Agency history, 1994-2000

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Subject

  • Hoffmann, Robert S
  • O'Connor, J. Dennis
  • Heyman, Ira Michael 1930-2011
  • Smithsonian Institution Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities
  • Smithsonian Institution Assistant Provost for Educational and Cultural Programs
  • Smithsonian Institution Assistant Provost for the Sciences

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Smithsonian Directory
  • Smithsonian Institution Office of Equal Employment and Minority Affairs, [http://oit-csd.si.edu/oemma/LETSDOBZweb.html], September 2, 1999
  • Memorandum from Secretary Heyman, October 3, 1994
  • Memorandum from Acting Provost Robert Hoffmann, November 4, 1994
  • The Office of the Provost was established on October 31, 1994, by Ira Michael Heyman, Secretary. His goal was to reorganize certain senior management functions and give "new sets of responsibilities to several highly accomplished senior staff." At this time, Assistant Secretaries who had previously reported to the Secretary, now reported to the Provost, including the Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities, Assistant Provost for Educational and Cultural Programs, and the Assistant Provost for the Sciences. O'Connor eliminated these three offices in early 1996.
  • The Provost served as the Smithsonian's chief program officer, overseeing all scholarly programs and staff in the areas of research, museum exhibitions and education, as well as library, archives and other scholarly support activities in the sciences, arts, and humanities. During an administrative restructuring in 2000, the Office was abolished.
  • Robert S. Hoffmann, was Acting Provost, 1994-1995; and J. Dennis O'Connor was Provost, 1995-2000.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1994
  • 1994-2000

Topic

  • Museums
  • Museums--Administration

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00040

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