Collections : [University Archives]

The Board of Finance records 2019-20 contain agendas; budget documents including the 2019-20 final budget, budget presenations, club budgets, and budgets rubrics; documents pertaining to vendor contracts, the Financial investigation into the 2019-20 Student Association president, and Senate bills drafted by the Board of Finance; Board of Finance meeting minutes and executive session minutes; and transition materials intended for the 2020-21 Student Association Executive Board. There are also three pictures of the 2019-20 Board of Finance members.

This series contains records created by Richard Farrell, who served as Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies. Much of the material consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, and supporting materials for the Enrollment Management Committee. Additional topics include: student surveys, program accreditation and evaluation, and five-year planning documentation.

This series is comprised of files on organizations and subjects that were of interest to Rienow. Groups include Defenders of Wildlife, Zero Population Growth, the Nature Conservancy, and Citizens to Save the Adirondack Park. Topics include deforestation and land use, wildlife protection, overpopulation, national wealth, nuclear fallout and the problems of atomic energy, and various forms of pollution. The files contain mostly notes, news clippings, articles, mailings, and publications. There are also files related to government agencies, such as the Department of the Interior and the United States National Treasury. These files consist mainly of government publications on environmental policies and issues, as well as some publications on the structures of the agencies. A few files relate to political science topics.

This series documents the Office of Diversity and Inclusion's Implementation of new Section 504 guidelines, which prohibits discrimination of individuals based on a disability. In this series can be found results of self-studies of the University, reports from the 504 Task Force on success of the program, and future plans to amend employment and admissions practices on campus.

Publications within this series are products of the Continuing Education Program (CEP). These publications represent a major function of the CEP through its development of instructional resources for use in social welfare agencies and educational institutions. Topics covered within these publications include income maintenance, education, health and fitness, rehabilitation, corrections, child welfare, gerontology, staff development, public housing, employment, and industrial social work. Please see box 3 folder 16 for the Guide to Continuing Education Program Publications, which lists all publications created up until ca. 1980. This guide also contains additional information about the functions and goals of the CEP. Please note that this series contains only CEP publications; general files relating to the Continuing Education Program are located in the Subject Files series.

During its time on campus, the Class of 1964 witnessed numerous changes. The school name changed from State University of New York College of Education at Albany (September 1, 1959 - October 16, 1961) to the State University of New York College at Albany (October 16, 1961 - August, 1962) to the State University of New York at Albany (August 1962 - Fall 1986). The groundbreaking ceremony for construction on the new Uptown Campus was held in August 1962. In September 1962 the school admitted its first freshmen non-teacher preparatory students as candidates for bachelor of arts degrees in Liberal Arts and Sciences. The 1963 yearbook was the first to be named theTorch. The school newspaper State College News became the State University News in February 1963 and the Albany Student Press in February 1964. In addition, one of the most noticeable changes was the assessment of tuition for the first time in the Fall of 1963. This event and related student protests are chronicled in the yearbooks and Class of 1964 Senior Record.

This series consists of correspondence relating to the creation of a variety of research centers and institutes, memorandum regarding graduate student recruitment and travel guidelines, departmental employee salary information as well as meeting minutes for a number of committees with which the office was associated.

Series 4 documents Dr. Vonnegut's work with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT) in Socorro, New Mexico. While both were employed at Arthur D. Little, he and fellow scientist Charles Moore were invited to conduct thunderstorm research at Mt. Withington, eventually becoming part of the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research in Socorro. Moore stayed at NMIMT, and Dr. Vonnegut moved on to the State University of New York at Albany; though their collaborative research continued for the entirety of each other's career.