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Contains minutes, background information sent to members, correspondence, in particular to college and university presidents, membership lists, reports both by the Association's committees and by the University of ACUSNY the State of New York, and the State Education Department, and information concerning special meetings. Prominent topics include the State's need for a state university, 1947-1949; universal military training and manpower utilization, 1947-1949; planning for increased enrollment in 1954-1955 and the 1960s; state aid to private institutions, 1956-1960s; the Board of Regents Master Plan for Education, 1963; Constitutional Convention, 1967; Einstein-Schweitzer chairs, 1970s; improvement of the quality of student administrative services, 1981; perspectives of liberal education, 1984; women in higher education, 1987; reaching common interest in the public interest, 1989.

Contains general correspondence, 1938-1948, correspondence with foundations and out-of-state associations, and reports of ACUSNY committees, meeting minutes, correspondence and reports of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities, 1976, 1982-1984, membership lists, 1948-1962, 1965-1979; incorporation petition, 1972. Also contains information concerning the State Scholarship Program, 1950; two year degree colleges; the central campus issue, 1957; graduate education, 1958; CUNY, 1976; Long Range Planning conference, 1979; the State Education Department, 1979-1980, 1983-1984, 1988; state funding for higher education, 1991; performance standards for postsecundary and adult vocational education programs, 1992.

Contains "The Education of a Teacher," "Introduction to ACUSNY", Newsletters 1980-1984, "News from ACUSNY" 1988-1992, "Communiversity" 1991.