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The records were transferred to non-current records storage by the Office of the Vice President for Research and from there to the University Archives in 2005.
This collection was processed using the basic file system of the Office; however, the files were organized in a manner to make it more accesible to potential researchers. This included putting items in chronological and alphabetical order when it was seen as beneficial to the accesibility of the collection.
The entire collection is open for research.
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Separate record groups exist for the Office of Research, the office of Graduate Studies. The Records of the Office of the President also contain information on these topics.
Records of the Office of the Vice President for Research, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
The Office of the Vice President for Research was instituted at the University of Central Florida during the 1988-1989 academic year, becoming separate from the previous Office of Research and Graduate Studies. The Office is responsible for all the research activities at the University, both those taking place on campus and with UCF affiliated instutions, as well as partnerships with outside institutions. This Office has evolved over the years to become the Office of Research and Commercialization, which is still headed by the Vice President of Research.
This collection is organized according to the file system of the Office of the Vice President for Research. The original system of organization was largely maintained; series include read files, correspondence files, partnership files, UCF department and institute files and administrative files.
The collection encompasses files from of the Office of the Vice President for Research from 1989 to 1993, during the term of Michael Bass. The files also cover the brief interim Vice Presidency of Leslie Ellis, who temporarily took over the Vice Presidency in early 1993. The collection is divided into five series, which cover the scope of the adminstrative responsibilities of the vice president of research as well as the research activities of the university
Series I: Read Files, 1991-1993, consists of read-files, or files that were created for the informational benefit of Bass. These files give a brief glance of the activities of the University, both in and out of the scope of research, each month from January 1991 to August 1993.
Series II: Correspondence, 1989-1993, contains the correspondence of Michael Bass. This includes personal and press correspondence, as well as correspondence with University faculty and foreign correspondence with potential students and researchers.
Series III: Partnership Files, 1989-1992, consists of documents regarding the University's partnerships with outside institutions. These include correspondence, meeting minutes and partnership contratcts with various local, state, national and international corporations and institutions.
Series IV: UCF Department and Institute Files, 1988-1992, consists of files related to UCF departments and institutes that fell under the administration of the vice president of research. These files contain correspondence, meeting minutes and reports related to UCF departments and UCF affiliated institutions.
Series V: Administrative Files, 1989-1992, contain the adminstrative files of Michael Bass. As the Vice President of Research, Bass was the adminstrator of many aspects of the research at the Univerisity, and this series covers his range of responsibilities. The series is divided into three subseries of administration: general, fellowships and councils and committees.
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Series I consists of read-files, or files that were created for the informational benefit of Bass. These files give a brief glance of the activities of the University, both in and out of the scope of research, each month from January 1991 to August 1993. They include correspondence between other University faculty and staff and outside departments or institutes, meeting minutes from meetings and conferences that Bass did not attend, and departmental documents such as newsletters or reports.
Series II contains the correspondence of Michael Bass. This includes his personal correspondence and correspondence with the press, as well as all of his correspondence with Univeristy faculty, which is seperated out by individual and alphabatized. This series also includes foreign correspondence that Bass had with people at universities around the world, which was generally concerning individuals being accepted by the University and coming to do research.
Series III consists of documents regarding the University's partnerships with outside institutions. As a research university, UCF holds many partnerships with corporations and institutions, and these files cover a large portion of the scope of those partnerships. The files include such documents as correspondence, partnership contracts, informational literature on the institution and meeting minutes. These files are related to local and state partnerships with institutions such as the Brevard County Research and Development Board and the Florida Space Grant Consortium, national partnerships with Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Optical Society of America and an international partnership with the Moscow Physical Technical Institute.
Series IV consists of files related to UCF departments and institutes that fell under the administration of the vice president of research. These files contain correspondence, meeting minutes and reports related to UCF departments, such as the Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics departments, and UCF affiliated institutions. These instiutions include entities such as Central Florida Research Park, the Center for Research in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), the Division of Sponsored Research. the Florida Solar Energy Center and the Institute for Simulation and Training.
Series V contains the adminstrative files of Michael Bass. As the Vice President of Research, Bass was the adminstrator of many aspects of the research at the Univerisity, and this series covers his range of responsibilities. The series is divided into three subseries of administration: general, fellowships and councils and committees. General files contain information regarding things such as the annual report, auditing and financial information and the search for the associate vice president of research. Fellowship files contain information regarding the many fellowships that Bass supervised, including the UCF Distinguished Researcher Award and Departmental Development Grants. The subseries councils and committees contains meeting minutes from various groups including the Patent Committee, the Research Council and the Research Foundation. This subseries also includes meeting minutes from the State University System's meetings for the vice presidents of r! esearch.