PIRIT ( Project for Institutional Renewal through the Improvement of Teaching) records include grant proposals, reports, memos, correspondence, meeting notes and project evaluations. The project was funded by the SSU Venture Fund and Exxon Education Foundation. SSU was one of the 16 colleges and universities (8 in the south & 8 in the Midwest) chosen to participate. Dick Johnston was PIRIT Coordator, April 1976-May 1977. Other members of the original PIRIT team were Ed Cell, Robert Crowley, Sue Eslinger, Burkett Milner, and Mary Kate Yntema.