EOP and Black Power 1969 April 11 Editorial comments note the impact of the EOP on increasing the empowerment of the black community through access to higher education.
Students Protest Tenure Decisions 1969 May Student protests lead to the one year extension of contracts of two popular faculty members: Dr. Waterman and Mrs. Rhoads. Collins bases his decision on the students’ inability to make their voices heard in the Psychology Department’s tenure proceedings on the two faculty members. This was the...
"Black Rhetoric" Course to Debut in Spring 1970 1969 May 16 Offered by the Rhetoric and Public Address Department, and to be taught by Dr. James Smoot, the Assistant Vice-Chancellor of SUNY and Coordinator of Urban Centers and Special Programs with the Central Administration, including the Education Opportunities Program (EOP).
Students Admitted To Senate 1969 September Students admitted to voting membership (1/3) in the Faculty Senate, subsequently renamed the University Senate. Previously they had only been admitted to councils and committees.
"Guidelines For Campus Order" 1969 September SUNY Board of Trustees draw up "Guidelines for Campus Order." The rules bar physical injury or restraint, willful damage to property, the willful entering of private offices, use of buildings for anything outside their authorized use, staying in buildings after closing without authorization,...
Congressman Ogden Reed Speaks At Vietnam Moratorium Day 1969 October 15 Vietnam Moratorium Day at SUNYA: Congressman Ogden Reed speaks and names of US Vietnam War dead are read for six hours on the Podium.
Student Senator Introduces Bill to Investigate Albany High School Protest Incident 1969 November 21 After university students join a November 12th protest of black students for equal treatment at Albany High School, the meeting is forcibly dispersed by the police. Later in the month, student Senator Steve Villano introduced a bill to the University Senate that asked for that body to call upon...
Draft Counseling 1970 January 8 Student Association Central Council votes to set up a draft counseling library in its office. In February the SA acts to sponsor draft counseling.