Executive Assistant to the President (Linda Simmons) Records
Scope and Contents note
The collection is divided into two sections: records that document the $42.8 million general obligation bond planning and construction project approved by voters in 1995 and records for the restructuring of Lane Community College's organizational structure with the Process Redesign Project. Detailed descriptions are provided at the series level.
The Bond Measure collection has information on meetings and committees, financial information, presentations, public relations, newspaper articles, results from public surveys, the Master Plan for Construction Bonds (1994), The Nelson Report (1995), and the Transcript of Proceedings for Bond Sales (1995).
The Process Redesign collection has information on meetings and committees (Process Evaluation & Selection Team (PEST), Students First! Redesign Team, Leadership Team), financial information, presentations, public relations and newspaper articles, results from public surveys, reports, and information from other colleges.
Dates
- Creation: 1991-2000
Creator
- Simmons, Linda (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use note
There are no use restrictions.
Biographical Note
Linda Simmons (previous married name Waddell) began her work at Lane Community College in 1984 as the Director of Financial Aid (1984-1993). In 1994, she was named interim assistant to the president, a position that became permanent. She accepted a position as District Vice President for Academic Affairs at Cuyahoga Community College in 2002. Additionally, she spent the 1993-1994 academic year at Cuyahoga Community College as an ACE fellow. Before her employment at Lane, she was the Director of Financial Aid at Central Oregon Community college (1978-1984), Assistant Director of Financial Aid at Grossmont Community College in El Cajon, California (1977-1978), and a Financial Aid Counselor at Grossmont from 1973-1977. Ms. Simmons has a Ph.D. in Education from Oregon State University (2002), an M.S. in Counseling from San Diego State University (1977), and a B.A. in Business Administration (1972). These are the papers she created during her time as Executive Assistant to the president.
Extent
24 Containers (1-24: document boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Administrative Records from Linda Simmons, Executive Assistant to the President from 1994-2002.
Arrangement note
The collection is divided into two series.
A. Bond Records, 1993-2000
B. Process Redesign, 1991-1999
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Administrative transfer from the President's Office in 2003.
Separated Materials note
Separated from Box 24/Folder 12: three videotapes.
Separated from Box 8: 4 proof sheets, 13 color photographs, 24 black & white photographs, 24 black & white negatives.
General Physical Description note
24 document boxes of paper records and ephemera, 1 file of photographs & negatives, and 3 videocassettes.
Processing Information note
These records were processed by archivist Tiah Edmunson-Morton in 2005 following the guidelines for minimal processing. The records are stored in boxes in the order they were received by the Archives. This arrangement is reflected in the box and folder listing in the description section. The collection was intellectually rearranged into two series and this arrangement is reflected in the series and folder descriptions which are in alphabetical order.
Subject
- Spilde, Mary (Person)
- Waddell, Linda (Person)
- Moskus, Jerry R. (Person)
- Simmons, Linda (Person)
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.) (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
- Bond Measure
- Campus planning
- College facilities
- Colleges and Universities
- Community colleges -- Oregon
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.) -- Construction
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.) -- Elections
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.) -- Personnel management
- Process Redesign
- Students First!
- Universities and colleges -- Administration
- Universities and colleges -- Oregon
- Title
- Guide to Executive Assistant to the President (Linda Simmons) Records 1991–2000
- Author
- Tiah Edmunson-Morton
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Funding for encoding the finding aid was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the Lane Community College Archives Repository