I. Academic Excellence/Standards - Defining a University,, 1974-1989

Summary: Includes correspondence, manifestos, meeting minutes, and resolutions pertaining to the issue of academic standards widely discussed during the period of Rutgers' "Academic Reorganization". Administration, alumni, faculty, and student points of view are represented, as are documents of the Alliance to Defend Education (ADE), a coalition whose members sought to identify that which made the various Rutgers colleges unique and worth preserving.