The President's Development Task Force was announced in December, 1975 by President Walter Pitman. Pitman declared that a series of task forces was necessary to develop "a whole battery of academic activities which would have positive financial implications for Ryerson while enabling us to serve society more fully. We also hope that this planning will help to convince the government that more generous funding should be forthcoming."Individual task forces under the umbrella Development Task Force include the following (numbers indicate collection record numbers for each task force, as arranged under the President's Office Group):
RG 12.35 Academic Planning
RG 12.37 Applied Research/Project Development
RG 12.40 Fund Raising
RG 12.75 Institute Services
RG 12.38 Instruct. Communications Equipment - Cyclical Replacement
RG 12.39 Internal Processes
RG 12.27 Learning Resources Centre
RG 12.21 Part-Time Studies
RG 12.18 Professional Development
RG 12.76 Ryerson-Generated Revenue
RG 12.36 Timetabling Procedures
A historical outline of the Development Task Force can be found in the first file folder RG 12.20