University of Alberta Archives: Vice-President (Finance and Administration)

Office of the Vice-President (Finance and Administration)
1967-


In 1967, the Board of Governors approved changes in the University administrative structure which were intended to decentralize the administrative burden and delegate broad areas of responsibility. In that year, David Gordon Tyndall was appointed first Vice-President (Finance and Administration), responsible for formulating and implementing policy on finance and general administration. Since 1913, full charge of the University's financial affairs had rested with the Bursar. The newly created Office of the Comptroller, reporting to the Vice-President (Finance and Administration), assumed the responsibilities of the Bursar's Office in 1968.

In 1985, the President requested a review of the Offices of the Vice-Presidents (Finance and Administration) and (Facilities and Services). The Board approved a new structure in 1986, in which a new Vice-President (Administration), Allan A. Warrack, was appointed with an Associate Vice-President (Finance), Alan A. Rennie. The title was changed back to Vice-President (Finance and Adminstration) in 1991 with the appointment of Glenn Harris.

 
Successive Heads 
1967-1972	David Gordon Tyndall  
1972-1985	Lorne C. Leitch  
1986-1990	Allan A. Warrack  
1991-		Glenn Harris  
 
	Multiple media, 1947-1989, 80.64 m 
 
 	Administrative Systems Office	1970-1987 
Includes data processing; committees.  (Name changed to  
University Computing Systems, 1988.) 
 
 	Board of Governors	1967-1988 
Includes reports, correspondence and committees, including  
Finance Committee (1967-1981), and Audit Committee (1977- 
1986). 
 
 	Budget and Statistics	1969-1988 
 
 	Campus Security Services	1968-1989 
Includes occurrence reports; correspondence; personnel;  
training; policy; and litigation. 
 
 	Comptroller	1967-1988 
Includes capital accounts and special projects/program  
grants; monthly detail ledgers; correspondence. 
 
 	Contracts and agreements	1967-1989 
Includes buildings; services; special research projects; and  
affiliation agreements, including those with hospitals,  
World University Games,(Universiade '83), Alberta Liquor  
Control Board, and Faculty Club. 
 
 	Cooperative research facilities	1968-1987 
Includes TRIUMF (Tri-Universities Meson Facility), and  
WCUMBS (Western Canadian Universities Marine Biological  
Society). 
 
 	Fund Development Office	1967-1987 
Includes 3AU Fund and Alma Mater Fund Allocation Committee. 
 
 	Housing and Food Services	1968-1988 
Includes HUB, Michener Park, Lister Hall, and other student  
housing; committees, North Garneau Development; Commonwealth  
Games (1972-1980); World University Games (Universiade '83). 
 
 	Investment and Real Estate Office	1967-1988 
Includes Investment Office and committees (1967-1985);  
Killam Endowment Fund (1967-1988); land acquisitions (1967- 
1968). 
 
 	Materials Management	1959-1985 
Includes central stores; shipping and receiving; purchasing;  
and manuals (1959, 1964). 
 
 	Personnel Services	1967-1989 
Includes correspondence with staff associations, Office of  
Pensions and Benefits Administration, and Personnel Services  
and Staff Relations (PSSR) pertaining to academic and non- 
academic staff grievances, salary negotiations, schedules  
and surveys; benefits; and committees including the Non- 
Academic Position Control Committee. 
 
 	Physical Plant	1967-1989 
Includes parking administration; utilities; vehicle pool and  
garage; fire and safety. 
 
 	Planning and Development	1967-1988 
Includes space alterations and allocations; site  
development; expansions and renovation planning. 
 
 	Printing Services	1965-1988 
Includes correspondence; consultants' study (1975); space;  
finance; and history (1971). 
 
 	Professional associations	1967-1989 
Includes Canadian Association of University Business  
Officers; Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 	Public Affairs	1967-1988 
Includes correspondence; staff selection; committees. 
 
 	Radiation Hazards and Research Committees	1978-1987 
Includes materials from 1968-1969. 
 
 	Registrar	1969-1988 
 
 	Student and alumni affairs	1968-1988 
Includes Graduate Students' Association; Dean of Men; Dean  
of Women; Students' Union; fraternities; University Health  
Services; Alumni Association; awards; counselling; and  
student activism (1969). 
 
 	Technical Services	1967-1984 
Includes Department of Radio and Television. 
 
 	Universities Commission	1967-1972 
Includes correspondence and statements. 
 
 	University Bookstore	1957-1963 
Includes photographs of bookstore in Administration Building  
(12images). 
 
 	University of Alberta Foundation	1947-1984 
Includes minutes and correspondence. 
 
 	University Secretariat	1967-1989 
Includes General Faculties Council correspondence; Campus  
Law Review Committee (1973-1988); University Planning (and  
Priorities) Committee (1968-1985); Campus Development  
Committee; standing committees. Includes Deans' Council  
correspondence. 
 
See also: Vice-President (Academic); Office of the  
Comptroller 

Office of the Associate Vice-President (Facilities)
1967-

During the 1950s and 1960s the physical environment of the campus began to develop rapidly and substantially. To denote the importance that the Board of Governors placed on this situation, the office of the Vice-President (Campus Planning and Development) was created in 1967, to oversee and control all processes relating to buildings. Campus Planning had existed as a function of the President's office until this time.

The Vice-President was responsible to the President for:

  1. forecasting of space needs within an approved academic plan and the development and implementation of a long-range building program;
  2. planning of all physical construction on the campus and on all University-owned property, including the direction of planning and project architects and consultants;
  3. developing an annual building program including renovations, alterations, land purchase and utilities;
  4. property acquisition;
  5. preparation of annual budget estimates for buildings, property and capital equipment;
  6. recommendations to the Board Building Committee on all new construction matters and on capital budget estimates.

The Vice-President was:

  1. chair of the Campus Development Committee and the Space Allocation and Alterations Committee;
  2. administration representative to the Board Building Committee;
  3. responsible for the activities of the Campus Development Office; and
  4. liaison person with external bodies on matters concerning construction and building programs.

The name of the office was changed twice (Planning and Development, 1970-1980; Facilities and Services, 1980-1983). In 1983, on the retirement of Vice-President Ronald E. Phillips, the office was changed to that of Associate Vice- President (Facilities), reporting to the Vice-President (Administration). The offices of Physical Plant, Planning and Development, and Technical Services continued to report to the new Associate Vice-President (Facilities).

 
Vice-Presidents -Planning and Development 
1967-1969	Walter Holmes Worth  
1969-1974	Walter D. Neal  
1974-1975	Gordon L. Mowat (Acting) 
1975-1980	Ronald E. Phillips  
 
Vice-Presidents-Facilities and Services 
1980-1983	Ronald E. Phillips 
 
Associate Vice-Presidents -Facilities 
1983-1989	James Brian McQuitty   
1989-		Donald Grant Bellow   
 
	Multiple media, 1954-1989, 70.78 m 
 
 	Affiliated colleges	1969-1989 
 
 	Buildings	1958-1988 
Includes plans for single and married students' residences  
(1958-1967); detailed proposals, openings and tours of new  
buildings; the Memorial Organ; Committee on the Naming of  
Buildings (1976-1988). 
 
 	Capital budget	1962-1987 
Includes appropriations for faculties, departments and  
service units; renovations; equipment. 
 
 	Centres and Institutes	1969-1988 
 
 	Committees - External	1966-1980 
Includes the City-University Liaison Committee; the City  
Names Advisory Committee; the Universities Commission  
capital program. 
 
 	Committees - Planning	1954-1988 
Includes Board Building Committee (1966-1988); Long Range  
Planning Committee (1962-1985); Academic Planning/Academic  
Development Committee (1963-1974); Campus Planning/Campus  
Development Committee (1954-1975); University Planning  
Committee (1968-1978); Planning and Priorities Committee  
(1979-1982); General Faculties Council committees; space  
planning meetings (1969-1986). 
 
 	Committees - University	1968-1986 
Includes Industrial Research Park Committee (1968-1969);  
Committee on Purchases and Placement of Works of Art (1971- 
1986); Universiade '83 planning committees (1979-1983). 
 
 	Departments	1967-1989 
Includes Campus Security, Housing and Food Services,  
Physical Plant,Technical Services, Institutional Research  
and Planning; CampusDevelopment Office (now Planning and  
Development Office), 1967-1979; Vehicle Pool. 
 
 	Grounds	1961-1988 
Includes paving and landscaping; traffic and parking  
policies, rules, submissions, and appeals; University Area  
Transportation Study. 
 
 	Hazardous materials	1970-1985 
Includes Occupational Health and Safety division; storage  
and disposal of chemical wastes; firearms control. 
 
 	Real property	1964-1987 
Acquisitions by gift, bequest or purchase; maps and  
inventories; legal agreements for easements.  Includes North  
Garneau, the University Farm and West 240, the Breton Plots,  
and Fort Assiniboine. 
 
 	Utilities	1966-1988 
Includes service tunnels; external agreements. 
 
Includes records of the Vice-President and the Assistant to  
the Vice-President.  Includes files brought forward from the  
President's office in 1967. 
 
See also: Office of the Vice-President (Administration);  
Office of the Comptroller