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Alberta Union of Provincial Employees represents a large number of government and board employees throughout the province. For administrative purposes, AUPE designates each department or unit a local number. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Local 52 is the sole bargaining agent for The University of Calgary support staff and was formed by an enactment of the Alberta legislature on June 14, 1976. Previously, The University of Calgary's support staff were served by the Civil Service Association of Alberta. Local 52 is autonomous within the structure of AUPE and bargains independently within AUPE's constitution. The Local consists of over 2000 salaried and casual members and is administered by four chapters which each elect an executive to look after the chapter's interest. Local 52's chapters are Operational/Administrative, General, Specialist/Advisor, and Trades/Technical. These chapters reflect the job families staff are classified under. Representatives to Local 52 Council are elected by the chapters, and the Local executive is elected from among the members of the Council.

Alfred William Rooke Carrothers (1924-1998) was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on June 1, 1924. He took his undergraduate education at the University of British Columbia, receiving a BA in 1947 and an LLB in 1948. He then attended Harvard Law School and earned an LLM in 1951 and a Doctorate of Juridical Science in 1966. Carrothers joined the Faculty of Law at UBC as a lecturer in 1948 and became a full professor in 1960. In 1964 he became Dean, Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and in 1969 was appointed President of The University of Calgary, a position he held until 1974. He was involved in numerous learned societies and public service groups including serving as president of the Association of Canadian Law Teachers (1966-1967) and as chair of the Advisory Committee on the Development of Government in the North West Territories (1965-1966). He and his wife, Jane, had three children. Alfred W. R. Carrothers died on May 4, 1998 in Victoria, British Columbia at the age of 73.

The Alberta Library Network was a networking initiative among university libraries in the early 1980s. Alan MacDonald represented The University of Calgary and was responsible for preparing the document, "Principles and Considerations for Implementing an Alberta Library Network," which was presented to the Alberta Network Assembly in June 1982. Although this initiative was not implemented, the drive to network still exists and continues to reappear under different names.

In 1936 a Faculty Relations Committee was created by presidential appointment to act as liaison between the administration and the academic staff at the Calgary Branch of the University of Alberta. The appointment of the FRC came into effect in 1939 and annual staff meetings were iniated in 1940. A constitution was not in place until 1945 when it was agreed that the FRC would now act as the executive to the Association of Teaching Staff of the University of Alberta (ATSUA). The mandate, as laid out in the constitution, was to foster academic fraternity and to protect the independence and freedom of teaching, thought and research. Every full time member of the academic staff was a member. In 1949 the administrative procedures were reviewed and a new constitution was in place in 1950 by which the executive regularly elected by ATSUA was recognized as the liason agency and the FRC ceased to exist. The name was changed again twice: in 1959 to Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (AASUA); in 1962 to Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta, Calgary (AASUAC).

A re-organization of the committee structure undertaken by the Board of Governors in 1992 resulted in rescinding the terms of reference for the Planning and Budget and the Operations and Finance Committees, and creating a new Planning and Finance Committee. The terms of reference for the Planning and Finance Committee are: a) Reviews, approves or recommends to the Board, as appropriate, all matters pertaining to the preparation of the annual operating and capital budgets; b) Reviews, approves or recommends to the Board, as appropriate, all matters pertaining to fees for admission, registration, instruction, recreation, athletics and any such similar fees as may from time to time be instituted; c) Reviews, approves or recommends to the Board, as appropriate, all matters pertaining to the Board's responsibility for the safe, effective and efficient management of the University's physical assets, including, but not necessarily limited to leasing of space, disposal or equipment or insurance; d) Monitors and approves or recommends to the Board, as appropriate, all matters relating to long-range planning, including but not limited to physical planning; e) Oversees the work of the Investment committee, University budget committee and General endowment accounts committee and reports to the Board; f) Reviews and recommends to the Board for approval, the annual request to Government for operating and capital funds; g) Monitors all major capital projects and reports to the Board regularly; h) Without restricting the generality of the foregoing, considers all matters relating to university finance and planning; and i) Receives regular reports from the President, or designate, on the exercise of those of the Board's powers which have been delegated to the committee and subsequently by the committee to the President or designate.

The Calgary Clinical Resources Co-ordinating Committee promotes the most advantageous use of clinical resources in Calgary and surrounding areas. It maintains a process of facilitating the requests for clinical resources made by nursing education programs, provides clinical experiences for nursing students in the clinical agencies while complying with the agencies' care standards, provides a forum for educational and clinical agencies to discuss issues of mutual concern, and communicates and provides recommendations to appropriate groups on issues regarding clinical resources. The Committee was formed in 1981 and was called The Joint Committee for the Allocation of Clinical Resources. The name was changed to Calgary Clinical Resources Co-ordinating Committee in September 1993. Commmittee membership is comprised of nursing educational program representatives responsible for nursing student clinical placement, and health care agency representatives responsible for clinical practice.

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities was established as a university-level research institute at the University of Calgary in 1976. The Institute is responsible to the Vice-President (Research). It fosters advanced study and research in a broad range of subjects reflecting its multi-disciplinary and multi-faculty orientation. The Humanities Institute supports research in traditional humanities as well as in philosophical and historical aspects of the social sciences, sciences, arts, and professional studies. The humanities are not conceived as a specific group of academic disciplines, but include all forms of study that examine what is human. In addition to its role at the university, the Calgary Institute for the Humanities encourages humanistic study outside of the university and dialogue between the academic community and the general public. Programs of the Institute include fellowship appointments, independent research initiatives by university faculty, strategic research projects, and community partnerships.

The Calgary Town and Gown Club was founded ca.1961 to bridge the perceived gap between those who had struggled to obtain a Calgary university and the new academic community. Although the meetings were not as formal as the name suggests, they did provide occasion for dinner and debate. The first club dinner was probably in January or February of 1962 at the Highlander Motor Hotel. The Club celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1987-1988.

The Effective Writing Program Office was established in 1976 and reports to the Faculty of General Studies. The Office administers the Effective Writing Requirement which all students at The University of Calgary must meet within twelve months from the beginning of the session of their initial registration. The requirement is otherwise known as the Alberta Universities' Writing Competence Test. To pass the test, students are required to write an essay on a general topic in which they demonstrate a university entrance level competence in writing. The Office also arranges for individual tutoring for students experiencing difficulties in their writing through its Writing Centre.