These files, as noted previously, both are alphabetical and contain the Borowitz and accompanying Cartter Correspondence files as a subseries, Boxes 13 through 18. The series, largest of the collection, comprising 7.5 linear feet, offers what may be regarded as an overview of the Borowitz years. Some material is complementary to larger accumulations within subsequent series'. This will readily be observed in reviewing contents of Legislative Relations, Box 7, folder 11 through Box 8, folder 8, Federal Relations, Box 6, folders 812 in conjunction with those classified as Government Relations, Box 40, folder 11 through Box 46, folder 14. Contrarily, other material stands alone. Some examples are the folders labeled Appointment, Chancellor Borowitz, Box 3, folder 1 through Chancellor's Office, Administrative Advisory Committee, Box 3, folder 11, and Library, Box 8, folder 4 through Box 9, folder 9.

Box 1 incorporates material relating to general academic and administrative matters. One notable instance is the topic of deans' review of vice presidential areas, folder 6. Box 2 contains Cartter testimony, 3/29/71, before the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Subcommittee, sounding the alarm on the extent of financial difficulties within the higher education community, folder 12. Box 3 includes a copy of a report titled, "Effecting Economies in Higher Education," 8/73, addressing higher education's financial difficulties through the medium of case studies of New York University and Michigan State University (MSU), conducted by a MSU presidential staff member, folder 12.

In Box 6, folder 4, there is a memorandum from Vice-President for Academic Planning and Services L. Jay Oliva to President Sawhill, 2/27/76, presenting a set of critical issues for institutional attention. Borowitz correspondence, Box 13, folder 16, contains views on the loss of the School of Engineering, and the effect of "past adversities" on (the University's) "destinies;" in Box 14, he addresses merger negotiations, folder 10, and relations with City College, folder 13.

Other contents reflect Borowitz responsibility vis a vis the President's Office, other officers, schools and departments, and assorted initiatives under central administration purview. Box 17 offers some indication of the Borowitz personality and style, while Box 18, folders 1-7 provides a miscellany indicative of his working relationships with Dr. Hester and Dr. Sawhill.

This series of 1.66 linear feet reflects a universe of external organizations concerned with higher education matters, both on the national and on the local scene, and memberships held and declined by the University. This series' contents offer insights into the University's interests and roles in that wider world. A set of Higher Education and National Affairs newsletters, 3/74-2/76, 3/77-4/77, published by the American Council on Education (ACE), provides an overview of the national context in which the higher education community was then functioning.

Material contained in Box 19, folder 1, makes manifest that limitations on extramural involvements that might otherwise have been welcome were driven by internal financial concerns, with oversight of unit and school decisions at the executive level. Matters concerned with the University and its accreditation agency, the Middle States Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools, Commission on Higher Education, are located in Box 20, folders 7-8, including the Middle States Association Report on its visit to the University 11/18-21/73.

Memberships in Washington, D.C.-based higher education associations of importance to university interests were in the American Council on Education (ACE), Box 19, folders 5-8 and the Association of American Universities (AAU), Box 19, folders 12-15. Further information, often detailing NYU interests, appears in Box 6, folders 8-12.

At the state level, relevant memberships were in the Association of Colleges & Universities of the State of New York (ACUNY), Box 19, folder 16, and most actively in the ACUNY subset Commission on Independent Colleges & Universities (CICU), Box 19, folder 17 and Box 20, folders 1-2. Additional materials reflecting particular university interests at the state level can be found in Box 7, folders 11-14, and Box 8, folders 1-3.

Records of membership in two discipline focused associations, both of which required institutional commitments at the executive level, and which were affected by the University's financial problems, are located in Box 21, folders 1-2, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and in Box 22, folders 4-7, the New York Ocean Science Laboratory of Affiliated Colleges and Universities, Inc.

This series comprises 1.25 linear feet and is structured to reflect several major aspects of the portfolio of the Senior Vice President for External Affairs, namely: Alumni Affairs; the Bicentennial Committee; Development, including donor solicitation and acknowledgment correspondence and foundation relations; the NYU Press; and the Office of the Senior Vice President.

Notable materials include meeting minutes of the NYU Committee on the (United States) Bicentennial, Box 23, folders 3-4, a draft development campaign mission statement, "A View of Our Responsibilities and Our Opportunities," 3/7/73, Box 23, folder 5, NYU's proposal to the Ford Foundation for an Emergency Fund Grant to support reorganization and retrenchment programs, 7/5/72, and its undated final narrative report, 11/75? Box 24, folders 2-3, Borowitz on the role of a university press, 11/9/76, Box 25, folders 1,4, NYU Press Statement of Purpose, 3/19/76, Box 25, folder 4.

The contents of this modest series (.83 linear feet) provide some perspective on the University's plant and associated services and cost concerns. Selected information about academic building maintenance and renovation, Bobst Library, bookstores, computer services, energy needs, housing, planning a student recreation facility, and security appears. Of particular interest is a miscellany of materials concerned with the physical property at the University Heights campus and its disposition, Box 27, folder 12.

The finances series (2.5 linear feet) includes several matters of note. Box 28, folder 9 contains a paper, "Reflections on Budget Policy, " addressing the loss of the University Heights campus, by Professor Ernest Bloch of GBA, 6/73? Documents in Box 29, folders 1-4, affirm the presence of Vice President for Finance Allan Claxton, appointed 12/75 by President Sawhill and signaling an important shift in responsibility for fiscal matters from the Chancellor.

Additionally, two subseries were created: Subseries I: Taskforce on the Financial Emergency, Box 29, folders 11-12, and Box 30, folders 1-4; Subseries II: University Heights Campus Disposition, Box 31, folders 1-12, Box 32, folders 1-14, Box 33, folders 1-5. Materials in Box 29, folders 11-12, describe the scope of the University's financial problems in 1975.

Materials in Box 30, folders 1-5, reflect in part an attempt by NYU to set up a program of engineering education in collaboration with PIB. Box 32, folders 3-4, contains correspondence with NYSED concerning NYU-PIB merger efforts, including, in folder 4, a rejected Hester hand-edited draft agreement, covering so-called negotiable and non-negotiable merger conditions. A summary of agreements reached, including minutes, appears in Box 32, folder 12.

Further highlighted contents follow Subseries I, namely a collection of materials addressing University finances 1966-1972, created for the Chancellor by Samuel T. Burneson of the President's Office, Box 30, folders 5-11.

This series derives its content from the machinery through which the University conducted its business. Within its 3.33 linear feet are materials from primary operating systems (Board of Trustees, President's and Officers' Groups, University Senate), and documents descriptive of initiatives driving their evolution. Faculty union organizing efforts and the transfer of institutional direction from Dr. Hester to Dr. Sawhill had important internal effects, while federal rulemaking governing universities receiving federal funds, for example in the arena of affirmative action, was an important external stimulus for internal change. Materials for/from the above-identified groups as well as a variety of Councils and Commissions, some structural, some topical, are included. The presence of certain materials may signify particular interests of the Chancellor. Agendas may be helpful in identifying and tracking selected topics.

Formulating institutional agreement on the functions of the (University) Senate was an important governance matter. Box 38, folder 1, contains Report Number Two of a special senate committee on senate powers, 4/10/74, and a response by Dr. Borowitz, 4/30/74. In its report the committee addressed to the Senate its analysis of the question of "proper division of authority among the Board of Trustees, President and Chancellor, Senate, and individual schools," presenting for its consideration a set of "Alternative Models for Development of the Powers of the Senate." Dr. Borowitz, in turn, spells out "philosophical as well as practical difficulties" in administering the University under the proposed model.

Consideration of some of these concerns, including Senate powers, was ongoing. The 3/15/76 agenda for the President's Weekly Meeting carries a listing of a report on governance by Dr. Borowitz, Box 37, folder 5. "A Report on Governance," by Dr. Borowitz appears again, on the 8/25/76 agenda of the President's Joint Meeting of Deans and Vice Presidents, Box 37, folder 4, where a text is also located.

University financial matters occupied the Budget Advisory Group between October 1972 and July 1975. A chronological set of agendas, many annotated or "doodled" on by Dr. Borowitz, many with attachments, permits a survey of issues the group considered, Box 33, folder 14, and Box 34, folder 1. An alphabetical, handwritten list suggests that in addition to officers, there were 70 participants, mainly faculty, along with a few students, Box 34, folder 1. A note in Dr. Borowitz' hand on an undated memorandum (summer '75) marks its termination, Box 33, folder 14.

Continuing attention to university financial matters by the University Senate can be observed in the deliberations and transactions of its Budget Policies Committee, Box 38, folders 11-12, and Box 39, folders 1-5. This committee functioned throughout Dr. Borowitz' term. A name change, from Budget Policies Committee to Financial Affairs Committee, took place effective 9/76. Agendas, again many annotated or "doodled" on by Dr. Borowitz, memoranda, and reports appear; chronological sets of minutes have been transferred to RG 14. The committee's level of involvement can be evaluated by assessing the directness of Chancellor Cartter's memorandum to it of 2/22/72, addressing the dimensions of the University's financial difficulties, and Committee Vice-chair Dr. Ernest Bloch's memorandum of 12/1/72, reporting on deans' responses to a Borowitz query about school budget-making practices, Box 39, folder 5.

A spectrum of educational matters and the machinery employed and/or created to address them can be tracked through the transactions of the Senate's Educational Policies Committee, Box 39, folders 6-9, Councils and Commissions, All-University Commission on Student Evaluation of Undergraduate Courses, Box 34, folders 8-10, Councils and Commissions, Commission on Undergraduate Education, Box 35, folders 2-8, and Councils and Commissions, Graduate Commission, Box 36, folders 1-9.

The emergence of a representational body of middle management staff, with roots in the student unrest era of the late 1960's, is somewhat detailed in Box 34, folders 4-7.

This series of 2.91 linear feet represents university administration's relationships and transactions with federal, state, and local government entities. As noted above in another context, aspects of these relationships can be found as well in Box 5, folders 6-9, Box 6, folders 8-12, Box 7, folders 11-14, and Box 8, folders 1-3.

Many of the interactions at the federal level are routine. Included in these records though are materials covering planning for, requesting, negotiating, receiving, and administering a nationally competitive Science Development Grant from the National Science Foundation for the improvement of the physics and psychology departments in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Box 41, folders 7-12, through Box 43, folder 4.

NYU received a total of $6,100,000 for this project, $4,560,000 in 6/69 and $1,600,000 in supplemental funds, 6/72. Among these documents are minutes of an internal Science Development Committee which indicate the struggle for an institutional strategy, Box 43, folder 1, correspondence from President Hester to NSF officials candidly describing the University's general situation, 4/9/74, 4/13/72 and 4/5/72, (the latter letter also discusses the grant's impact on the University, this project got underway at the time of great financial difficulties and was affected in a variety of ways by those difficulties), proposals (1967, 1972) following folder 2, annual reports, and the University's final report on this grant, Box 41, folder 7.

The local government material is extremely limited and routine. Within the modest collection concerned with the University's relations with the City University of New York, a Borowitz letter, 7/11/73, Box 43, folder 9, probably sums up the nature of the relationship. In contrast, the University's dealings with New York State, and most particularly the State Education Department, are extensive.

NYU's financial difficulties and the search for remedies brought it into close touch with the Department and its leadership during this period. Notable documents include university reports on use of Aid/Bundy funds, Box 44, folders 9-10, an address by Dr. Hester to the Regents' Seventh Annual Conference, 2/18/71, its submission for the CICU State Master Plan for Higher Education 1972, Box 45, folder 6, Professor Arnold Goren's commentary on a Regents Regional Coordinating Council Executive Committee meeting 7/18/75, an 11/71 NYSED report: "NYU: A Major Private Institution in Trouble A Report to the Board of Regents," Box 46, folder 3, NYU 5 Year Financial Plan(9/72-8/77), Box 46, folder 4, NYU 1976 Master Plan, Box 46, folder 11.

This series of 2.5 linear feet is something of an alphabetical, and topical, smorgasbord, beginning with Academic Change, Box 47, folder 1, and finishing with Women's Studies, Box 52, folder 26. It represents in the main a collection whose organizing principle might be characterized as "Is There Anything Here for Us?" Material is commonly in the form of newspaper, journal and news service clippings. Much of the content was identified in, or in the case of reports, prepared in the office of the Vice President for Academic Planning and Services.

One interesting assemblage, Box 49, folders 11-18, is material enabling the tracking of the development and outcomes of a University Goals Conference convened by Dr. Hester and titled "New York University 1981." The concluding "Goals Statement," discussed and amended by the University Senate, 10/31/75, is located in Box 49, folder 11. It reflects upon the decade the University emerged from in 1974 and projects its ambitions and goals for the decade ahead. By contrast, a copy of a "Report for the Decade Ahead 1964-1973," by Dr. Hester, found in Box 49, folder 18, projects forward from the pre-crisis vantage point of 1964.