Seven College Vocational Workshops, 1962-1970

Abstract:

This collection consists of materials related to the Seven College Vocational workshops, which was a series workshops geared towards older women college graduates who wanted to enter or re-enter the job market.

Extent:

7.51 Linear Feet 14 document boxes

Language:

English .

Scope and content:

This collection contains completed participant application forms, files on participants containing questionnaires in which participants reported on their progress and evaluated their workshop experiences, correspondence, resumes, photographs, and essays.

The colleciton also includes lists of participants, board members, committee members, and members of the advisory council, along with correspondence, budgets, brochures, reports, newsletters, notes, photographs, workshop schedules, and bibliographies, all relating to the administration of the workshops.

Also of note are documentary interviews of 1964 workshop participants produced by ABC News.

Biographical / historical:

The Seven College Vocational Workshops were geared towards older women college graduates who wanted to enter or re-enter the job market. The workshop was founded in 1962 and funded by the Carnegie Corporation. The board was made up of representatives of Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College. The workshops were held at Barnard College.

Acquisition information:

The acquisition date and source is unknown.

Processing information:

This collection is unprocessed.

Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Encoding: Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.

Finding aid written in English.

Arrangement:

Collection is arrranged alphabetically by last name.

Accruals:

No additions are expected.

Physical location:

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Access to material dated 50 years or less prior to current date is restricted.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard College Archives. The Barnard College Archives approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.

Preferred citation:: Seven College Vocational Workshops, 1962-1970; Box and Folder; Barnard College Archives, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Location of this collection:: Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Archives & Special Collections
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
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