Correspondence-- memorandum-- recommendations, 1944

This collection is comprised of six series: committees, administrative, financial, miscellanous general faculty, faculty handbooks, and publications.

Committees are organized alphabetically by subject and contain such subject matter as minutes and reports from various meeting on student affairs, admissions, campus life, and faculty affairs. These committees are subsets of the larger faculty senate and therefore have their on memoranda and correspondence.

The administrative series is comprised of information of faculty welfare and tenture as well as a subseries comprising the files and memoranda of the executive board. This series also contains information on the Faculty Senate Constitution, including the original draft of the 1922 Constitution as well as the further amendments and rewrites.

Financial records consist of expenditures in the form of cancelled checks and the University check book. It also contains he records of the Treasurer as well as the ledgers and auditor's reports. **The file on the University checkbook was closed in 1939.**

The miscellanous series contains memoranda on different council meetings. It is arranged by date.

The faculty handbook series contains the revisions of different faculty handbooks throughout the faculty senate's history. It also contains information on the faculty benefit plans and healthcare. These are arranged by date. The publications series contains copies of "Publications, Artistic Productions, and Professional Activities" books that lists the scholarly output of CMU faculty, as well as the "Biographical Information on Faculty and Senior Research Personnel" which briefly lists biographical information, research interests and scholarly output of faculty.