Series I. Governance
Series I. Governance consists of materials regarding the establishment of the committee, elections, membership, minutes, and other related material. Some folders of minutes also have additional documents, which were handed out at meetings or correspondence relating to subjects of meetings. The folder of JCDA Authority includes a copy of the Trustees' resolution disbanding the JCDA and the college tribunals and the superceding of the Interim Rules by the Rules of University Conduct. Two folders contain reports and statistics prepared by the Subcommittee of the JCDA. The JCDA created this subcommittee at the 9 January 1970 meeting to "review its operation and procedures. The subcommittee began its work, through the medium of its secretary, by compiling a summary of the actions taken under the Interim Rules of September 12, 1968. The results of this labor may be seen in five tables accompanying" the report in the records.
Box 1 Folder 1
Bylaws, Approved, 1971
Box 1 Folder 2
Bylaws, Development of, 1970-1971
Box 1 Folder 3
Bylaws, Election Annex to, 1971
Box 1 Folder 4
Delegate List, 1970
Box 1 Folder 5
Elections, Correspondence and Reports, 1970-1972
Box 1 Folder 6
Elections, Fall 1968 1968, 1968, 1968
Box 1 Folder 7
Enabling Documents, 1968-1969
Box 1 Folder 8
JCDA Authority, 1968-1973
Box 1 Folder 9
Mailing Lists, 1968-1969
Box 1 Folder 10
Membership Lists and Directories, 1968-1972
Box 1 Folder 11
Minutes, 1968
Box 1 Folder 12
Minutes, 1969
Box 1 Folder 13
Minutes, 1970 January -May, 1970
Box 1 Folder 14
Minutes, 1970 June -December, 1970
Box 1 Folder 15
Minutes, 1971
Box 1 Folder 16
Minutes, 1972 January -September, 1972
Box 1 Folder 17
Minutes, 1972 October -November, 1972
Box 1 Folder 18
Minutes, 1972 December, 1972
Box 1 Folder 19
Minutes, 1973 February, 1973
Box 1 Folder 20
Minutes, 1973 March-April, 1973
Box 1 Folder 21
Minutes on the 25 Man Rule, 1970-1971
Box 1 Folder 22
Room and Space Utilization, 1968-1972
Box 1 Folder 23
Search Committee for Tribunal Legal Officer, 1971
Box 1 Folder 24
Subcommittee Study of Discipline System, 1968
Box 1 Folder 25
Subcommittee Work and Statistics, 1969-1972
Box 1 Folder 26
Trustees, 1968-1969
Series II. Interim Rules
Series II. Interim Rules contains the various drafts of the Interim Rules as well as the proposed revisions to the Rules by faculty and administrators. This series also includes a distribution list, containing the names of the individuals to whom the Committee sent drafts and an index to the rules.
Box 1 Folder 27
Distribution List, 1969
Box 1 Folder 28
Index, 1972
Box 1 Folder 29
Legal Case References Found In, 1967
Box 1 Folder 30
Proposed Revisions by Prof. Reinmuth, 1968-1969
Box 2 Folder 1
Proposed Revisions to, 1968-1972
Box 2 Folder 2
Replies from Faculty to Proposal, 1968-1969
Box 2 Folder 3
Replies from Faculty to August 8 Proposal, 1968
Box 2 Folder 4
Versions, 1968-1971
Box 2 Folder 5
Working Paper, 1968
Series III. Tribunal Manual
Series III. Tribunal Manual contains drafts of the "Manual for Tribunal Procedure" and "Setting Up a Disciplinary Tribunal" and proposed revisions by faculty and administrators. Also includes notes and transcripts from hearings regarding the revision of the manual.
Box 2 Folder 6
Proposed Revisions, 1970
Box 2 Folder 7
Proposed Revisions, 1971-1972
Box 2 Folder 8
Revision Hearings, 1972-1973
Box 2 Folder 9
1970 Version, 1970, 1970, 1970
Box 2 Folder 10
1972 Version, 1972, 1972, 1972
Series IV. Correspondence
Series IV. Correspondence consists of the correspondence of various University faculty and administrators involved with the Committee as well as folders of correspondence with committee members and the University Senate. The folder of general correspondence contains correspondence with the Office of the Registrar regarding noting suspensions on official student transcripts. The folder titles in this series have not been altered.
Box 2 Folder 11
Quentin Anderson, 1968-1970
Box 2 Folder 12
Committee Members, 1968-1973
Box 2 Folder 13
President Cordier, 1968-1970
Box 2 Folder 14
Discipline of Faculty, 1968-1971
Box 2 Folder 15
General, 1968-1973
Box 2 Folder 16
Serge Lang, 1968
Box 2 Folder 17
President McGill, 1971-1973
Box 2 Folder 18
Peripheral, 1968-1972
Box 2 Folder 19
Tribunal Legal Officer, 1968-1972
Box 2 Folder 20
David Truman, 1968
Box 2 Folder 21
University Senate, 1969-1970
Box 2 Folder 22
University Senate, 1971-1972
Series V. Statements and Press Releases
Series V. Statements and Press Releases contains press releases and statements mostly by the JCDA, but also from the Office of Public Information. There is one entire file of press releases from the Office of Public Information released during the riots and protests in the spring of 1968. The series also includes public statistical reports on the disciplinary system.
Box 2 Folder 23
Press Releases, 1967-1970
Box 3 Folder 1
Press Releases on "Crisis", 1968
Box 3 Folder 2
Statements, 1968-1972
Box 3 Folder 3
Chairman's Statement, 1968
Box 3 Folder 4
Statistical Report on Disciplinary System, 1970
Series VI. Individual Cases
Series VI. Individual Cases comprises the bulk of the collection and documents the appeals and tribunal hearings of various individual students charged with violating the Interim Rules. This includes correspondence between students, counsel, and University administrators. Within individual appeal files is correspondence relating to the organization and efficiency of the tribunal. There are letters from faculty, administrators, counsel, and students who agree or disagree with the process in regard to a particular appeal, but also have broader context. Some appeal folders for individual cases include transcripts of appeal hearings and the original college tribunal hearings. Individual cases are arranged alphabetically by the student's last name.
Box 3 Folder 5
Appeals and Complaints, General, 1969-1971
Box 3 Folder 6
Appeals, Interdivisional, 1969
Box 3 Folder 7
Appeals, Summary Reports, 1968-1970
Box 3 Folder 8
Decision and Summary Booklets, 1970
Box 3 Folder 9
Tribunal Master Lists, 1968-1972
Box 3 Folder 10
Worksheets for Tribunal Study, 1968-1971
Box 3 Folder 11-30
Student files
Box 4
Student files
Box 5
Student files
Box 6 Folder 1-13
Student files
Series VII. College Tribunals
Series VII. College Tribunals contains the correspondence, reports, and cases of each individual college or school disciplinary tribunal. These college tribunals held the initial student hearings for the violation of the Interim Rules. The folders of Columbia College cases include some correspondence with President Cordier indicating the ineffectiveness of the college level tribunals. Also includes a critique of the tribunal by Ralph Allemano, chairman of the Columbia College tribunal from February 1969 to March 1970. The folder of "College Tribunals-General" contains statistics and lists of cases pending or closed from the various school tribunals.
Box 6 Folder 14
General, 1968-1970
Box 6 Folder 15
Procedure and Structure for Tribunal Hearings, 1968-1970
Box 6 Folder 16
School of Architecture, 1968
Box 6 Folder 17
School of the Arts, 1968-1969
Box 6 Folder 18
Barnard Judicial Council, 1972
Box 6 Folder 19
Columbia College, General, 1968-1972
Box 6 Folder 20
Columbia College Cases, 1968
Box 6 Folder 21
Columbia College Cases, 1969-1970
Box 6 Folder 22
Columbia College Cases, 1972-1973
Box 6 Folder 23
School of Engineering, 1968-1972
Box 6 Folder 24
General Studies, 1968-1973
Box 6 Folder 25
Graduate Faculties, General, 1968-1973
Box 6 Folder 26
Graduate Faculties, Philosophy, 1968-1969
Box 6 Folder 27
Graduate Faculties, Political Science, 1968-1969
Box 6 Folder 28
Graduate Faculties, Pure Science, 1968-1970
Box 6 Folder 29
School of International Affairs, 1968-1972
Box 6 Folder 30
School of Journalism, 1969
Box 6 Folder 31
School of Library Service, 1972
Box 6 Folder 32
College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1968-1970
Box 6 Folder 33
School of Social Work, 1969-1970
Series VIII. Assorted Materials
Series VIII. Assorted Materials consists of the JCDA's subject files, chronological files, and miscellaneous materials. The series is divided into three sub-series: Subseries 1. Miscellaneous, Subseries 2. Subject Files, and Subseries 3. Chronological files.
Subseries VIII.1. Miscellaneous
Subseries 1. Miscellaneous contains published materials, blank forms and other items.
Box 6 Folder 34
25 Man Rule, 1970-1971
Box 6 Folder 35
Appellant Information Sheets (unused), undated
Box 6 Folder 36
Criminal Action, 1972
Box 6 Folder 37
Executive Committee of the Faculty, 1968
Box 6 Folder 38
Faculty Response, 1968
Box 6 Folder 39
Injunctions, 1969-1970
Subseries VIII.2. Subject Files
Subseries 2. Subject Files were maintained as a group of informative material on various subjects directly or indirectly relating to the Committee's work. For example, the subject files have a folder of minutes of the University Committee on Rules of Conduct. These are records of another committee, but copies were kept by the JCDA for reference purposes. Of particular significance is the Deane and Connor Paper on Discipline written by Herbert A. Deane, vice provost for academic planning, and James E. Connor, assistant professor of government. The working paper evaluated the disciplinary system created by the University after the 1968 protests. The Students for a Restructured University (SRU) have a response to this paper in the subject files, as well. The 25 Man Rule documents part of the discussion and controversy over the rule. The rule revolved around the number of spectators allowed at tribunal hearings. The 25 Man Rule would allow a maximum of 25 spectators at any given hearing. For more information on the 25 Man Rule see Series I. Governance for minutes relating to the Rule. The folder of the "Temple Committee Reports" documents some of the work done by the Temple Committee, a Special Committee of the Trustees of Columbia University, established by the Trustees on May 1, 1968 in order to "study and recommend changes in the basic structure of the University." The Committee was named after its chairman Alan H. Temple.
Box 6 Folder 40
Alumni Response, 1968
Box 7 Folder 1
Booklet of Important Documentation, 1968-1972
Box 7 Folder 2
Charters and Statutes, 1970
Box 7 Folder 3
"Columbia University in Crisis" by A.G. Hart, 1968
Box 7 Folder 4
Cox Commission, Quentin Anderson Testimony, undated
Box 7 Folder 5
Deane and Connor Paper on Discipline, 1968
Box 7 Folder 6
Deane and Connor Paper, SRU Response to, undated
Box 7 Folder 7
Discipline at Other Universities, 1968
Box 7 Folder 8
Education Protest Legislation, 1969
Box 7 Folder 9
Graduate Student Union Paper on Discipline, 1968
Box 7 Folder 10
Independent Faculty Group Memorandum, 1968
Box 7 Folder 11
Report of the Columbia University Committee on Relations with Outside Agencies (Henkin Report),, 1968
Box 7 Folder 12
Rules of Conduct (never promulgated), 1969
Box 7 Folder 13
Status of University Discipline, Reports, 1968-1969
Box 7 Folder 14
Student Council, 1964
Box 7 Folder 15
Student Life Report, 1967
Box 7 Folder 16
Student Organizations, 1969
Box 7 Folder 17
Students for A Restructured University (SRU) Petition, 1968
Box 7 Folder 18
Temple Committee Reports, 1968-1969
Box 7 Folder 19
Tribunal Letters, Samples, 1972
Box 7 Folder 20
University Committee on Rules of Conduct, Liss Report, undated
Box 7 Folder 21
University Committee on Rules of Conduct, Minutes, 1968-1969
Box 7 Folder 22
University Senate Bulletins and Documents, 1969-1970
Box 7 Folder 23
University Senate, Proposal For, 1968-1969
Box 7 Folder 24
"Who Rules Columbia?", 1968
Subseries VIII.3. Chronological Files
Subseries 3. Chronological Files appear to have been created by the JCDA administrative assistant who compiled all of the important correspondence and documentation for a given time period and bound it together chronologically for reference use. Therefore, the material in the chronological files is mostly duplicate material found in other areas of the records.
Box 7 Folder 25
Chronological Files Copy 1, 1968-1970
Box 7 Folder 26
Chronological Files Copy 2, 1968-1970
Box 7 Folder 27
Chronological Files Copy 1, 1970 July -1971 July, 1970
Box 7 Folder 28
Chronological Files Copy 2, 1970 July -1971 July, 1970
Box 7 Folder 29
Chronological Files, 1971 July -1972 July, 1971
Box 7 Folder 30
Chronological Files, 1972 July -1973 May, 1972
Series IX. Additions
Series IX. Additions contains materials found during and after the processing of the University Protest and Activism Collection (UA#0007). These records include the Faculty of Political Science JCDA election materials and two sets of personal papers. The first set of personal papers belonged to English and Comparative Literature professor and the first chair of the JCDA, Professor Quentin Anderson. His records document the creation of the Interim Rules and University reform. The second set of papers belonged to Douglass Hunt, who served first as the Vice President for Finance and then as Deputy to the President for Governmental Affairs. Hunt acted as the prosecutor for the University at the tribunals for students accused of violating the Interim Rules during the demonstrations in the spring of 1972. The majority of the folders contain student case files, with handwritten notes, copies of correspondence and photographs used for identifying the students participating in the demonstrations.
JCDA Election, Faculty of Political Science
Quentin Anderson records
Box 10 Folder 3
Discussion draft of recommendations for Interim Rules, 1968
Box 10 Folder 4
Comments on "Discussion draft…", 1968 August -September, 1968
Box 10 Folder 5
Classroom disruptions and disciplinary proceedings, 1968 November -1969 June, 1968
Box 10 Folder 6
Department of English and Comparative Literature schedule of classes during crisis,, 1968
Box 10 Folder 7
Justice Frankel's decision, 1968 July, 1968
Box 10 Folder 8
Executive Committee of the Faculty, 1968 May -1969 March, 1968
Box 10 Folder 9
Faculty of Columbia College, 1963-1969
Box 10 Folder 10
Albert G. Hart, proposal for academic disciplinary penalty …, 1968 August, 1968
Box 10 Folder 11
Independent Faculty Group, 1968
Box 10 Folder 12
Interim Rules, 1968 August -September, 1968
Box 10 Folder 13
Interim Rules comments and changes, 1969
Box 10 Folder 14
Interim Rules administration changes, 1969
Box 10 Folder 15
Report of the Joint College Commission, 1968 October, 1968
JCDA
Box 10 Folder 16
Announcements and statements, 1968-1969
Box 10 Folder 17
Correspondence, 1968-1969
Box 10 Folder 18
Membership lists, 1968-1969
Box 10 Folder 19
Minutes, 1968-1969
Box 10 Folder 20
Resolution amendments, 1968
Box 10 Folder 21
Howard N. Meyer, affirmation to the Cox Commission, 1968
Box 10 Folder 22
Miscellaneous flyers and announcements, 1968-1969
Box 10 Folder 23
University's plea for leniency for student trespassers, 1968 October, 1968
Box 10 Folder 24
Position paper on discipline and justice at Columbia University, 1968 June, 1968
Box 10 Folder 25
W. Reimuth, comments on disciplinary rules and procedures …, 1969
Box 10 Folder 26
Resolution adopted by the Faculty, 1968 September, 1968
Box 10 Folder 27
The Sixty Bad Boys, 1968
Box 10 Folder 28
Status of University discipline reports, 1968-1969
Box 10 Folder 29
Students for a Restructured University (SRU), 1968
Box 10 Folder 30
Kevin Sullivan correspondence, 1968
(Associate Dean, Graduate Faculties)
Box 10 Folder 31
University Committee on Rules of Conduct, 1969 April, 1969
University reform
Box 10 Folder 32
Faculty organization, 1968 September, 1968
Box 10 Folder 33
Draft memoranda on discipline, 1968 July, 1968
Box 10 Folder 34
The future role of students and additions, 1968
Box 10 Folder 35
University restructuring, 1968
Box 10 Folder 36
Vietnam war protests, 1970
Douglass Hunt papers
Box 8 Folder 1
Columbia College Tribunal Notes, 1972-1973
Box 8 Folder 2
General Studies Tribunal, 1972-1973
Box 8 Folder 3
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Tribunal, 1972-1973
Box 8 Folder 4-54
Student files
Box 8 Folder 55-56
University Senate Disruptions, Witness Statements, 1972-1973
Box 9 Folder 1
Witnessed but not Prosecuted, 1972
Box 9 Folder 2-3
Status Reports, Disciplinary Tribunal, 1972-1973
Box 9 Folder 4-8
Internal Memoranda and Correspondence, Campus Protests, 1972-1973
Box 9 Folder 9
Rules and Manual, 1972
Box 9 Folder 10-22
Student appeal files