Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 6/3/51
George G. Karas
Papers, 1960-1995


Descriptive summary

creator:

Karas, George G.

title:

Papers

dates:

1960-1995

extent:

9.1 linear feet (7 records center cartons)

collection number:

RS 6/3/51

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

George G. Karas Papers, RS 6/3/51, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

George G. Karas received a B.A. (1956) from Depauw University, an M.S. (1958) and a Ph.D. (1959) from Purdue University. He joined the Iowa State University faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology (1959-1963). Karas was promoted to Associate Professor (1963-1967) and became a full member of the Graduate Faculty (1962). He was named Assistant Dean of the Graduate College (1966-1977) and a Professor of Psychology in 1967. For almost twenty years, Karas served as an Associate Dean of the Graduate College (1977-1995). During his association with the Graduate College, he worked with the Teaching Assistants Orientation Seminars and the Graduate Student Senate. Karas retired from Iowa State University in 1995.

 

Collection description

This collection contains reports, correspondence, and other materials relating Karas' work with Iowa State University, particularly the African Graduate Fellowship Program, the English Proficiency Evaluation Committee, international student admissions, the Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / Iowa State University exchange program, and the University's United States Air Force Operations Analysis Standby Unit. The papers also include documents relating to his involvement in the Council of Graduate Schools, the Iowa Academy of Science, the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, and the Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa).

 

Organization

Collection is arranged in alphabetical order.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Academic Planning Committee

1980

1

2

Academic Planning Committee

1983-1984

1

3

Academic program review

1981

1

4

Academic visitors from Turkey

1993

1

5

Admissions procedures

1976-1985

1

6

Affirmative Action and Minority Recruiting

1976-1977

1

7

African Graduate Fellowship Program

1985-1991

1

8

African Graduate Fellowship Program

1985

1

9

African Graduate Fellowship Program

1986

1

10

African Graduate Fellowship Program

1989

1

11

African Graduate Fellowship Program

1990

1

12

African Graduate Fellowship Program

1992

1

13

African Graduate Fellowship Program – county educational systems

1986

1

14

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Deans Committee

1987

1

15

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Deans Committee

1989

1

16

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Deans Committee

1990

1

17

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Deans Committee

1991

1

18

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1985

1

19

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1986

1

20

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1986

1

21

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1986

1

22

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1987

1

23

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1988

1

24

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1988

1

25

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1989

1

26

African Graduate Fellowship Program – Executive Committee

1990

1

27

African Graduate Fellowship Program – post graduate program

1987

1

28

Aid Evaluation Project

1978-1979

1

29

American Association of Graduate Schools

1985

2

1

Analysis of Requirements for the Console Operator Position in the UNIVAC 1050-II Standard Base Level Supply System

1965

2

2

Annual reports

1968-1979

2

3

Applied Research Ethics National Association

1987

2

4

Association of Graduate Schools – presentation

1985

2

5

Bioethics group

1986-1988

2

6

Biographical information

1985

2

7

Biotechnology graduate student recruitment

1987

2

8

Business administration

1981-1983

2

9

Certificate of attendance

1982

2

10

Chapter 18 "Nuclear Ordnance Management" (1 of 2)

1969

2

11

Chapter 18 "Nuclear Ordnance Management" (2 of 2)

1969

2

12

College of Education Graduate Program

1968-1971

2

13

Computer costs

1974-1984

2

14

Computer terminal considerations

1975-1978

2

15

Concurrent degrees

1972-1982

2

16

Concurrent enrollment form

1983

2

17

Conference on Teaching Assistant

1986

2

18

Continuous registration

1981

2

19

Correspondence

1980-1988

2

20

Correspondence

1988

2

21

Correspondence – Lindell , Mike

1971-1985

2

22

Correspondence – Patterson, John

1977-1984

2

23

Council of Graduate Schools

1984

2

24

Council of Graduate Schools

1985-1986

2

25

Council of Graduate Schools – annual meeting

1985

2

26

Council of Graduate Schools – annual meeting

1988

2

27

Council of Graduate Schools – annual meeting

1991

2

28

Council of Graduate Schools – annual meeting

1994

2

29

Council of Graduate Schools – foreign student booklet

1988

2

30

Council of Graduate Schools – spring board meeting

1990

2

31

Council of Graduate Schools – summer research opportunity program

1993

2

32

Council of Graduate Schools – workshop

1987

2

33

Council of Graduate Schools – workshop on teaching assistant training

1988

2

34

Course – HPC 500

1986

2

35

Course programming in Western Iowa

1989-1990

2

36

CYNET Advising Network

1983-1986

2

37

Data processing costs and plans

1984-1985

2

38

Data processing procedures

1976-1983

2

39

Dean of Graduate Education

1988-1989

3

1

Department officers in graduate education

1983-1984

3

2

Department officers in graduate education

1985-1986

3

3

Department officers in graduate education

1987-1990

3

4

Designated repeat system

1983

3

5

Distribution of Marks

1980-1982

3

6

Engineering Graduate Student Recruiting Symposium

1989

3

7

Engineering graduate student recruitment

1989

3

8

English for foreign students

1978-1981

3

9

English Proficiency Evaluation Committee

1984-1985

3

10

English Proficiency Evaluation Committee

1985

3

11

Ethics review

1981-1982

3

12

Faculty frequency distribution

1977

3

13

Faculty improvement leave

1976

3

14

Fee assessment for sponsored students

1978

3

15

Final performance report for the graduate on professional study fellowship program at Iowa State University

1992

3

16

Foreign Admissions

1971-1983

3

17

Foreign admissions

1989

3

18

Foreign Graduate Student Sub-committee

1978

3

19

Foreign student academic reports

1980-1989

3

20

Foreign teaching assistants (1 of 2)

1984

3

21

Foreign teaching assistants (2 of 2)

1984

3

22

Foreign teaching assistants (1 of 4)

1985

3

23

Foreign teaching assistants (2 of 4)

1985

3

24

Foreign teaching assistants (3 of 4)

1985

3

25

Foreign teaching assistants (4 of 4)

1985

3

26

Gene Clubine research

1971

3

27

General graduate studies

1974-1985

3

28

GPA with and without research

1979

3

29

Graduate assistantships

1981

3

30

Graduate College annual report

1984-1988

3

31

Graduate College computer student record system

1973-1981

3

32

Graduate College English requirement

1969-1986

3

33

Graduate College information notebook

1972-1977

3

34

Graduate College orientation notebook

1989

3

35

Graduate College procedures

1971

3

36

Graduate departments and majors

1986-1987

3

37

Graduate English for foreign students

1966-1982

4

1

Graduate faculty

1969-1970

4

2

Graduate faculty file organization

1985

4

3

Graduate Faculty Membership Committee

1990

4

4

Graduate Research Advisory Committee

1971-1976

4

5

Graduate student fees

1968-1969

4

6

Graduate student in psychology

1969-1974

4

7

Graduate student recruiting program

1986-1987

4

8

Graduate student recruitment – presented to DOGE

1988

4

9

Graduate Student Senate

1980

4

10

Graduate students enrolled in 400 level courses for graduate credit

1983

4

11

Higher education planning and management systems

1972

4

12

Honeywell correspondence – engineering and business administration program

1984-1987

4

13

Hoyt assistantship

1982-1984

4

14

Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / Iowa State University exchange

1986-1987

4

15

Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / Iowa State University exchange

1986-1987

4

16

Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / Iowa State University exchange committee

1988-1989

4

17

Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / Iowa State University exchange

1987-1992

4

18

Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / Iowa State University exchange – faculty development program

1982-1984

4

19

Intensive English orientation program

1978-1988

4

20

International Admissions

1978

4

21

International Education

1975-1979

4

22

International Education

1975-1979

4

23

International Education Conference

1978

4

24

International Education Taskforce

1978-1979

4

25

International Forum

1986

4

26

International student English proficiency

1977-1978

4

27

International student furniture exchange

1982-1987

4

28

Iowa Academy of Science

1989

4

29

Iowa Academy of Science – 100th annual meeting

1988

4

30

Iowa Academy of Science – Finance Committee

1988

4

31

Iowa State University census of persons from other countries

1975

4

32

Iowa State University Committee on Minorities

1968

4

33

Iowa State University foreign student reports description

1976

4

34

Iowa State University Graduate College 75th Anniversary

1991

4

35

Iowa State University graduate degrees awarded

1986

4

36

Iowa State University graduate degrees awarded

1988

4

37

Iowa State University numerical survey of foreign graduate students

1975

4

38

Iowa State University PhDs in Education, 1943-1969

1970

4

39

Iowa State University Registration and Classification Committee

1988

4

40

Iowa State University strategic planning retreat

1986

4

41

Landscape Architecture Department

1989

4

42

Latin American scholarship program

1988

4

43

Life Sciences Symposium

1990

4

44

Mary Greeley Medical Center Research Review Committee

1982

4

45

Mary Greeley Medical Center Research Review Committee guidelines and policies

1986

5

1

Mary Greeley Medical Center Research Review Committee protocols

1984-1985

5

2

Master of Public Administration

1982-1983

5

3

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

1982

5

4

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

1983

5

5

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

1985

5

6

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

1991-1994

5

7

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – 50th anniversary

1992-1994

5

8

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Annual Meeting

1991

5

9

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – annual meeting

1995

5

10

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Annual Meeting Program Committee

1988-1989

5

11

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Auditing Committee

1981

5

12

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Executive Committee

1987

5

13

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Executive Committee

1989-1990

5

14

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Executive Committee

1989-1990

5

15

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Executive Committee

1989-1991

5

16

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools – Resolution Committee

1984-1985

5

17

Mini-grants

1986

5

18

Minority affairs

1990

5

19

Minority Recruiting Program

1975, 1986-1987

5

20

Minority recruitment program

1988

5

21

Minority recruitment program

1988-1990

5

22

Modern language requirement

1962-1963

5

23

Modern language requirement

1963-1968

5

24

Modern language requirement special committee

1963

5

25

NASA – University Conference

1962

5

26

National Association for Foreign Student Affairs

1978

5

27

National Association for Foreign Student Affairs Council of Graduate Schools study

1978-1979

5

28

NAFSA-CGS

1979-1981

5

29

National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals Conference Committee

1994

5

30

National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals Conference Committee

1994

5

31

National Science Foundation Workshop

1979

5

32

News clippings

1985

5

33

Off campus courses

1968-1974

5

34

Off campus credit courses

1972-1973

5

35

Off campus graduate program

1990-1991

6

1

Off campus MPA program

1989-1990

6

2

Office of Continuing Education

1973-1990

6

3

Office of Scientific Engineering Personnel of the National Resources Council Commission on Human Resources – Doctorate Records File Documentation

1974-1978

6

4

Office of Scientific Engineering Personnel of the National Resources Council Commission on Human Resources – Doctorate Records File Documentation

1978

6

5

Office of Scientific Engineering Personnel of the National Resources Council Commission on Human Resources – Doctorate Records File Documentation

1987

6

6

Office organization and responsibilities

1970-1979

6

7

Operations Analysis Standby Unit, United States Air Force

1960-1961

6

8

Operations Analysis Standby Unit, United States Air Force

1967-1968

6

9

Operations Analysis Standby Unit, United States Air Force

1969-1970

6

10

Operations Analysis Standby Unit, United States Air Force

1968

6

11

Original English Reports

1984-1987

6

12

Pass – not pass system

1981

6

13

Plus/minus grading

1976-1984

6

14

Policies for release of student information

1974-1984

6

15

Proposal for the creation of advanced degree programs

1985

6

16

Prospective graduate student presentation

1984

6

17

Psychology faculty correspondence

1970-1973

6

18

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research

1984

6

19

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research

1985

6

20

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research

1987

6

21

Quad Cities Graduate Study Center

1969-1974

6

22

Quarter to semester transition

1980

6

23

Quarter to semester system

1982

6

24

Regional Substance Abuse Center – Advisory Committee

1980

6

25

Registrar's Office reports

1981

6

26

Registration by telephone

1986

6

27

Satisfactory Progress Taskforce

1982

6

28

Scholars from India

1984

6

29

Sigma XI

1965-1974

6

30

Sigma Xi – Iowa State University Chapter presidential address

1992

6

31

South African scholarship

1987-1990

6

32

Speak/Teach Seminar presentation

1985-1987

6

33

Speak/Teach Seminar presentation

1987

6

34

Student records and services

1979

6

35

Student records system and computer terminal request

1972-1977

6

36

Supply training review project

1968-1971

6

37

Survey of Earned Doctorates (reel-to-reel computer tape)

1987

7

1

Survey of number of quarters taken by masters students at Iowa State University

1971-1974

7

2

System analysis

1970

7

3

Teach research assistantship study

1974-1978

7

4

Teaching assistants

1989-1991

7

5

Teaching assistants orientation

1973-1980

7

6

Teaching assistants orientation

1979-1984

7

7

Teaching assistants orientation project

1972-1974

7

8

Teaching assistants orientation seminar

1976-1981

7

9

Teaching Assistants Training and Orientation Committee

1988

7

10

Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa)

1988-1990

7

11

Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa)

1985-1986

7

12

Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa)

1986-1987

7

13

Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa)

1987-1988

7

14

Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa)

1990-1991

7

15

Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa) – Commission on the Arts and Ames Community Art Council

1988-1990

7

16

Town and Gown Chamber Music Association (Ames, Iowa) – fund raising

1989-1990

7

17

Tuition and fees

1982-1983

7

18

University counselor

1973

7

19

University of Arizona Review Committee

1984-1986

7

20

University Research Review Committee

1967-1970

7

21

Women in Science and Engineering Program

1989-1990

7

22

YMCA Board

1978-1982