The establishment of the position of Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies was approved by the Board of Governors in February, 1975. The Dean, reporting to the Vice-President (Academic), was charged with responsibility for the administration of existing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary graduate programs, the development of further interdisciplinary degree programs at the graduate level, and for overseeing institutes and centres whose activities did not clearly lie within one particular faculty. Institutes, centres, and programs falling under Interdisciplinary Studies were the Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, the Centre for the Study of Mental Retardation, the Devonian Botanic Garden, the Division of Community Development, the Division of East European Studies, and the Water Resources Centre. The duties of the Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies were transferred to the Vice-President (Research) in 1981. Deans: 1976-1981 Gerald Seymour Hunter Lock.