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Ryerson Centre files

File contains the Ryerson Centre and Ryerson Union files. It includes correspondence, reports, memorandums, by-laws, a copy of the pre-programme study, proposals, and financial statements.

Student Union financial matters files

File contains the files on Student Union financial matters. It includes financial statements, a copy of the students' union constitution, estimates, petitions, correspondence, budgets, and recommendations.

Student Union files

File contains Student Union files. It includes job descriptions, constitutions, correspondence, reports, financial statements, budgets, member listings, agendas, newsletter clippings, and a copy of the student handbook.

"Alcohol and Ryerson - A Review" report

A review of Ryerson's alcohol policies and procedures with draft resolutions for changes. The report followed the coroner's inquest recommendations stemming from the accidental death of a high school student at the ferry docks after attending the Ryerson Picnic at the Toronto Islands.

Ryerson Presidents' photographs

File contains one b&w photograph of Ryerson president Terry Grier and six photographs of Ryerson president Walter Pitman. All photographs are mounted on foamcore.

President's Council records

File contains the President's Council records. It includes reports from the president, correspondence, agendas, a listing of the council members, and meeting minutes. It also includes reports on the Trimester system.

Ryerson Community Task Force

The material in this collection has been separated into two files: File #1 (Committee Records): This file folder received from University Advancement consists of correspondence, agendas/minutes (both hand written and typed) of committee meetings, draft reports/recommendations and summary of recommendations. File #2 (Report/Recommendations/Responses).

Task Force on Institute Services

File contains the Task Force on Institute Services' records. It includes a description of the task force, correspondence, a listing of its members, agendas, meeting minutes, proposals, and reports.

Brown leather swivel arm chairs

Two brown leather chairs on casters:

RG 12.78.01 Used with the Egerton Ryerson desk by President Brian Segal (1980-1988). “Arm Tilter” with four legs on casters. Re-upholstered by Krug Furniture Co., Kitchener, Ont. Brown colour. 45" high.

RG 12.78.02 Swivel desk chair believed to have been used by Egerton Ryerson during his years at St. James Square as Ontario’s Chief Superintendent of Education. Brown leather upholstery with open back spindle design. Four legs on casters. 35" high

Lakehead University Silver Jubilee gift package

One gift package given to Ryerson University by Lakehead University. Gift comes in a nylon carrying case and includes: 'A Northern Vision - The Development of Lakehead University' (hard cover book 1987); a ballpoint pen; a desk calendar; and a lapel pin.

Certificate to Terry Grier in recognition of University status

A framed certificate presented by the Ryerson Alumni to President T. Grier in honour Ryerson's achievement of university status. Presentation was made at Skydome Stadium on the occasion of Ryerson's 1993 Homecoming celebration, by CFTO-TV sportscaster and RTA '79 graduate, Suneel Joshi, on September 10.

Gifts from Foreign Visitors

A collection of 19 colourful and interesting gifts presented to Ryerson from foreign visitors during President Terence Grier's term of office.Items include: books, audio cassettes, medallions, a handpainted gourd, tie clip, lapel pin, picture frame, watercolour, silver tea/coffee server, framed artwork, and a portfolio/tote bag.

Framed Partnership in Product Design Certificate

Certificate recognizing the partnership between the University of Toronto, Ryerson Polytechnical University, and the Ontario College of Art in research and design. It is signed by the three school presidents.
The document reads:

"Partnership in Product Design
April 26, 1994
This document recognizes the activities of the Creative Design Research Unit Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Toronto Since 1986 it has developed partnership initiatives in education, outreach, research and development in various aspects of product design. This involved co-operative teaching and interdisciplinary project work with other University of Toronto Departments, the Industrial Design Department - Ontario College of Art, Departments of Business, Marketing and Engineering - Ryerson Polytechnic University and participation of professionals in various relevant disciplines, manufacturers and entrepreneurs.
This document also recognizes the interdependence of various disciplines and methodologies which must be linked to interact in design research, product development, and in successful manufacturing and marketing of new products and systems, with significant economic benefit to the Canadian and Ontario industrial sectors and to the export potential of innovative, well designed products in a global context This document also records agreement to encourage and foster the continuance of partnership between the signing institutions in this type of endeavour and also to involve other institutions, professional associations, corporations and governmental interests that may be able to participate in the future."

Framed collages from Roberta Bondar's space mission

Dr. Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman and second Canadian to travel into Space when she flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery in January, 1992. From the early 1990s, Dr. Bondar worked with the former Centre for Advanced Technology Education (CATE) at Ryerson in researching and investigating bloodflow under weightlessness conditions, as well as experiment methodology, modelling, evaluation, data collection and analysis through a contract with the Canadian Space Agency. Her research methods were applied on her flight aboard the Discovery shuttle. Dr. Bondar received a Ryerson Fellowship in 1990 and became the University's first Professor of Distinction in 1993.Two framed and signed collages of photographs and crests, including a small cotton patch bearing the Ryerson logo that was in the shuttle's payload, were presented to Ryerson President, Terry Grier, in a special visit, lecture and presentation in 1992. The montages were deposited in the University Archives in 1995 by President Grier, upon the completion of his term of office.

The Dream That Fagged Out sculpture by Julius Damasdy

This sculptural object was created by Canadian-Hungarian artist, Julius Damasdy and entered into the Ontario Society of Artists show at the Toronto Art Gallery in 1967 and winning the award for best sculpture.

Dr. Franc Joubin, a founding member of Ryerson's newly formed Board of Governors, promised to purchase whichever sculpture won best place in its category.

The sculpture stood in the President's Office and later in the Library where it stood on guard in the 6th floor book stacks. It was finally banished to the Ryerson Archives.

The sculpture has the artist's name on its base, "Damasdy," and is also known as Peter.

President's Committees documentation files

File contains documentation files from various President's Committees:

  • President's Advisory Committee on Women
  • Presidential Review Committee
  • President's Committee on Education Television
  • President's Committee on Library Development
  • President's Committee on the Trimester System
  • President's Advisory Committee on Priorities
  • President's Advisory Committee on Student Life
  • President's Liaison Committee
  • President's Working Group on Distance Education
  • Principal's Committee on Development of Teaching Competence
  • President's Advisory Committee on Student Services

Proposal and reports to organizational reform going into the 1980s

Ryerson's Board of Governors engaged Hickling-Johnston Limited in April 1979 to recommend an appropriate overall organizational structure enabling Ryerson to operate successfully in the 1980s.

Documentation includes :

  • Proposal : Organization Structure Review : Finding The Tough But Positive Solutions, February, 1979.
  • Report : Organization Testing Workshop : Feedback Report, August 9, 1979.
  • Report : A Path to Organizational Reform at Ryerson, September 19, 1979.
  • Response : Presidential Response To Hickling-Johnston's Report, October 17, 1979.
  • Miscellaneous memoranda from senior administrators, 1979-1980.

Future Directions for Postsecondary Education brief

Included with Ryerson's brief to the Advisory Panel on Future Directions for Ontario's Postsecondary Education, is the government's discussion paper and the Advisory Panel's final report entitled, "Excellence, Accessibility, Responsibility - Summary and Recommendations", and issued in December, 1996.

Homophobia and Heterosexism Issues Advisory Committee records

File contains the Homophobia and Heterosexism Issues Advisory Committee records. It includes the committee's terms of reference, correspondence, a questionnaire, and a copy of "Prejudice to Pride - Attitudes Related to Homophobia & Heterosexism within the Ryerson Community: A Quantitative Study".

Posters

The file consists of posters for Budget Update and Presentation (1996) and Town Hall with Sheldon Levy (2012).

5/21 Security

File contains correspondence regarding security at Ryerson and guidelines about irregular occupancy of premises.

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