Box 1

Scope and Contents:

A very thin file, containing a list of agencies responsible for accreditation. No policy statements or references to issues concerning accreditation.

Scope and Contents: A thick file, bulk dates 1974-1976. Dean Foster, Dean Brownlee and Dean Cobb.The contents of this file concern admissions data for Douglass College in particular and for the other colleges at Rutgers University for comparison purposes.Many of the documents represent statistical reports relating to numbers of admitted students, enrollment figures, SAT scores and HS class rank, and surveys of students admitted but who chose not to enroll.Correspondence...

Scope and Contents: A thick file with documents similar to those found in folder 2.All files created during the tenure of Dean J. P. Cobb exclusively.As in folder 2, contents include reports, memoranda and correspondence concerned with the admissions process - recruitment, processing, and selection - and the outcomes of the process - student enrollment profiles and projections. Issues of concern pertain to employment of various selection standards, minority recruitment, the special needs...

Scope and Contents: Dean Foster, Dean Brownlee, and Dean Cobb.Contents reflect the everyday relations between the Dean of Douglass College and department heads. American Studies was a relatively new department. Requirements for growth had to be tempered with budget restraints. Dean Foster concerned with curriculum development at the macro level. All Dean's involved in executing budget cuts that translated into dropping faculty and staff lines. Special mention made of the department's publication,...

Scope and Contents: Bulk dates 1974-76. Dean Foster.Contents reveal the particular concerns of the Art Dept., such as requests for new studio space and equipment, as well as the typical issues arising between the Dean's office and departments - budgets, faculty/staff line allocations, evaluations, etc. Personnel issues dominate. Documents include mostly memoranda and correspondence. A portion of the documents refer to a hiring issue that became very contentious and unpleasant and involved issues of...