Series II: Associations
Scope and Contents
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.