The Program in Social Ecology Records, University of California, Irvine, document the daily administrative activities and the curriculum of the precursor to the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. The administrative materials include annual reports, personnel files, inventories and agendas, minutes, correspondence, and reports from various campus and University of California systemwide organizations. The curriculum records include budgets, status reports, program descriptions, field study reports, and descriptions of special programs.

The Program in Social Ecology, which was incorporated as an academic unit at the University of California, Irvine on January 1, 1970, was conceived and designed as a new approach to education aimed toward the development of solutions to the ongoing problems of society. The program was developed to be interdisciplinary in nature and involved with the community, allowing students to do field studies with various community organizations.

5.1 linear feet (5 boxes and one oversized folder)

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The collection is open for research. Access to files covered by California personnel records legislation is restricted for 50 years from the latest date of the materials in those files. Access to student records is restricted for 75 years from the latest date of the materials in those files. Restrictions are noted at the file level.