File consists of reports from or regarding: BUFA Committee to examine methods of selecting Deans and Directors; salary scales for teachers in Canadian Universities and Colleges; Brandon University retreat; President's report to BUFA annual meeting; library; Delegate to President's Committee established to review the salaries of non-academic staff; Senate long-range planning sub-committee on internal structure; Presidential selection committee; BUFA membership committee; "A Proposal to Deliver Post-secondary Education to Northern Communities Using a Video-Tape-Recorder System, Contemporary Programming Strategies, and Relevant Course Materials"; Committee on faculty-administration relations; "The Aims of a University"; BUFA Committee re criteria of Promotions Committee; enrolment; Board/BUFA Committee for a University club; lounges and other campus amenities; General Pensions Committee; BUFA White Paper; BUFA Committee on professionals; and the Promotions Committee.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 6
File consists of memos, a list of faculty publications etc. (1972), a Credit Extension remuneration agreement (1974), information on a statistics class, a petition regarding Bobcat football, Athletics workload rationale, a proposal for the History Department, proposed terms of reference - Dean of Arts, proposed terms of reference - departmental chairman/head, and the report of the Economics Department for the academic year 1972-1973.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 8
File consists of correspondence, a brief on problems of university level finance (prepared by the Manitoba Association of Students), the Canadian Union of Students - Brandon University report on athletic facilities, BUSU 1966 financial statement, BUSU president's month end report and a news release.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 4: Office of the Vice-President
4.2 Office of the Vice-President (Administration & Finance)
Box 4
See RG 6, series 9 (Department of Extension) for biographical information on R.B. Inch.
Custodial History
R.B. Inch's records were passed on to the McKee Archives following his death. It is presumed that the executer of his estate donated the collection after his passing in 1983.
Scope and Content
This collection is heavily influenced by Inch's professional and organizational life. Most heavily represented is literature associated with Inch's involvement with the League of Nations Society in Canada during the 1930s. It also appears that Inch paid close attention to United Nations' policy following World War II, from ca. 1945-1970. There are numerous items devoted to both Canadian and international political and diplomatic issues, with particular emphasis on British politics in the immediate post-war period. As one would expect from his involvement in the National Research Council and League of Nations Society, the core of the fonds is a study in two major themes. The first theme is of the post-WWII policy pursued by Canada and Britain and, secondly, the growth and development of United Nations' policy following the collapse of the League of Nations. There is some periphery material of general interest to Canadian history and Canadian university publications, but for the most part the material can be classified into one of the two preceding themes.
The collection includes a manuscript prepared by R.B. Inch entitled "Parliament Will Decide: A Chronicle of the Drift to War and of an Effort to Help Avert it" (1947). The manuscipt is edited but out of order.
The balance of the collection consists of accumulated documents gathered over the course of Inch's lifetime from outside sources. These include: newspaper clippings and whole newspapers from publications in Winnipeg, Brandon, Toronto, Calgary and London; United Nations' pamphlets conerning a broad range of issues, ranging from the question of East Indian independence to annual policy directives of the organization; various magazines including copies of "Interdependence," which Inch once edited; articles taken from the publication "Life" concerning important figures of the time period; numerous books and textbooks concerning the political formation of post-war Europe; quarterlies from academic institutions, such as the University of Toronto; some material, primarily pamphlets, concerning R.B. Inch's involvement in Amnesty International after his retirement; and documents relating to post-war reconstruction in Britain.
Notes
Finding aid for the R.B. Inch fonds was prepared for the McKee Archives by Matthew Palmer (2003). The majority of the boxes in the collection contain a typewritten inventory detailing the contents of each container. As well, the preponderance of the files within the boxes are further subdivided by either a typwritten inventory itemizing the material contained within each dossier or a handwritten note on the outside of the folder describing the contents.
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.10 R.B. Inch
Related Material
Additional materials related to R.B. Inch may be found in RG 6, Series 9 (Department of Extension). There is also a related group of records from R.B. Inch that can be found in the Library and Archives of Canada under the heading Rober Boyer Inch fonds. This fonds consists of 4.05 m of textual records dating from ca. 1923-1981.
