US-RPB-of1CA.D1 Guide to the Frank Durand Papers 1975-1984 Finding aid prepared by Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff with funding support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Brown University Archives
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English 10.25 Linear feet 1975-1984 The Frank Durand papers contain general office files and department files compiled when Durand was a faculty member in the Department of Hispanic Studies and an administrator at Brown University. The material is dated from 1975 to 1984. Durand, Frank

Frank Durand, Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, was born on May 12, 1932, in New York City. In 1953 he received his Bachelor's degree from Washington Square College, which was at that time the undergraduate college of New York University. He earned his Master of Arts degree from Northwestern University in 1954 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1962. Durand's academic specialties are the 19th century novel and contemporary Latin American fiction.

Durand came to Brown University in 1962 as an Instructor in Spanish. In 1972 he was promoted to Professor and served as the head of the Department of Hispanic Studies from 1972 to 1977. He was appointed an Associate Dean of the Faculty in 1978 and Associate Provost in September 1980. Durand also served on several committees at Brown, including the Committee on Admission and Financial Aid (1963-1966). From 1969 to 1971 he was the director of the Honors Program and Chairman of the Honors Council.

Durand served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. His memberships include the Modern Language Association and the American Association of University Professors.

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The Frank Durand papers contain general office files and department files compiled when Durand was a faculty member in the Department of Hispanic Studies and an administrator at Brown University. The material, dated from 1975 to 1984, has been orgainzed into four series: Series I, II and III. General files 1, 2, and 3 contain office files that are arranged alphabetically by topic. Series IV. Department files is arranged alphabetically by the name of the academic department.

The Frank Durand papers have been organized in four series: I. General files, 1 II. General files, 2 III. General files, 3 IV. Department files

Names Brown University. Dept. of Hispanic Studies. Brown University. Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Brown University. Office of the Provost. Subjects Universities and colleges--Administration Types of Materials Office files RIAMCO Browsing Term Education Administrative information

General files, 1 Series I 1978-1984 ACUP 1 1 Achievement and Recognition Awards 1 2 Advisory and Executive Committee 1 3 Employment Inquiries 1 4 Energy Conservation 1 5 Equipment Requests 1 6 1981-1982 Exchange 1 7 Faculty Action Log 1 8 1978 July -1979 June Faculty Annual Review 1 9 Faculty Advisors, Class/1985 1 10 Faculty alphabetically by area 1 11 Faculty and Instructional Development 1 12 Faculty Award 1 13 Faculty Benefits 1 14 Faculty Careers 2 15 Faculty Compensation 2 16 Faculty Development 2 17 Faculty Colloquium Series 2 18 Faculty Development Account 2 19 Faculty Forum 2 20 Faculty Head Count 2 21 Faculty Honors 2 22 Faculty Officers and Committees 2 23 Faculty Policy Group 2 24 Faculty Program External 2 25 Faculty Research Interests 2 26 Faculty Search Committee 3 27 Faculty Travel Fund 3 28 Fellowships 3 29 Female Faculty 3 30 Foreign Students and Faculty 3 31 Fringe Benefits 3 32 Forms signed in Glicksman's absence 3 33 Fulbright 3 34 Graduate Council Meeting 3 35 Graduate School 3 36 Grants 3 37 Graphic Services 3 38 Grievance Procedures 3 39 Edwin T. Haefele 3 40 Handbook 3 41 Higher Education News Item 3 42 Hospital Based Faculty 3 43 Hotel Reservations 3 44 ID Numbers 3 45 Independent Scholars, Academy of 3 46 Information Builders, Inc. FOCUS 3 47 Instructional Development Program 3 48 Instructional Time Bank 3 48a Council on International Relations 3 49 Humanities 3 50 Incentive Grants 3 51 1980-1981 Jewish Studies 3 52 Language Courses 3 53 Leaves 3 54 1980-1982 Leaves 3 55 1982-1984 Lehigh U. Visiting Committee 3 56 Libraries: Association of Research (ARL) 3 57 MRL 4 58 Management Services Search Committee 4 59 Memos: Mark Schupack 4 60 Minority Availability Pools 4 61 Minority Education 4 62 Minority Faculty 4 63 Minority Students 4 64 Miscellaneous 4 65 Monthly Appointment Analysis 4 66 1978-1979 Monthly Appointment Analysis 4 67 1979-1980 National Alumni Schools Program NASP 4 68 NEH - Applications 4 69 NEH - Seminar 4 70 New Faculty 4 71 1978-1981 Proctorship Funds 5 72 Professor Emerita-Emeritus 5 73 Arlene Gorton-Promotion 5 74 Proposals: Guidelines 5 75 Race Relations (Harvard Report) 5 76 Recommendations 5 77 Review Committee, Psychology Dept. 5 78 Dan Rose 5 79 Senior Survey 5 80 Simon, Morton J. (Simon Medal) 5 81 Social Security numbers 5 82 Stuart Sherman (Promotion) 5 83 Student Life 5 84 Student Support Program (SSP) 5 85 Survey 5 86 Task Force Report 5 87 Center for the Study of Technology and Development 5 88 Third World 5 89 Trustees 5 90 Orientation, New Trustees 5 91 1981 October 15 Undergraduate Council of Students 5 92 University Forms 5 93 University Press 5 94 University Research Council 5 95 Wolf Foundation 5 96 Women's Studies 5 97 General files, 2 Series II 1975-1982 Academic Council 6 1 1979-1980 Academic Council 6 2 1980-1981 Academic Council 6 3 1980 July -1981 June Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee (AAMC) 6 4 Awards and Benefits Committee 7 5 Bamberg U. 7 6 Budget 7 7 1979-1980 Budget 7 8 1980-1981 Budget Add-Ons 7 9 Chairmen Stipends 7 10 Chemical Dependency(Personal Assistance Program) 7 11 COFHE 7 12 Compliance Report 7 13 Computer Science Visiting Review Committee 8 14 Computers System 45 8 15 Consent Decree 8 15a Course Enrollments and Staffing Problems 8 16 Curriculum Vitae 8 17 Dean of the College 8 18 Department Chairmen 9 19 Departmental Review 9 20 1980 Faculty Development Account 9 21 1979-1981 Faculty Development Support Account 9 22 1978 July -1979 June Faculty Ages 9 23 Faculty Personnel Office 9 24 Faculty Roster 9 24a Faculty Salaries 9 25 Faculty Seminar 10 26 Focus (faculty) 10 27 Maurice Glicksman 10 28 Lilly Endowment 10 29 Luce Chair 10 30 Management Development Program 10 31 MBE Degree Program 10 32 Media Services 10 33 Mellon 10 34 1981-1982 Office of Institutional Research 10 35 PVA 10 36 Patent and Invention Policy 11 37 Professional Women's Group 11 38 Sankore Society 11 39 Rostock 11 40 Scott, Joan W. 11 41 Search: Affirmative Action Officer 11 42 Secretary-Survey 11 43 Segal, Charles Re: Benedict Chair 11 44 Space Allocations 11 45 Student Information System S.I.S. 11 46 Teacher Evaluations 11 47 1977-1978 Teaching Associates and Teaching Assistants 11 48 Teaching Evaluation (EPC Subc.) 11 49 1975-1976 Tenure 11 50 Undergraduate Enrollment 11 51 Tuition Policy 11 52 University Budget (Planning Models) 11 53 General files, 3 Series III 1979-1982 Administrative Committee for Academic Development 12 1 Alumni 12 2 American Council on Education 12 3 American Studies Association 12 4 American Universities Field Staff 12 5 Awards and Benefits 12 6 1981-1982 Board of Fellows 12 7 Brown Daily Herald 12 8 Professor Edward Beiser 12 9 Advertising Requirements Labor Certification 12 10 Brown University Press 12 11 Budget/Computer 12 12 Calendar Reform 12 13 Career Development 12 14 Chairmen's Meetings 12 15 Francis Wayland Collegium 12 16 Institute for Cognitive and Neural Research 12 17 College Teaching 12 18 Commission on Foreign Language 12 19 Commonwealth Funds 12 20 Conference Office 12 21 Committee on Faculty Reappointment and Tenure 12 22 Controller's Office 12 23 Corporation 12 24 Mark Curran - Correspondence 12 25 Dartmouth College - Educational Research 12 26 Departmental Visits 12 27 Departments - Future Developments 12 28 Committee on Development Studies 12 29 Disability Insurance 12 30 Donner Foundation 12 31 Faculty Salary Graphs 12 32 1979-1980 Group Graphs Humanities 12 33 1979-1980 Group Graphs - Physical Sciences 12 34 1979-1980 Group Graphs - Life Sciences 12 35 1979-1980 Group Graphs - Social Sciences 12 36 1979-1980 Group Graphs - Key (Department/ Department Number) 12 37 Project Requests 12 38 1980-1981 Department files Series IV 1977-1982 Afro-American Studies Program 13 1 American Civilization Program 13 2 Ancient Studies Program 13 3 Anthropology 13 4 Applied Mathematics 13 5 Art 13 6 Bio-Med 13 7 Bio-medical Ethics 13 8 Chemistry 13 9 Child Study Center 14 10 Classical Archeology and Art 14 11 Classics 14 12 Cognitive Science 14 13 Comparative Development Studies 14 14 Comparative Literature 14 15 Computer Science 14 16 Center for Dynamic Systems 14 17 East Asia Language and Area Center 14 18 Economics 14 19 Education Department 15 20 Egyptology 15 21 Energy Studies, Center for 15 22 Engineering 15 23 English Dept. 15 24 Environmental Studies, Center for 15 25 French (Review Committee) 15 26 French Studies 15 27 Geological Sciences 15 28 German Dept. 15 29 Hispanic and Italian Studies 16 30 History 16 31 History of Math 16 32 International Studies 16 33 Study of Judaism, Center for 16 34 Study of Judaism, Center for 16 35 Law and Liberal Education, Center for 16 36 Linguistics 16 37 Literature and Society 16 38 Mathematics 16 39 Medical Science 16 40 Medieval Studies 16 41 Modern Language Board 16 42 Music, Dept. of 16 43 Center for Neural Sciences 16 44 Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women 16 45 Philosophy 16 46 Physics 16 47 Political Science 17 48 Population Studies Center 17 49 Portuguese and Brazilian Studies 17 50 Psychology 17 51 Religious Studies 17 52 Renaissance Studies 17 52a Semiotics Program 17 53 Semiotics Research Center 17 54 Slavic Languages 17 55 Social Science Data Center 17 56 Sociology 17 57 Theatre Arts Program 18 58 University Courses 18 59 Urban Studies Program 18 60 Urban Studies (Review Committee) 18 61