Collections : [University Archives]

This series includes several years' worth of formal posed portraits and composites of the whole sorority, as well as candids contributed from individuals. There are several complete scrapbooks, both the "official" scrapbooks kept by the sorority historians each year and personal scrapbooks from sorority members. This series also includes several folders containing loose materials initially housed within scrapbooks, such as photographs, programs, invitations and other keepsakes.

This series contains materials relating directly to the activities and programs of the Center for Community Studies. Topics of interest include action research projects, extensive course materials, the Three Wishes Project, the development of educational television, the New York State Citizens' Council, the Poliomyelitis Project of 1956, in-school testing materials, student and faculty questionnaires and study notes, materials on different areas in which CCS was of service to the wider community, student papers and projects, the Study of Opinions on Medicine and Child Health of 1956, the University-Community Cooperation Project, and materials on workshops given by CCS. This series is restricted due to the inclusion of student material. Consult a member of the Department of Special Collections and Archives' staff for further details.

This series contains an partial run of the daily correspondence for three Deans of Undergraduate Studies who served between 1982 and 1993: Leonard Lapinski, Harry Hamilton, and Sung Bok Kim. This correspondence was kept in binders organized by year, and this arrangement has been preserved. Topics addressed include grading policies and specific grading actions, registration policies, program and course revisions, personnel issues, budget decisions, and other policy issues that affect undergraduate education.

Additional administrative records.

The Central Council Bills are complete for the period from 1965 to 2013. Bills from 2019-2020 are also available, but there is a gap between 2013 and 2019 where records were not transferred from the Student Association. This series contains bills passed by the Central Council which is the legislative body of the student government. The bill relate to appropriations, budgets, recognition of student organizations, resolutions relating to local, state, national and international issues, student government reorganizations. The bills dating from 1978-79 to 1988-1989 are bound and indexed from 1978-1979 through 1985-1986. The bills dating from 2019-2020 are born-digital.

This series consists of scrapbooks kept by the sorority to document activities as well as objects used by the sorority and bearing the Phi Delta seal.

Series 2 primarily consists of records pertaining to structural and organizational changes at the ASP in the late 1970s. Several records, including memoranda from Editor-in-Chief Stephen Dzinanka and Managing Editor Spence Raggio, relate to the ASP 's transition to an independent organization. Applications, correspondence, and blueprints relating to space allocations and proposed office alterations can be found in the "Space" folder. Most of the blueprints are oversized items and stored in separate flat files. Additional contents of note include: by-laws of the Albany Student Press Corporation, the ASP 's constitution, a contract between the ASP and the University Photo Service, and general accident insurance policies.

This series contains newsletters and brochures, materials developed for conferences and seminars and faculty research publications.