Collections : [University Archives]

This series contains videotaped interviews conducted by Maureen Didier with graduates from the Master's of Social Welfare (MSW) classes of 1967 and 1977. Mary McCarthy also conducted interviews with current students in the master's program in 1991. According to the School of Social Welfare Records, attendees of the School's 25th anniversary Convocation on April 11, 1991 informally viewed these interviews during the reception portion of the event.

Series 1 contains materials Dr. Blanchard published while at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the State University of New York at Albany as well as after his retirement. The topics covered by these publications include the history of science, water-to-air transfer, aerobiology, sea salt aerosols, volcanic electricity, and surface charge. There are also materials covering his studies of bubbles, water droplets, and rain. Along with his scientific publications, Dr. Blanchard also wrote letters to editors, comments and replies to articles, book reviews, obituaries, and autobiographical articles. Dr. Blanchard published materials from the early 1950s to the early 2000s but the majority of materials in are from 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

The earliest minutes date from the formation of the Student Association in 1921. They document the Student Association's interest in establishing and maintaining school traditions (1920's and 30's), the Student Association's concern with academic issues such as the establishment of the honor system. These documents give an overview of the management of the organization, and document the Student Association structural change.

This series contains research material including interview transcripts, news clippings, manuscript drafts, and research articles

Collection is made up of the student art publication Observation.

Series is made up of papers from the first iteration of the office as its own entity. Contains memos, correspondence, meeting minutes, and plans for the future of the Equal Employment Oppurtunity Office.

Most materials from this series relate to the period from 1990-2000, during which time Lynn Videcka-Sherman was dean of the School of Social Welfare. These materials represent the day-to-day files from the dean's office, and include correspondence and other communication throughout the series. There is a sizeable amount of materials relating to the National Association of Deans and Directors of Social Work (NADD), including agendas and planning documents for annual meetings. Lynn Videcka-Sherman acted as president of NADD from 1993-1995 and the materials reflect her time with the organization. Other associations represented include the New York State Association of Deans of Social Work Schools and the New York Chapter of the National Association of Social Work.

This series contains the files related to the management of individual overseas academic programs (OAPs) of varying length, from year-long and semester length to summer programs for both current SUNY Albany students and entering freshmen. Contains budget documentation, student activity reports, student program evaluations, Director's correspondence, brochures and informational packets given to students, travel itineraries, planning documentation, program proposals, and site visit reports for potential program locations.

This series is made up Hopkins' correspondence and scrapbooks, as well as correspondence belonging to other members of her family. Collection includes scrapbooks, correspondence, and press clippings. The correspondence includes exchanges between Hopkins and her former student, the Japanese poet Naoshi Koriyama. Series also includes a framed 1842 marriage certificate likely belonging to one of Hopkins' ancestors.