Dates

• Existence: 1958 - 1973

Administrative history

President Michael P. Walsh, SJ, created the University Planning Committee in 1958, naming W. Seavey Joyce as its chairman. The Committee reported on the general academic status of the University, supervised an Arts and Sciences Self-Study, and provided material on which the University's Development program was based. Its activities waned over the following years, and it eventually ceased to operate.

In 1968, upon assuming the presidency, Joyce revitalized the Committee, appointing Demetrius Iatridis of the Institute of Human Sciences as chair; Joyce himself served as an ex-officio member. At its first meeting, the reconstituted Committee defined its mandate as advising the President on matters of long-range, comprehensive, developmental planning, with a charge to provide a continuous, systematic study of the growth pattern of the University as a whole distinct from the fiscal, curricular, or personnel-specific planning handled by other University bodies.

The Committee had presumably ceased to exist by the time President J. Donald Monan, SJ, established the University Academic Planning Council in September 1973.