The Scholarships, Bursaries, Medals and Awards Committee of Senate consists of one member and one alternate elected by and from each Faculty/School, one member and one alternate elected by and from the Seante, and the BGS Coordinator or designate. Only in the absence of the elected members shall the alternates have full powers to participate as the regular member. The University Registrar is the Secretary.
The responsibilities of this committee are to: make decisions on the awarding of the various scholarships, bursaries, medals and awards of Brandon University and forward decisions to Senate for information; make recommendations concerning the addition of new schoarships, bursaries, medals and awards; make recommendations concerning the terms of reference under which scholarships, bursaries, medals and awards are to be offered and to ensure that these terms are adhered to in accordance with the donor's wishes; and to make recommendations concerning the monitoring of trust accounts related to scholarships, bursaries and awards.
Custodial History
Records transfered to the McKee Archives from the Senate Office, Brandon University on March 1, 1998.
Scope and Content
Sub sub series consists of minutes of the Scholarships, Bursaries, Medals and Awards Committee, including reports to Senate and decisions to award scholarships; files detailing the details of scholarships previoulsy awarded by the University but currently not awarded; records concerning the awarding of Board of Governors Entrance scholarships; and records concerning various "awards nights" and "awards programs."
Box 1: Scholarship Committee minutes 1963-1967, March 1969 - May 1972
Box 2: Scholarship Committee minutes May 1972 - October 1974
Box 3: Scholarship Committee minutes November 19, 1974 - September 22, 1976
Box 4: Scholarship Committee minutes October 20, 1976 - April 30, 1979
Box 5: Scholarship Committee minutes June 6, 1979 - May 1, 1981
Box 6: Scholarship Committee minutes June 4, 1981 - May 4, 1983
Box 7: Scholarship Committee minutes June 21, 1983 - October 18, 1984
Box 8: Scholarship Committee minutes November 22, 1984 - December 11, 1985
Box 9: Scholarship Committee minutes January 28, 1986 - Nobember 25, 1986
Box 10: Scholarship Committee minutes January 15, 1987 - July 28, 1987
Box 11: Scholarship Committee minutes September 8, 1987 - Nobember 27, 1987
Box 12: General scholarship files 1959-1971, correspondence concerning Entrance Scholarships 1958-1967, 1971-1974
Box 13: Recipients - Brandon College and Brandon University Entrance Scholarships 1966-1967, 1974-1982
Box 14: Scholarship Committee files pertaining to scholarships and awards previoulsy offered but no longer active.
Box 15: Scholarshipe Committee files pertaining to scholarships and awards perviously offered but no longer active.
Notes
Information in the History/Bio field was taken from the Brandon University Senate Bylaws - Section VIII Committees of Senate.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 6: Brandon University Senate
6.2 Committees of Senate
Arrangement
Files within each box are arranged chronologically.
Consists of the BCSA constitution, electoral procedure documents, nomination forms, the Brandon College Crests and Awards Board constitution, the Brandon College Finance Board constitution, the Brandon College Athletic Board/Athletic Council constitution, the Brandon College Board of Publications constitution, the Brandon College Literary Board constitution, the Sigma Mu constitution, and BCSA statistical summary of Committee meetings.
Sub-series consists of accession records listing the accession number, author, title, publisher, cost and “source” for each book accessioned into the Brandon College Library. It includes a total of 10 accession catalogues covering the period December 1899 - June 1965: 2 accession catalogues (12x18x5) and 8 accession catalogues (9x12x .75 cm)
Storage Location
RG 1 Brandon College fonds
Series 15: Brandon College Library
File consists of various pension/insurance/retirement plans, correspondence and the constitution of the Brandon University Pension and Insurance Benefits Committee.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 5
This item is a continuation of the Brandon College Honor Roll (RG 6, sub-series 16.3, item 16). It lists Brandon College students who served and/or were killed, wounded, gassed or imprisoned during World War I.
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series16: Brandon University/College artifacts
16.3 Artifacts - other
Storage Range
New oversize drawer 4
Related Material
The Evan McDonald Whidden fonds (RG 1 Brandon College fonds, MG 1 1.8) has a considerable amount of correspondence written by Whidden to his family from the front during his service in World War I.
