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Contains correspondence, meeting minutes, budget records, and other materials related to the Academic Vice President about academic programs, faculty hiring and review, research, and strategic planning and administration of academic resources. The majority of the materials document the activities of the academic units of Brigham Young University. Dates range from 1953 to 2007.

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence discussing the establishment and daily routine of the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies as well as the Division of Continuing Education's Study in Jerusalem program that preceded the establishment of the Jerusalem Center. It also contains participant evaluations of this study abroad program. Also included are information packets given to students and parents before the departure for the Center and schedules for the semester. The packets contain...

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Records include student directories, newspaper clippings, transcripts for radio broadcasts, Latter-day Saint proselyting materials, and correspondence relating to the Jerusalem Center and Latter-day Saint presence in Israel. The bulk of the materials deals with the controversy surrounding the construction of the Jerusalem Center.