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This series holds files and papers for the state run portion of the Children's Home Society of Florida. The society functions as a statewide entity with local operating divisions; these files focus on the operations of the society as a state entity. By-laws created for the society are held here as well as various society publications. Reports and surveys help give a more complete picture in the work being performed. Studies came from both inside thesociety and outside from state and national organizations.

Series I contains correspondence, reports, and notes that detail the president's involvement with the State University System as it related to the operations of the university. The files are arranged in alphabetical order. Audits include both those documenting the university and those giving a broader view of the State University System.

This series includes information pertaining to Florida Technological University/University of Central Florida's involvement with the Florida State University System during its first decade as a university. The material contained in this series deals with Board of Regent allocations and decisions, accreditation reports and standards, and the changing of its name from FTU to UCF. Notably, there is a card printed by FTU stating that they are accredited in the Accreditation subseries. A petition for UCF staff and spouses to continue to take six credit hours of classes for free can be found in Board of Regent's 1970 miscellaneous correspondence. Florida Legislature folder contains correspondence from politicians Lou Frey, Jr.,Tom Adams, and Lew Earle from the 1970 election. Included in the Name Change folder are suggested names for Florida Technological University before FTU was renamed the University of Central Florida.

Series I contains correspondence, reports, and notes that detail the president's involvement with the State University System as it related to the operations of the university. The subseries and the files within them are arranged in alphabetical order. Most of the materials consist of meeting documents for the Board of Regents and Council of Presidents meetings. File dividers were removed from some of these documents and replaced with acid-free paper; the numbers indicate the agenda numbers. Some Council of Presidents meeting documents are almost entirely minutes, and they form a separate file group. Budgets for the universities were negotiated through the State University System and the budget process is documented here. A separate subseries is devoted to the Chancellor who was in frequent contact with the presidents and the Board of Regents by memorandum. This internal correspondence differs from Policy Memoranda that are consecutively numbered beginning in January of each year until 1996 when the system became more complicated. Policy Memoranda are, therefore, arranged by number until 1996 and then chronologically. In October 1996 the memoranda were rescinded and new ones issued with an index on the Chancellor's web site. Of particular interest in this series are the files entitled "governance" that show how the Board of Regents came to an end. July 1981 meetings include information about groundbreaking for Research Park. State University System Master Plans and files highlighting the president's work with the Florida Senate Ways and Means Committee on a twenty-five percent Florida universities budget reduction for UCF are also significant.

Series I contains correspondence, reports and notes related to Ellis' involvement with the State University System, both as acting President and as the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Materials are arranged in alphabetical order; the documents within the folders are arranged chronologically. Most material within this series relates to meetings for the Board of Regents, including meetings of special divisions of the Board, the budget, and correspondence files. A separate subseries is devoted to the Chancellor who was in frequent contact with the presidents and the Board of Regents by memorandum and another subseries is devoted to the Council of Presidents, which contains mostly meeting minutes. The General subseries contains files related to specific programs and interests of the State University System, including program reviews, faculty and labor issues and information about United Faculty of Florida. The final subseries contains information, includi! ng correspondence and programs, regarding other state universities in Florida.