General Education Program records
Scope and Contents
Accession #00-111 was organized according to appropriate subject categories, accession #86-065 was organized by course proposals and outlines and accession #87-046 was arranged chronologically.
Dates
- 1975-1991
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English.
Terms of Access
General Education Program Records, 1975-1991, are open for research.
Copyright
Copyright is held by the State University of New York at Buffalo, University Archives. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
Historical Note
In 1977 an advisory committee was formed by the Vice President for Academic Affairs in order to re-examine the General Education Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It was initially formed in a response "to a growing dissatisfaction with the ways in which challenges to the required structure of undergraduate education were met by faculty and administration in the late 1960s" ("Preliminary Report," January 31, 1977). Their main purpose was to explore which subjects all students should include in their undergraduate studies and "recommend a future for General Education at the University," (Report, 1977).
Between 1977-1989 the advisory committee reviewed various course, researched other institutions' programs, and re-designed the General Education Program that shaped the required courses for all undergraduate students at the university.
Extent
9.8 Linear Feet (23 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box)
Abstract
Records documenting the formation of the General Education Program. Includes meeting minutes, correspondence, proposals, course information and faculty vitas.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in three series and subseries: I. Development, II. Correspondence II.A. General Education Programs II.B. Basic Skills II.C. Committee III. Courses III.A. Foreign Language or Cross-Cultural Studies III.B. Health and Life Sciences III.C. Historical and Philosophical Studies III.D. Literature and Arts III.E. Physical Science, Technology and Mathematics III.F. Social and Behavioral Studies
Acquisition Information
Records transferred on August 14, 2000 to the University Archives as collection #00-111 by Thomas E. Headrick, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, former Dean and Provost of the School of Law. Collections #86-065 (Undergraduate Education Course Proposals and General Education Committees, 1970s) and #87-046 (General Education Committee Meeting Minutes, 1979-1985) were later merged with the initial collection.
Accruals and Additions
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
Separated Materials
3/12/00-6 Course descriptions and handbooks removed.
Biographical files Faculty resumes removed.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Jen Goul and Jessica Tanny, October 2004.
- Correspondence
- Curriculum planning -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Headrick, Thomas E., 1933-
- State University of New York at Buffalo -- Committees -- Curricula
- State University of New York at Buffalo. General Education Program -- Records and correspondence
Source
- University Archives (Repository, Organization)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the General Education Program records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Jen Goul and Jessica Tanny.
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository
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Buffalo New York 14260-1674 US
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lib-archives@buffalo.edu