This series documents the development, implementation, and periodic review of Project Renaissance, which was a living-learning program for first year students at the University that ran from 1996 to 2011. The series contains documentation of the grant application process, annual reports, and related correspondence.
This records series contains newsletters from the Albany Graduate Program in Public Administration, 1961-1962. The University Libraries also hold 7 issues of the newsletter (1962-1965). The University Libraries hold issues of several GSPA publications. The University Libraries holds an incomplete run of Rockefeller College Report (1984-1987), a newsletter covering activities of Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. The University Libraries hold one issue of Contact: Undergraduate Political Science Advisor (1988), a Political Science Department publication, and four issues of the Political Science Newsletter (1973-1974). The University Libraries hold seven issues of The Docket (1982-86), a GPSA produced publication of the International Political Science Association (ISPA) Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies. The University Libraries hold seven issues of GSPA Alumni Newsletter (1978-1980, 1983) and three issues of The Public Affair (1976), a publication of the Graduate Student Association of GSPA. The University Libraries hold seven issues of The Helderberg Review (1970-1973), a GSPA published journal featuring graduate student work that began publication in 1970. GSPA Bulletins for 1958-59 through 1978-80 are available in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives. After 1980, school specific bulletins were no longer published, and information can be obtained from the University at Albany Graduate and Undergraduate Bulletins.
The Public Affairs Monograph Series Publications were kept together and placed at the beginning of the series. This records series consists of essays, articles, bibliographies, surveys, study guides, resource guides, workshop materials and monographs. Individual and collaborative projects related to GSPA, or one of GSPA's related centers and institutes, are included in the series.
This series consists primarily of tornado observations and eyewitness accounts solicited from the general public via newspaper advertisements in areas where tornadoes and severe storms frequently occur. They are filed using the original labeling system employed by Dr. Vonnegut, where the date and place of the observation as well as a brief statement on the phenomena is used to identify the observation. Accounts of severe storms found in multiple publications, biblical references, and other historical observations are also present.
The General Subject Files holds a diverse array of materials that passed through the hands of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. This includes campus handbooks and manuals from academic departments and extracurricular activities that needed approval from the office, and articles on issues addressed by the office like sexual harassment.
The Subject Files series contains a variety of materials such as files on the history of the School of Nursing, convocation, newspaper clippings and alumni and graduate surveys.
This series holds papers related to the span of time that the Office of Diversity and Inclusion was known as the Affirmative Action Office. This includes a variety of office based materials such as internal memos, correspondence, articles and reports on harassment, periodicals published and written by the office, and meeting minutes. All relates to the Office's efforts to address racism, sexism, and general prejudice on campus. This series also includes materials related to Gloria DeSole, temporary Acting Director of the Office, before becoming Senior Advisor to the President for Affirmative Action and Employment Planning and still acting as head of The Affirmative Action Office. This included her work with the President's Task force on Women's Safety, Women's Concerns Committee, and the LGB Concerns Committee.
Hannah Applebaum was the GSPA librarian for several years, and this series contains her records. This series consists of the H. Applebaum's files, 1963-1971, and contains course descriptions and reading lists, and a copy of the report of the Search Committee for a Political Science Chairman (1966). The remaining files contain copies of official memos and faculty meeting minutes. The GSPA file contains additional course schedules, memos and copies of The Dean's Report to the Board of Trustees on the First Year (1963), and the Visiting Committee's Report on the Local Government Center (1968).
