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During the 1940s, the Bursar assumed responsibility for non- academic staff matters. In 1957 the Personnel Office was established within the Bursar's Office, and ten years later it became a separate department. PSSR, reporting to the Vice- President (Finance and Administration), provides advice, assistance and services to departmental administrators on all matters affecting non-academic personnel, and ensures that policies, regulations and guidelines are consistently applied throughout the campus. The Department oversees the operation of six divisions: Employee Relations, Employment Services, Classification and Compensation, Information Systems, Training and Development, and Occupational Health and Safety. Personnel Officers: 1957-1967 Murray Stewart Cooke. Directors: 1967-1976 Murray Stewart Cooke; 1976- Brian Caunt.

Established as a division of Technical Services in 1962, Photographic Services provides on-location and studio photography, copy work, colour slide processing, printing and reproduction, and photo identification cards for students as part of the registration process (PACCR 1987). Supervisors: 1965-1966 J. Salt; 1967-1968 H.F. Dietrich; 1969- 1973; A. Chernick; 1974-1979 Doreen Cox; 1980- David R. Spearing.

The Planning and Development office is a professional and technical department of the University with responsibility for representing and protecting the interests of the University in matters relating to planning and construction of physical facilities and support infrastructure. Planning and Development is an autonomous department (separate from Physical Plant) under a Director reporting to the Associate Vice-President (Facilities). Planning and Development provides professional leadership to direct, coordinate and facilitate activities to ensure compliance with the University's Long Range Development Plans; to plan, tender and construct new buildings/additions, major renovations/restorations, and minor renovations/furnishings; and to manage and maintain a space inventory and record drawings of the University's physical facilities (MAPPS 1990). Officers: 1967-1968 Walter Andrew Hiller. Directors: 1968- 1980 Walter Andrew Hiller; 1980-1988 Timothy C. Miner; 1988- 1989 Blake F. Pratt (Acting); 1989- James A. Dykes.

The University of Alberta Press, operating under the Vice- President (Student and Academic Services), acquires, publishes, and disseminates works of scholarly merit, and is recognized particularly for publishing in the following disciplines: history, literary criticism, classics, political science, Canadian studies, science, and interdisciplinary fields including Native studies, Slavic studies, and Middle East studies. It also has a commitment to publishing books of importance to western Canada. From 1969 to the appointment of a full-time executive editor in 1975, the Press was supervised by the University Press Committee. The first Director was appointed in 1977 (PACCR, 1989). Executive Editors: 1975-1979 Norma Gutteridge. Directors: 1977-1979 Leslie E.S. Gutteridge; 1979- Norma Gutteridge.

This organization resulted from the amalgamation of the Soldiers' Comfort Club (founded 1915) and the Overseas Auxiliary [1916]. It sent newsletters and gift parcels to University of Alberta students on active service during World War I. The contents of the parcels were provided by fundraising activities and by an active group of knitters among the staff, spouses and students. The newsletter provided a clearinghouse for the soldiers' letters and news of their fellows.

The Special Funds and Research Accounting Division is responsible for most aspects relating to the financial administration of all trust moneys received by the University. Known initially as the Special Funds Division, it received its current name in 1989. The roots of this unit can be traced to 1961, when an Assistant Accountant was appointed, one of the duties being to oversee trust accounts. Accountants: 1967-[1972] Robert J. Leonard; 1973-[1974] Douglas W. Ausman; 1975-1989 Lanny Howell. Managers: 1989-1990 James Dennis Fitzgerald; 1990- Donald H. Jorgensen

Special Sessions organizes and administers the instructional delivery of programs of other academic units. It provides extra- sessional credit courses through Spring Session, Summer Session and the Off-Campus Credit Program, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, to full-time and part-time students, and in cooperative programs, such as those with the Department of Adult, Career and Technology Education, Faculte St-Jean, and Athabasca University's Sunrise Project. In 1919 the University, through the Special Sessions Office, became involved in teacher education, conducting a modest-sized summer program in cooperation with the provincial Department of Education (the latter had been using classrooms on the University campus since 1913, to hold classes during the summer months for teachers who wished to upgrade their education). In 1950 the first evening credit courses were offered through the University. Classes were held at three locations: on the Edmonton campus, in Calgary and in Lethbridge. A University Senate Committee on Evening Courses was formed; its terms of reference included responsibility both for credit courses, offered by Special Sessions, and noncredit courses, offered by the Department of Extension. The Evening Credit Division Program was administered by the Department of Extension until 1955-1956, when J.W. Gilles, Director of Summer Session, was appointed its coordinator, and a new committee for the program was established whose terms of reference included only those matters dealing with credit courses. When a University of Alberta campus was established in Calgary, it was made responsible for administration of the Evening Credit Program in the southern part of the province. In 1965 the Summer Session and Evening Program committees were amalgamated on a recommendation of the General Faculties Council. The operations of Special Sessions were consolidated in the early seventies and a new program, Spring Session, was implemented, modelled after the Summer Session Program. The first classes were held in May-June 1972. Integration of late afternoon and evening credit courses held on campus into the general operations of the University was approved in 1970. Courses became the responsibility of the school/faculty concerned. Off-campus credit courses remained extra-sessional, and continued to be administered by the Office of Special Sessions until 1977, when responsibility for the program was divided between the Office of the Registrar (student recruitment, community contacts, handling local problems with courses, and establishing cooperation with other institutions), and the Special Sessions Office (courses, instructors, dealings with faculties and departments). In 1983 Special Sessions became part of the Faculty of Extension (PAACR, 1987). Directors - Summer Session: 1945-1949 Herbert Edgar Smith; [1949-1951] George Murray Dunlop. Directors - Special Sessions: 1951-1968 John William Gilles; 1968-1977 Stanley Charles Tremayne Clarke; 1977- Kenneth L. Carswell.

Counselling for students had been the responsibility of individually assigned faculty advisors from 1944 until the creation of Student Advisory Services in 1950. In 1959 the service was renamed Student Counselling Services to reflect the desire for counsellors' assistance to be taken as more than advice. Responsible to the Provost and later to the Dean of Student Services (from 1976), Student Counselling Services offers vocational and personal counselling to students, as well as study skills training and assistance regarding general academic concerns, to students at or planning to attend the University. A branch of the agency, Advisory Services Centre, explains appeals procedures and rules of student conduct and provides emergency funds and bursaries for students in financial need. Directors: 1950-1961 Alexander Joseph Cook; 1961-1963 Peter P. Rempel (Acting); 1963-1976 Arthur John Bates Hough; 1976-1977 Paul C. Sartoris (Acting); 1977-1981 Paul C. Sartoris; 1981-1982 Allen R. Vander Well (Acting); 1982- Allen R. Vander Well; 1987-1988 R. Fischer (Acting).

Student Services was created to consolidate the duties of numerous and often overlapping offices and committees which over the University's history have concerned themselves with student affairs, whether academic, disciplinary, financial or personal. Responsible to the Vice-President (Student and Academic Services), the Dean of Student Services acts as the office's senior administrator. Under the jurisdiction of the Office of Student Services are included the following agencies: Career and Placement Services, Disabled Student Services, Effective Writing Resources, International Centre, Native Student Services, Student Counselling Services, Advisory Services Centre, and University Health Services. The Dean of Student Services holds responsibilities similar to those of the former Provost, Dean of Men and Dean of Women, although, strictly speaking, not a direct successor to them. As chief administrator and coordinator of the Office of Student Services, the Dean of Student Services (known as Dean of Students until 1985) supervises the major student services divisions and acts as a liaison with University government through membership on the General Faculties Council, Dean's Council, the Senate, the Council on Student Services, and other committees relevant to students' concerns. The Dean is responsible to the Vice-President (Student and Academic Services). Records concerning students which are held by the Archives were produced by the following bodies and officers which had jurisdiction over student affairs: Advisor to Women Students, 1911-1951; Senate Committee on Student Affairs, 1912-1976; Students' Union Discipline Committee, 1912-[1976]; Residence House Committees, 1912-[1976]; Provost, 1914-1977; Advisor to Women Students and Warden of Pembina Hall, 1938-1945; Professor of Men in Residence, 1938-1946/47; Wardens of Pembina, Athabasca and Assiniboia Halls, [1945]-1966; Advisor to Student Veterans, 1950-[195-]; Dean of Women, 1951-[1976]; Administrator of Student Awards, 1959- ; Advisor to Men Students and Advisor to Foreign Students, 1960-1964; Dean of Men and Foreign Student Advisor, 1964-1975; General Faculties Council, 1966- ; Assistant Dean of Women (residences), 1964-1966; Assistant Dean of Men, 1966-[197-]; Assistant Deans in Residence, 1966-1977; University Ombudsman, 1971-1975; Foreign Student Advisor, 1975- ; Dean of Students, [1976]-1985; Council on Student Services, 1976- ; Advisor on Native Affairs, 1977- ; Vice-President (Student and Academic Services), 1990- . Deans: [1977] Ruth Groberman (Acting); 1977-1981 Burton M. Smith; 1981-1983 Paul C. Sartoris; (Acting); 1983- Peter J. Miller.

Student government at the University of Alberta was established in the university's first semester with the creation of a student council with F. Stacey McCall as its first president. By 1920, due to the almost full autonomy the council had been granted by University President Dr. Henry Marshall Tory, student council had changed its name to the University of Alberta Students' Union. The student union published the Gateway Newspaper, the Evergreen and Gold Yearbook, enforced most rules of student discipline, and sponsored sports teams and other activities. Over the years, the University of Alberta Students' Union has evolved into one of Canada's strongest student associations; the Students' Union represents the 25,000 undergraduate students at the University of Alberta. An eight-million dollar organization with hundreds of paid and volunteer staff, the SU is a powerful advocate for students and a major provider of student services. The SU also operates a number of business units, manages various targeted 'trust' funds, hosts a wide variety of entertainment and educational events, and runs the Students' Union Building. All University of Alberta undergraduates are members of the Students' Union. The SU has always been an advocate for students, and has long history of improving student life, such as building SUB and HUB Mall and successfully advocating for increased student representation at the Board of Governors and General Faculties Council. In recent years, the Students' Union has created a number of new services such as Safewalk and the Student Financial Aid and Information Centre; established the Legacy, Access , Student Involvement Endowment, and Campus Rec Enhancement Funds; opened new businesses; renovated SUB twice; and helped advocate for reduced bus pass prices and for increases to the education tax deduction. In 2002, after nearly a century of publication by the SU, the responsibility of publishing the Gateway Newspaper was taken away from the SU and published independently. Past SU alumni include such persons as former Alberta premiere Peter Lougheed (SU President, 1951-52), former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark (Gateway Editor-in-Chief, 1959-60), and a former U of A Dean of Law, Tim Christian (President, 1970-71).