Series I. Subject Files: Academic Calendar to Coeducation,, 1956-1972

Summary: Clifford's files document his office and leadership through his correspondence with deans and other administrators in the Rutgers University system. Included among the correspondence are folders dedicated to the administrative units that reported to Clifford. These include correspondence with the deans of Rutgers College, Douglass College, the College of South Jersey, and Rutgers-Newark Colleges, the heads of University Health Services, Office of Student Financial Aid, and the Psychological Service Center, and the University Chaplain. There is a folder dedicated to correspondence with Clyde Szuch, University Council. These folders hold meeting reminders, meeting minutes, memorandums and correspondence between Clifford and other administrators.

In addition to the offices that reported directly to him, Clifford's records also include folders dedicated to the Athletic Department, the Reserve Officer Training Corps, the Alcohol Studies Center, and Alumni. Of particular interest are two groups of folders within the collection. They are the Black Students/ Black Unity folders and the Campus Patrol folders.

On February 17, 1969, the Black Student Unity Movement issued 24 demands of the University. The Unity movement was designed to unite the various black students organizations that existed throughout the Rutgers campuses. Among other things, they demanded the removal of all racist instructors and professors, and the establishment of an Urban Education Department and a Black Studies Department. They later demanded reparations of student fees citing that the services funded by these fees failed to represent the interests of African American students. Rutgers took these issues seriously and several had either already been addressed or were being addressed in committees, but all issues were referred to various committees for consideration. This was not met enthusiastically by other students, as evidenced by petitions signed by students of Rutgers, the College of South Jersey that stated that "We cannot support any pressure group which attempts to secure special privileges for itself; which are not to be enjoyed by the entire student body." These folders are comprised of correspondence, memos, manifestos, and meeting minutes.

The Campus Patrol folders have been subdivided into a main and subseries of documents. The main series, "Campus Patrol," contains correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, reports, and complaints of a more routine nature. The subseries, "Campus Patrol--Investigations," contains campus patrol reports, investigations, and correspondence relating to criminal investigations.

While at Rutgers, Clifford also participated in several professional and service organizations. There are folders dedicated to the American Association for Higher Education, American Association of University Professors, American College Personnel Association, American Council on Education, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. These folders typically contain correspondence between Clifford and other members of the associations, information about conferences, and drafts of papers. There are also two folders entitled "Articles Prepared for Publication: Clifford, Earle W." and Articles Prepared for Publication: Staff." These contain articles authored by Clifford and members of his staff respectively. These articles as well as the letters and memoranda penned by Clifford indicate that he was a gifted writer. Further evidence of this talent is the fact that he was one of the national draftsmen of the American Association of University Professors' Joint Statement on Rights and Freedom of Students. Academic Freedom is a subject that Clifford championed. In addition to the Joint Statement, Clifford also delivered a paper entitled "Student Academic Freedom in the Private Church-Related College" at a Student Personnel Workshop in Wheeling, West Virginia in June 1967.

Clifford was also a civic-minded individual. He was active in Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity in which membership was "granted to college men regularly enrolled in the college or university in which the chapter is located and who are or have been previously affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America." He served on the national Executive Board of this organization from 1966 to 1972. Clifford also served as chairman of the Citizen's Advisory Committee on Recreation, New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1967 to 1968. New Brunswick Mayor Patricia Sheehan personally asked him to participate on this committee. These folders include correspondence, and meeting minutes regarding planning for more parks and recreation space in the city of New Brunswick.

Clifford's personal papers reveal that he was highly regarded not only by his colleagues at Rutgers, but also by his colleagues at Universities throughout the country. These folders primarily contain correspondence, which are often of both a professional and business nature. The letters indicate that by 1968 he may have been growing restless with his position at Rutgers. It was around this time that he was being considered for administrative position at Jersey City State College, York University in Toronto, and the University of Rhode Island. On several occasions Clifford was asked to provide names of candidates for consideration. These folders also contain several letters that focus on the honorary degree bestowed on Clifford by Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey.