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Student Committee on Undergraduate Education Records

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Call Number:
UPS 58
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
4 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1965-1994 (inclusive) and 1965-1994 (bulk)
Creator:
University of Pennsylvania. Student Committee on Undergraduate Education
Abstract:
Founded in 1965, The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education is an autonomous and apolitical organization whose suggestions and proposals over the past three decades have initiated some of the most influential projects in Penn's history. The records of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education reflect the full range of concerns of the group from the administration of the office to a variety of the Committee's finished projects.

Founded in 1965, at a time when students had little control over their own education, The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education is the oldest existing branch of student government at the University of Pennsylvania. SCUE is an autonomous and apolitical organization whose suggestions and proposals over the past three decades have initiated some of the most influential projects in Penn's history. These include course and professor evaluations, coeducation of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freshman Seminar Programs, Fall Break, Pass/Fail grading, Individualized Majors, Community Living Programs, and the recent Undergraduate Advisory Boards in undergraduate departments.

SCUE takes as its purview any issue that affects undergraduate education or the intellectual atmosphere at Penn. The Committee works to enhance and expand the curriculum opportunities, advising, and the overall quality of the undergraduate academic experience. This is done by serving as advisors to the administration, and as advocates for the student voice. All efforts are predicated on the tenet that undergraduates must have a say in the academic programs of which they are most integrally a part.

In addition to addressing specific issues, SCUE sponsors Take a Professor to Lunch Week, the Course Major Fair, and Education Week. The Committee is also publisher of The Practical Scholar : A Student's Guide to Academics at Penn, and Perspectives : Thoughts on a Liberal Education. In the past the Committee also published the Undergraduate Course Guide, or the "SCUE guide," which is now handled by another student group. Currently some of the Committee's projects include the development of interdisciplinary University Minors, an attempt to secure more reading days for undergraduates, a proposal for a rhetoric program entitles Speaking Across the University, the development of a common freshman course, and a comprehensive review of academic advising at Penn. Work on the 1995 White Paper on Undergraduate Education is under way.

SCUE's membership consists of thirty-seven undergraduates from all four schools who are selected by a six-member Steering Committee. The Steering Committee is elected by a full Committee vote each January. The Committee accepts applications for membership from freshman and sophomores both in the fall and in the spring semesters.

(Excerpted from: What is SCUE? Written by the Committee)

The records of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education reflect the full range of concerns of the group from the administration of the office to a variety of the Committee's finished projects. There are files on academic integrity, course curriculum, issues of diversity, faculty advising, information on majors, the grading system, undergraduate life, and the various committees with which SCUE has worked to accomplish many of its objectives. Much of the material served as source material for the committee's working "White Papers" including the run of clippings, 1965-1989, from the Daily Pennsylvania. Represented in these records is a complete and rich history of a relatively young, but important, student organization dedicated to improving the academic quality of life at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Records for the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE) were transferred to the University Archives and Records Center on May 16, 1994.

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University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Theresa R. Snyder and James Curtiss Ayers
Finding Aid Date
September 1994
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Academic Integrity, 1982-1988.
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Academic Integrity, 1988-1989.
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Academic Integrity Various Schools.
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Academic Integrity Various Schools.
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Academic Integrity Various Schools.
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Academic Integrity Various Schools.
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Academic Integrity Various Schools.
Box 1 Folder 7
Academic Integrity Various Schools.
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Academic Penn.
Box 1 Folder 9
Academic Planning and Budget Committee, 1986.
Box 1 Folder 10
Admission Policies For Undergraduate Schools, 1967.
Box 1 Folder 11
Admissions.
Box 1 Folder 12
Admissions, Exit, Transfers, 1983-1985.
Box 1 Folder 13
Advising.
Box 1 Folder 14
Advising Material (general).
Box 1 Folder 15
Advising: Other Schools, 1980.
Box 1 Folder 16
Advising: SEAS.
Box 1 Folder 17
American Assoc. of Univ. Students Penn's Problem, 1980-1983.
Box 1 Folder 18
Application Materials (SCUE), 1984.
Box 1 Folder 19
Brown University, 1990.
Box 1 Folder 20
Budget, 1981-1983.
Box 1 Folder 21
Budget, 1986-1988.
Box 1 Folder 22
Budget Manual, 1979.
Box 1 Folder 23
Calendar Committee: Fall Break, 1983-1984.
Box 1 Folder 24
Charter Of The Student Committee On Undergraduate.
Box 1 Folder 25
College Of Arts and Sciences Biennial Report, 1987.
Box 1 Folder 26
College Curriculum, 1988-1990.
Box 1 Folder 27
College House Programs, 1983-1984.
Box 1 Folder 28
College Undergraduate Distribution, 1987-1988.
Box 1 Folder 29
Columns Magazine: Survey of Undergraduates, 1982.
Box 1 Folder 30
Committee On Undergraduate Education, 1988-1989.
Box 1 Folder 31
Computer Articles, 1986.
Box 1 Folder 32
Computer Work, 1985-1986.
Box 1 Folder 33
Concept of Campus Center, 1990.
Box 1 Folder 34
Congressional Research Service: Education, 1980-1991.
Box 1 Folder 35
Constitution Student Committee On Undergraduate.
Box 1 Folder 36
Contacts : Graduates With Individual Majors.
Box 1 Folder 37
Correspondence: Extramural And Alumni, 1989.
Box 1 Folder 38
Council Of Undergraduate Deans, 1986.
Box 1 Folder 39
Course Guide Evaluations, 1983-1984.
Box 2 Folder 1
Curriculum: Outside Voices, 1984.
Box 2 Folder 2
Curriculum: SEAS, 1983-1984.
Box 2 Folder 3
Daily Pennsylvanian, 1965.
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Daily Pennsylvanian, 1983-1984.
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Daily Pennsylvanian, 1985-1989.
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Daily Pennsylvanian, 1985-1989.
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Daily Pennsylvanian, 1985-1989.
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Daily Pennsylvanian, 1988-1989.
Box 2 Folder 9
Dean's List.
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Diversity, 1987.
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Diversity Education, 1988-1989.
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Diversity Planning Other Schools, 1988.
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Diversity Requirement (CAS), 1988.
Box 2 Folder 14
Diversity Subcommittee, 1988.
Box 2 Folder 15
Divinity School.
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Economics Survey, 1977-1979.
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Economics Survey, 1982-1983.
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Economics Survey, 1983.
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Economics Survey, 1985-1987.
Box 2 Folder 20
Faculty Advising 1988.
Box 2 Folder 21
Faculty Advising : (CAS).
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Faculty Advising : SCUE Paper, 1988.
Box 2 Folder 23
Faculty Advising: Spring, 1988.
Box 2 Folder 24
Faculty Advising: Subcommittee Report, 1988.
Box 2 Folder 25
Faculty Arts and Sciences Distributional Requirements, 1981.
Box 2 Folder 26
Faculty Council On Undergraduate Education, 1983-1984.
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Faculty Council On Undergraduate Education, 1983-1984.
Box 2 Folder 28
Faculty Council On Undergraduate Education.
Box 2 Folder 29
Faculty In Residence, 1984-1986.
Box 2 Folder 30
Faculty Resource Guide.
Box 2 Folder 31
Faculty Student Interaction.
Box 2 Folder 32
Finals Policy, 1983.
Box 2 Folder 33
Financial Reports, 1979-1984.
Box 2 Folder 34
Fraternities and Sororities Annual AFFair, 1982-1983.
Box 2 Folder 35
General Requirement Courses, 1988-1989.
Box 2 Folder 36
Governale, Kathleen T,. 1988-1989.
Box 2 Folder 37
Graduation Requirements.
Box 2 Folder 38
History of SCUE, 1974-1986.
Box 2 Folder 39
Individualized Majors.
Box 2 Folder 40
International Education, 1985-1988.
Box 3 Folder 1
Interschool Minors.
Box 3 Folder 2
Intramural Correspondence.
Box 3 Folder 3
Ivar, Ivar, Ivar.
Box 3 Folder 4
Maxine School Talk Show 900 Audio Cassette.
Box 3 Folder 5
Minorities.
Box 3 Folder 6
Minorities University of Pennsylvania Document.
Box 3 Folder 7
Minority Presence, 1987.
Box 3 Folder 8
Montgomery MD. Human Relations Training.
Box 3 Folder 9
National Science Foundation, 1988.
Box 3 Folder 10
Newspaper Clipping, 1981-1986.
Box 3 Folder 11
New Student Week Educational Programs, 1987-1988.
Box 3 Folder 12
New Student Week General Information.
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New Student Week Diversity Day, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 14
Nominations And Elections Committee.
Box 3 Folder 15
NROTC, 1984.
Box 3 Folder 16
Nursing, School of, 1986-1990.
Box 3 Folder 17
OFF Campus Living Annual Report, 1983-1984.
Box 3 Folder 18
OFFice Space.
Box 3 Folder 19
Outside Publications, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 20
Pass/Fail, 1969.
Box 3 Folder 21
Pass/Fail Activity, 1982.
Box 3 Folder 22
Pass/Fail History.
Box 3 Folder 23
Penn College Houses, 1988.
Box 3 Folder 24
Penn Town Meeting 3, 1994.
Box 3 Folder 25
Perspectives, 1985.
Box 3 Folder 26
Perspectives, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 27
Perspectives II Correspondences, 1983-1988.
Box 3 Folder 28
Perspectives II Drafts of Essays, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 29
Perspectives II Final Drafts of Essays, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 30
Perspectives Week.
Box 3 Folder 31
Planning, 1980-1992.
Box 3 Folder 32
Plus/Minus Grading, 1982.
Box 3 Folder 33
Plus/Minus Grading, 1982.
Box 3 Folder 34
Plus/Minus Sub-Committee.
Box 3 Folder 35
Practical Scholar.
Box 3 Folder 36
Practical Scholar Student's Guide To Academics At.
Box 3 Folder 37
Provost Smith Seminars, 1986.
Box 3 Folder 38
Race Survey, 1987-1988.
Box 3 Folder 39
Registrar Information, 1988.
Box 3 Folder 40
Registration Course Timetables.
Box 3 Folder 41
Residential Planning for the 21st Century.
Box 3 Folder 42
Residential Planning, 1993.
Box 3 Folder 43
Resource Guide.
Box 3 Folder 44
Schools Other Than Penn.
Box 3 Folder 45
SCUE Receipt, 1990-1992.
Box 4 Folder 1
SCUE Report, 1966.
Box 4 Folder 2
SCUE Report, 1971.
Box 4 Folder 3
SCUE Week, 1987.
Box 4 Folder 4
SCUE Working Paper Feedback.
Box 4 Folder 5
Seal.
Box 4 Folder 6
SEAS : English Fluency, 1980.
Box 4 Folder 7
Seminar Information.
Box 4 Folder 8
Strategies For Implementing Change: An Experimental.
Box 4 Folder 9
Sub-Committee Worksheets.
Box 4 Folder 10
Take A Professor To Lunch Week, 1986-1990.
Box 4 Folder 11
Teaching Evaluation Forms.
Box 4 Folder 12
Teaching Sub-Committee Report.
Box 4 Folder 13
Technology: SEAS.
Box 4 Folder 14
Typewriter.
Box 4 Folder 15
Undergraduate Assembly, 1982.
Box 4 Folder 16
Undergraduate Assembly, 1990.
Box 4 Folder 17
Undergraduate Assemble Constitution, 1978-1981.
Box 4 Folder 18
Undergraduate Deans, Council Of Spring, 1988.
Box 4 Folder 19
Undergraduate Education, 1980.
Box 4 Folder 20
Undergraduate Education, 1988.
Box 4 Folder 21
Undergraduate Education Report, 1989.
Box 4 Folder 22
University Council, 1981-1982.
Box 4 Folder 23
University Council, 1982-1985.
Box 4 Folder 24
University Council, 1988.
Box 4 Folder 25
Vice Provost University Life, 1973.
Box 4 Folder 26
Vice Provost University Life, 1973.
Box 4 Folder 27
Vice Provost University Life, 1984.
Box 4 Folder 28
West Philadelphia. Improvement Corps, 1989.
Box 4 Folder 29
What is SCUE?.
Box 4 Folder 30
White Paper College of Arts and Sciences, 1974-1993.
Box 4 Folder 31
White Paper Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching, 1991.
Box 4 Folder 32
White Paper International Study, 1992.
Box 4 Folder 33
White Paper Liberal Arts, 1985.
Box 4 Folder 34
White Paper Minors and Minor Programs, 1994.
Box 4 Folder 35
White Paper Originals, 1982-1984.
Box 4 Folder 36
White Paper Originals, 1985-1990.
Box 4 Folder 37
White Paper Reactions, 1985.
Box 4 Folder 38
White Paper Undergraduate Education, 1985.
Box 4 Folder 39
White Paper Undergraduate Education, 1990.
Box 4 Folder 40
Writing Requirements (CAS), 1981-1988.
Box 4 Folder 41

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