Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, 1910-2008, bulk: 1960's and 1980-2008
Scope and Contents
The Office of Student Affairs Records oversees much of the non-academic student life at Carnegie Mellon University. The collection contains promotional and informational materials related to the various events and programs the division and its departments have organized and sponsored throughout the years. The collection includes informational materials related to on-campus housing; planning materials and promotional fliers for ongoing events like Black History Month, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Campus Week, Orientation, Spring Carnival, and Sweepstakes; correspondence, informational pamphlets, and schedules for programs like Pre-College, Student Health Services, and the Safe Zone program; and a collection of printed materials produced by the Office. This collection is always growing.
Dates
- Creation: 1910-2008
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1960's and 1980-2008
Extent
From the Collection: 20 Linear feet (20 boxes)
Language
From the Collection: English
Overview
This series contains materials from several Office of the Dean of Student Affairs staff members. This series includes annual reports, planning materials, national and CMU-related reports, articles related to national student-protest movements, and materials pertaining to CMU President Jared Cohen’s Multicultural Council in the early 2000s. This series is organized chronologically.
A related collection is the Earle Swank Papers. Swank was the Dean of Men in 1959 and then became the Dean of Student Affairs in 1967.
Repository Details
Part of the Carnegie Mellon University Archives Repository