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University Archives

University Archives

Records that document the history of the University at Albany, SUNY and its predecessor schools.
The University Archives documents the history of the University at Albany, SUNY from its origin in 1844 as the New York State Normal School to train teachers for New York State to its present status as a comprehensive research university. The department collects, manages, and provides access to permanent university records for research use. This includes the administrative records of the university, student groups, faculty, alumni, and affiliated organizations. Collecting and preserving university records documents our history and promotes transparency and accountability.

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Consist primarily of retained records of the Council of Deans (1980-81), SCJ Faculty Meeting minutes (1977-1981), as well as files relating to faculty merit increases, recruitment, salaries, work load. See also the Donald Newman Papers School of Criminal Justice File for his collection of SCJ faculty meeting minutes (1968-, 1984-89), and committee minutes. Additional records in this series include:

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This series contains information related to University events such as Commencement and Convocation, Alumni dinners, dedications of various rooms and buildings on the downtown campus (including the Dewey Library), a history of the downtown campus, its buildings, and the graduate schools incorporated into Rockefeller College, as well as information and inventories of the Rockefeller College Art Collection. This series also includes a number of promotional and informational publications created by Rockefeller College, including the Colleges' newsletter—RC Report. Additionally there are a number of photographs (prints, contact sheets, and negatives), as well as newspaper clippings related to events held at Rockefeller College and one audio cassette tape.

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This series contains files on courses taught by Rienow in the School of Public Policy and Affairs and the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany. The materials in this series include syllabi, lecture notes, examinations, and student papers. Related correspondence and clippings are also included. Files are arranged by course number, when known. There are several folders of final examinations not sorted by course number, as well as two folders of lecture notes and miscellaneous materials with no course number identified.

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On Monday, June 20, 1949 approximately 300 members of the Class of 1949 received their bachelor's degrees during a morning ceremony in Page Hall. Alvin Christian Eurich, president, State University of New York, served as commencement speaker and conferred the degrees. In the days leading to commencement, the class held a Senior Banquet at Herbert's, a Senior Ball at the Aurania Club, Class Day Exercises at Page Hall followed that evening by the Class Sing and Torchlight Procession at Draper Hall, and finally, a senior breakfast on the morning of graduation at the Boulevard Cafeteria.

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An offshoot of John Cronin's People Pipewatch, Albany Peoples Pipewatch was housed in the Department of Fine Arts of the State University of New York at Albany. Its volunteers monitored discharge pipes leading to the Hudson River and compared the resulting effluents to the allowable limits in the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits. This series contains mostly NPDES Notices and drafts of the permits and are indexed by the company owning the discharge pipe.