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  • Classification number: 1F
  • Title of Record Series: Commission on the Future of the College
  • Record Group: College
  • Sub Group: Self Studies
  • Date: August, 24, 1973
  • Accession Number: A73-41, A75-42
  • Source: Self Studies
  • Restrictions:
  • Volume: 4 boxes, 21 volumes
  • Restrictions: 3 tapes are restricted
Description:

Records of the Commission on the Future of the College, a commission established by the Board of Trustees composed of 3 administrators, 2 alumnae, 3 faculty members, 3 students and 3 trustees (Mar Ann Dilley Staub '37 chairman; Blair McElroy executive director) to make recommendations concerning the future of the college; dating from 1969 to 1971; consisting of correspondence, reports, questionnaires, clippings, minutes, proposals, lists; concerning budget, possible closer ties to Dartmouth, visits to other colleges, question of co-education, curriculum proposals, admissions, the status of women and Wellesley's role.

Box 1
  • Commission: Budget
  • Commission: Correspondence, Lists, Clippings on Final Report
  • Draft of Final Report (1971)
  • Commission: Meetings with faculty and students (1969)
  • Commission: Minutes and Publicity Releases: May, 1969 - December, 1970
  • Studies: Cost Figures; Counseling
  • Studies: Dartmouth (1970-1971)
  • Studies: Day Care; Dormitory Live
  • Studies: Education and Needs of Women
Box 2
  • Studies: Johnson and Rock Proposals; Kurtz and Foreign Study
  • Studies: Minority Groups; Population Study; Secondary School Study; Suburban-Regional Center
  • Questionnaires
  • Questionnaires: Cunningham and Greyser; Forms
  • Questionnaires: Student Responses, Faculty Responses (Verbatims)
  • Other Proposals: Admissions
  • Other Proposals, etc.: Commission Members Position Papers
Box 3
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Alumnae: student relations, projects
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: E. Barry: music proposal
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Black Studies
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Blake: "The Future"
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Blake: World House
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Blake: "The Role of Wellesley in World Affairs" (a proposal for a Wellesley World Community Institute)
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Boston Theological Institute Proposal
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Building Properties
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Careers of Women Graduates
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Career Services
  • Other Proposals, etc.: I: Colloquium on Women
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Commission Students: 2/9/70 all-college meeting; February 19 statement
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Community service and involvement: Lefkowitz & McElroy
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Consortia, Exchange Programs, Leaves of Absence
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Continuing Education
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Curriculum Committee (MIT & leaves of absence)
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Dartmouth Alumni Council
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Durant Excerpts
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Education and Needs of Men
  • Other Proposals, etc.: II: Environmental: McElroy & Lefkowitz (June, 1970)
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Flasar Omnibus Report, February 1970
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Foreign Exchange Programs, March, 1970
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Giele: 2 papers
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Giele, Janet Z., "Attitudes toward Employment among Educated Women"
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Graduate School Plans
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Graduate Study Questionnaire
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Holland & Ames Letters
  • Other Proposals, etc.: III: Institutes
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Lefkowitz: Flexibility in Evaluation of Student Work
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Lester: Coeducation Paper
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Lever: Future of Wellesley College
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Long-range Plans: Phibbs, Holland, Hobbs, Kiebala (11/70)
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: MIT Exchange
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Pinsky
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Polk: Programs for Black Students
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Saturday Morning Programs
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: SMU Symposium
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Special Programs Involving Work Off Campus
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: "Urgent II": Student comment
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Summer Programs
  • Other Proposals, etc.: IV: Trustees (miscellaneous)
  • Other Proposals, etc.: V: Twelve College Exchange Programs
  • Other Proposals, etc.: V: Women (miscellaneous)
  • Other Proposals, etc.: V: Zimmerman & Clinchy: proposal for an experimental college
  • Other Proposals, etc.: V: College Visits by Commission Members
  • Other Proposals, etc.: V: Data From Colleges Visited: Bowdoin, Connecticut College, Hamilton
  • Other Proposals, etc.: V: Data From Colleges Visited: Smith, Trinity, Vassar
Box 4
  • Background Material: Coeducation
  • Background Material: Coeducation: Pamphlets
  • Background Material: Educational Policy: Student Participation
  • Background Material: Higher Education; Institutions (Arrangements among); Residence, Multiple Campuses
  • Background Material: Women
  • Report to the Trustees, March, 1971 (bound)
  • Report to the Trustees, March, 1971 (bound)
  • Computer print out of Student Survey: Marginals & Initial Crosstabs
  • Computer print out of Alumnae Survey: Crosstabs
Background materials:
  • The Study of Education at Stanford: Report to the University, 1968 (parts I-X, missing parts VI and VIII)
  • Vassar Collage: Report of the Comprehensive Planning Committee, corrected copy, March 1969 (2 copies)
  • Goucher College: The Report of the Committee on the Future of the College, 1969
  • Cedar Crest College: The Conference on the Undergraduate Education of Women, July 9-10, 1969
  • Women in the University of Chicago: Report of the Committee on the University Women, May 1, 1970
  • Report on Men's Education, May 23, 1968
  • The Four School Study: Committee Report, 1968
  • General Federal Support for Higher Education: An Analysis of Five Formulas
  • Connecticut College: Report of the summer planning group, October 10, 1968
  • Coeducation at Smith College: A Report to the President and the College Planning Committee, December, 1969
Restricted: Tapes of Commission - Trustees Meeting, March 22, 1971 (3 tapes)

Created By: Dorothy Brown '09 || Maintained By: Jane Callahan and Ian Graham || Date Created: January 10, 2008 || Last Modified: October 15, 2012