Graduate Student Association records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9-1-64

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These files are complete as possessed by the Graduate Student Association when they were released to the Archives. Financial Records for clubs, bills, treasurer's memos, budgets; also data on student fees, athletic fees, scholarships. Chairmen of the GSA and others generated correspondence with administrative officers of the University on many topics; for example, with Robert O'Neill, Executive Assistant to President Meyerson. Some correspondence documents the drive toward participation in university governance, through the Committee on Institutional Funding, Student Behavior, the Faculty Senate Committee on Student Affairs, the Grading and Ranking Committee, the Graduate Dean Search Committee, and the 1970 Presidential Search Committee. Minutes exist for the Student Seante, GSA Executive Council, the 1970 Collegiate Assembly. Academic Plans were collected from every faculty under President Martin Meyerson, and President Furnas's Task Force on University Policy. Documentation of events include recruitment on campus by Dow Chem Corp. and the CIA, the 1964 site visit by HUAC, the student strike of 1969. Papers collected pertain to local civil rights organizations (by the Center for the Study of Racism), the draft, Themis, and others. Speakers and symposia sponsored included Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. Benjamin Spock. "America in Crisis, 1968", featured Tom Hayden, Howard Zinn, Carl Oglesby, and John Gerassi.

Dates

1963-1970

Creator

Graduate Student Association (State University of New York at Buffalo) (Organization)

Terms of Access and Use

The Graduate Student Association records, 1963-1970 are open for research.

Copyright

Copyright is held by The State University of New York at Buffalo, University Archives. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. 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

The Graduate Student Association was formed in 1962-1963; one of its first projects was a group insurance plan. A Social Committee was organized, to provide a sense of community for the new student, and a Publications Committee to plan an information booklet; also committees on Housing, Foreign Students, and Orientation.

The 1960s were a momentous time for the University at Buffalo, partly due to student unrest and protest as well as notable visitors such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. These files hold record of one of the most eventful decades in UB history.

Extent

3.5 Linear Feet (7 manuscript boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Records of the Graduate Student Association of the State University of New York at Buffalo, from 1963 to 1970, including correspondence, financial records, reports, Executive Council minutes, and other materials.