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The Universities Coordinating Council was created with the Universities Act of 1966. It consists of representatives from each Alberta university: the President and Vice-President (Academic), two Deans, two academic staff members appointed by the General Faculties Council, and three academic staff members appointed by the Coordinating Council. The Council can inquire, investigate, recommend and advise on any matter that affects all the members; it can set the terms of affiliation with colleges and entrance requirements from colleges to the universities. The Council also has authority over the administration of professional examinations. The University Act, as revised in 1910, provided the University of Alberta with the power to arrange with the incorporated professional associations or societies in the province which had the legislated right to prescribe examinations for candidates applying for registration in such societies, to administer and conduct the examinations, appoint examiners, and report results to the societies. Any incorporated professional society could apply for such arrangements, or administer its own examinations and accreditation procedures. Between 1942 and 1955 the responsibility for overseeing the examinations was held by the General Faculties Council at the University; between 1955 and1966 GFC delegated this authority to the Board of Examiners of each profession. The substantial reorganization of higher education under the Universities Act of 1966 created the Universities Coordinating Council, which received jurisdiction over the conditions of entrance to cooperating learned professions and callings.

The department was an administrative fusion of the University Archives and University Collections. The Timms Collections Centre was to be the home of the department. With the cancellation of the Centre in 1989 and the retirement of the Director in 1990, the two units were split with University Collections becoming Museums and Collection Services. Directors: 1986-1990 James McPherson Parker.

The Committee was formed to advise the consultants commissioned jointly by the University of Alberta, the University of Alberta Hospital, and the City of Edmonton to assess the transportation needs and problems of the University area, and to develop an appropriate transportation plan. Representatives from the communities adjacent to the University participated in the study.

The forerunner of the University of Calgary was a branch campus of the University of Alberta, administered from Edmonton by the President under the Board of Governors. The branch became an independent university with the passing of the Universities Act, 1966. Directors: 1947-1960 Andrew Leo Doucette. Principals: 1960-1963 Malcolm Gordon Taylor. Presidents: 1963-1966 Herbert Stoker Armstrong.

Volunteer community worker, [1895]-1983. Reta Rowan came from England to Manitoba in 1919, then to Edmonton in 1920, where her husband, William Rowan, taught at the University of Alberta. Mrs. Rowanþs interests were varied, ranging from involvement with cultural groups such as the Folk Festival Committee, to involvement with the Alberta Adult Education Society and with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. It was, however, her work with minority groups at the civic and provincial levels that claimed most of her time between 1942 and 1967. These included the Council for Canadian Unity, the Friends of the Indians Society and the Indian Association of Alberta.

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.

As the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (1969-1987), formed by amalgamating the functions and duties of several data-collecting offices, this unit provided statistical information to the University's administrators and to client-researchers on staff, students, courses, facilities and finance. Analysts developed databases, conducted or assisted research projects and prepared the annual statistical Data Book. In 1987, the offices and functions of Budget Planning and Institutional Research and Planning were merged into the office of Budget and Statistics. Directors: 1969-1977 William A. Preshing; 1977-1978 Gordon L. Mowat (Acting); 1978-[1987] Edward A. Holdaway; 1987 Richard N. Spilsted; 1988-1991 Peter A. Watts.

The Office of Student Awards was created to direct the management of scholarships and fellowships at the University of Alberta. It reported to the Vice-President (Academic) until 1976 when it became the responsibility of the Dean of Student Services. It advertises awards offered from sources within and outside the University and advises students on their applications. Administrators: [1961-1973] Robert Barry Wishart. Directors: [1973]-1984 Larry Henderson; 1984- Ronald Chilibeck.

The Office of the Dean of Men and Foreign Student Advisor, established in 1960, had the responsibility to advise and assist male students, to supervise fraternities and to assist with student discipline. The Office acted as coordinator for Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) and the Canadian International Development Agency. The functions of the office were assumed by the Office of the Dean of Student in 1976. Dean of Men: 1960-1975 Roland Charles Wilkins Hooper.

In 1971, the Board of Governors appointed Dr. Don Scott as the first University Ombudsman. His function was to receive, investigate, and seek to resolve complaints and grievances made to him by students and staff of the University concerning any academic and administrative procedures, practices and decisions. Typical complaints included problems with examinations, fee assessments, grading, quality and quantity of teaching, drinking at games, and termination of non-academic staff positions. In 1974 the Board of Governors initiated a review of the office, and it was allowed to lapse with the resignation of the incumbent on June 30, 1975. By that time other channels for dealing with complaints and grievances on campus had been developed and improved. Ombudsman: 1971-1975 Donald Burton Scott.