Collections : [University Archives]

Subject Files contain the day-to-day working files of the School of Social Welfare. Correspondence and memoranda, primarily from the dean at the time relating to various topics within the files, are interspersed throughout. Included among the materials are enrollment and admissions data, three and five year plans on the development and management of the school, publications, bulletins, commencement programs and speeches, grant proposals, committee membership and reports, and year-end reports from programs within the School of Social Welfare. Grant proposals include information relating to the proposed Social Work Research Development Center. School Bulletins range from 1965 through 1979. Materials relating to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) include statistical reports and the involvement of Lynn Videcka-Sherman as a board member on the council. Also included are scrapbook materials containing newspaper clippings, information on alumni and student achievements, and a few photos, primarily taken of faculty members. General files from the Continuing Education Program (CEP) are included within this series as well. Please note that not all dates are inclusive.

This series holds materials from the analysis of the faculty and staff of the University, breaking the population down by the gender and race of each member.

This series is made up of press releases issued by the Office and its predecessors. The vast majority of this series is made up of chronological files maintained by the office of press releases, with some of these files also containing press clippings.

Series 2 documents the NOSL (Nighttime/Daylight Optical Survey of Thunderstorm Lightning) experiment, a large-scale project undertaken by NASA during the early 1980s, in which astronauts recorded and documented thunderstorm and lightning activity from the Earth's orbit. Dr. Vonnegut, who proposed the project, utilized the photographs and data in his continuing research on thunderstorms and electrification theory.

Series 2 documents the research Dr. Blanchard conducted while he was working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the State University of New York at Albany. The work that he did while at General Electric is mentioned but not specifically covered. The main focus of Dr. Blanchards research was on the nature of bubbles and water drops but he also conduct studies on volcanic electricity and its effects. To conduct this research, he travelled throughout the Northeast and Hawaii. Along with the research he did in the United States, Dr. Blanchard also traveled internationally to collected data. A large part of his international research was done around Surtsey Volcano in Iceland.

This series contains outcome assessment reports, example surveys to be furnished to students, and departmental self-studies on how best to measure student success in a given major.

The fourth series contains musical and vocal compostions for the operas written by Kastle. Like Series 3, Series 4 is also broken down into subseries according to major works. Most of the subseries contain Masters of Parts, Blues of Parts, or Tissues of Parts as well as Orchestral Scores or Vocal Scores. A large amount of the material found in this series is undated.

This series consists of a day file on public administration and policy. Many of the records deal with the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) Political Science Department Report (1978). The records also include information regarding recruitment, faculty, courses, a proposal for a symposium in public policy, and the political science department.