Department of Independent Study Programs correspondence
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of former directors of the Independent Study office.
Dates
- Creation: 1981-1987
Creator
- Brigham Young University. Department of Independent Study Programs (creator, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Restricted. Closed for 35 years from the date of creation of the records, and thereafter open to the public in accordance with the University Archives Policy.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Department of Independent Study Programs correspondence must be obtained from the Permissions & Licensing Office of the University and the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Administrative History
The Department of Independent Study Programs (1979- ) is a department at Brigham Young University.
The Department of Independent Study Programs was established in 1979. It was previously known as Home Study. Independent Study is under the supervision of a director who reports directly to the dean of the Division of Continuing Education. The directors of the department are as follows: Orson B. Roper (1981-1982), Richard C. Eddy (1982-1985), Ralph A. Rowley (1985-1994), R. Dwight Laws (1994-2009), and Justin K. Johansen (2009- ).
Through its Independent Study program, BYU offers more than 300 college-level credit courses, providing practical and convenient solutions for students with scheduling problems and for working students, armed forces personnel, and others who cannot take all their classes in residence.
Extent
7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Other Finding Aids
A more detailed finding aid is available in print in the repository.
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/UA967.xml
Custodial History
Transferred from Records Management Office, June 2002.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred; Records Management Office; 2002.
Appraisal
Departmental records (University Archives collecting policy, July 2003).
Processing Information
Processed; J. Gordon Daines III and Natalie Clark; June, 2002.
Subject
- Brigham Young University. Department of Independent Study Programs -- Archives (Organization)
- Brigham Young University -- Faculty (Organization)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Register of the Department of Independent Study Programs correspondence
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- J. Gordon Daines III and Natalie Clark
- Date
- June, 2002
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo UT 84602 US