Series XII: Student Activities

This series addresses matters concerned with students. It comprises 2.5 linear feet of material contained in 6 Hollister boxes. Categories included range from Admissions to Work Study, with the largest and possibly most interesting groupings dedicated to Admissions, Financial Aid, and the Office of Student Affairs. Box 76 and folders 1-5 of Box 77 consist of documents covering Admissions matters, some of which date from the late 1960's. Associated reports and statistical information in Box 77, folders 4-5 include yearly reports covering the period 1971-1976.

Financial Aid files occupy box 78, folders 9-19 and Box 79, folders 1-5. Transactions concerned with the special undergraduate admissions program funded by NYSED at private institutions throughout the state under the title Higher Education Opportunities Program#(HEOP) appear in folders 11-16. NYU's was the largest program in the state. The University's own financial aid program, supported by internal budget allocations, was called the Martin Luther King Jr. Program. These records in this collection appear in Box 78, folders 18-19.

Box 80, folders 10-17 contain the records of the Office of Student Affairs. The Office was headed by a director at the time these records commence, in 1972; that Director, Jane Maggin, was named Assistant Chancellor for Student Affairs and Housing two year later, 4/13/74, folder 12, as the initiatives and demands of that function grew. The period saw increasing needs to focus, for example, on questions of student life, 8/30/74, folder 11, and 5/16/74, folder 12, management of housing facilities, 9/9/74, 5/29/74 and 12/20/73, folder 12, feeding students, 3/19/73, folder 13, the use of drugs and other criminal activity by or directed toward students, 12/2/74, folder 11, 9/21/73, folder 12, as well as the emerging need to provide recreation facilities for students, Box 27, folder 9.