office of Academic Affairs began transferring records in 1989.

Related Materials

The Commencement records were originally transferred to the archives by the Office of the Provost of Academic Affairs, but were split into their own collection.

S. Stewart Gordon was Vice President of Academic Affairs from 1967-1973. His papers are held by the Binghamton University Archives, and they include materials related to that position.

Processing Information

In 2026, Madison White (Archival Processing Manager), listed the contents of the collection. At this time, approximately 6 linear feet of travel vouchers, reciepts, and job search records that had been identified by a previous archivist were weeded. In job search files, job descriptions for positions and reports about the departments wich were hiring were retained.