Box 45

Contains report on the shortage of supporting staff at Rutgers and statistics in supporting staff study file.

Contains correspondence and memoranda regarding a change in the tax exempt status of that teaching assistants. The assistants had been exempt from income tax on the grounds that their teaching fulfills a degree requirement, but federal tax-court rulings led to the loss of exemption.

Contains material related to the status of the Council of Teacher Education in light of changes at Rutgers, letter regarding planned report to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education regarding Rutgers inadequacies, other letters concerning status of teacher education and School of Education.

Contains letters from public to in reference to the "teach-in" protesting the Vietnam War that occurred at Rutgers in April 1965, also contains Schlatter's responses.

Contains discussion of possibility of offering "television courses" (courses over closed-circuit television), what the needs of such courses would be, meeting minutes University Committee on Television and Other Educational Media, Report on the installation of closed circuit television at Rutgers, proposals for courses.

Contains correspondence including that of Newark Dean William N. Gilliland and C. Lowell Lees, Chairman of Dramatic Art and Speech, regarding possibility of Rutgers supporting a professional resident theater company at Newark, possibility of Graduate School of Theater Arts at Newark.

Contains documents regarding the formation and planned operation of the Theatre Six center for the performing arts in Metuchen and correspondence regarding apporintment of a Rutgers representative on its advisory council (Clarence Turner, Professor of Romance Languages).

Contains description of Project Themis, a Department of Defense program designed to strengthen science and engineering at universities. Also contains correspondence regarding Rutgers proposals for this program.

Contains correspondence of Associate Professor of Education Harry V. Barnard regarding possibility of establishing Thomas Paine Lecture Series at Rutgers.

Contains discussions of titles such as "specialist" for some teaching staff, and different functions of those considered "directors of academic units of the University."