Administrative efforts to increase racial diversity, to incorporate Africana Studies into the curriculum, and to include the African American Center as part of campus life, are document through the files and reports of numerous College committees.
Contain annual reports, correspondence, files relating to events sponsored by the program (especially the John Brown Russwurm and Albert C. Boothby Lecture series), files concerning the divestment of the College's investments in South Africa, and a 1976 survey of New England College Black Studies Programs.
Subject files relate to special programs, events and defunct committees. Included are memos, reports, guest lists, program plans, budget and cost files. The series contains all the general correspondence of the Deans of Faculty. Most materaiisl are closed for 75 years from date of creation.
Includes material concerning the founding of the Africana Studies Program as well as subsequent reports on the program's curriculum and administration.
Contains administrative, program, and committee files from the Office of the Dean of Student Life. Exchange programs and career counseling are included; and documentation on work of committees such as Status of Women, Strategic Planning, Civil Rights Compliance; also, correspondence on ongoing issues and special events, such as James Bowdoin Day. Closed for 75 years from date of creation.
Includes general office correspondence regarding College affairs. Noteworthy are files relating to the Africana Studies Program, CBB educational television, the 175th Anniversary Capital Campaign, coeducation, ROTC, the Senior Center, and the May 1970 Student Strike. Some materials may be restricted.
The 1993 external review of the Africana Studies program, as well as the self-study that the Committee on Afro-American Studies conducted, both provide an overview of the first twenty-five years of the program.
