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College student government.

 Subject
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Challenge to Governance oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1285
Abstract

Over 100 interviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators on subjects including the Vietnam War and the peace movement; the rights of women and minorities, especially blacks' rights and the Willard Straight Hall occupation; efforts to change the governing system at Cornell; and related issues. Most of the interviews have been transcribed.

Dates: 1969-1971.

Challenge to Governance Project records

 Collection — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924093390437]
Identifier: 47-5-1309
Abstract

Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, minutes, statements, broadsides, photographs, clippings, and other materials pertaining to civil rights activism and the work of various groups at Cornell to alter the institution's governing structure.

Dates: 1969-1970.

Cornell University. Presidents Commission on Student Involvement in Decision Making records

 Collection
Identifier: 3-10-1284
Abstract

Collection includes membership lists, invoices, budgets, tape recordings, memoranda, bibliographies, printed material, correspondence, drafts, and reports concerning the President's Commission, also known as the Morison Commission. Records primarily relate to student activism and involvement in university governance.

Dates: 1968-1969.

President's commission on self-governance records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-11-2995
Scope and content

Correspondence, subject files, preliminary and final reports, findings, surveys, and other records of the commission examining the issue of self-governance at Cornell University.

Dates: 1976-1977.

Student activism oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-2478
Scope and content In the first interview, on June 20, 1966, David Brandt, the president of the Executive Board, was interviewed by Gould P. Colman about what led Cornell's student government to take a position on the draft exam and Vietnam and aobut the steps that the Executive Board took following the passage of the resolutions to educate the student body about the issues involved in the referendum. Brandt was also interviewed on November 22, 1966; (3 tapes, 3 transcripts). Additional interviews were...
Dates: 1966, 1968.