University Protest and Activism Collection, 1958-2018, bulk 1968-1972

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Series IV: Commissions and Committees, 1950-1970, bulk 1966-1969

This series documents the efforts of University-appointed commissions and committees to examine campus unrest, particularly the 1968 strike, and to address the issues that prompted the upheaval. It also includes material relating to conferences at which issues like student protest, the Vietnam War, and civil rights were discussed. Reports, hearing proceedings, news releases, and flyers represent the types of items found in this series. The bulk of the series relates to the work of the "Fact Finding Commission Appointed to Investigate the Disturbances at Columbia University in April and May 1968," published and popularly known as the Cox Commission report. Available here, in addition to the commission's final report that presents a narrative and analysis of the strike, are the proceedings of the hearings at which witnesses were examined. Reports issued by bodies addressing discipline, university governance, ROTC, and relations with external research funding agencies are also contained in this series, as is documentation on the University Senate, which was created in the aftermath of the strike.



Box 4 Folder 22 Organization Descriptions and Membership Lists, 1968


Box 4 Folder 23 Arden House Seminar Retreat in Harriman, New York, 1968



Box 26 Folder 5 Commission on Academic Integrity, 1966



Box 4 Folder 24 Committee on External Relations--Includes the Report of the Columbia University Committee on Relations with Outside Agencies,, 1967-1968


Box 4 Folder 25 Committee on Externally Funded Research and Instruction, 1966-1969



Box 26 Folder 2 to 4 Committee on Recruitment, 1950, 1967, Undated, 1950, 1967, Undated, (3 Folders)



Box 4 Folder 26 Student Organizations, Committee on--Flyer for Open Meeting, 1968


Box 4 Folder 27 Tri-partite Commission, Committee on, 1968


Box 4 Folder 28 The National Priorities Problem--Conference, 1966


Cox Commission, Fact Finding Commission


Box 4 Folder 29 Crisis at Columbia: Report of the Fact Finding Commission Appointed to Investigate the Disturbances at Columbia University in April and May 1968, 1968, May 1968, 1968


Cox Commission


Proceedings



Box 5 Folder 1 Witness and Subject Indices, 1968


Box 5 Folder 2 Volume 1, 1968 May 7


Box 5 Folder 3 Volume 2, 1968 May 13


Box 5 Folder 4 Volume 3, 1968 May 14


Box 5 Folder 5 Volume 4, 1968 May 15


Box 5 Folder 6 Volume 5, 1968 May 20


Box 5 Folder 7 Volume 6, 1968 May 21


Box 5 Folder 8 Volume 7, 1968 May 22



Box 6 Folder 1 Volume 8, 1968 May 27


Box 6 Folder 2 Volume 9, 1968 May 28


Box 6 Folder 3 Volume 10, 1968 May 29


Box 6 Folder 4 Volume 11, 1968 June 3


Box 6 Folder 5 Volume 12, 1968 June 5



Box 26 Folder 6 Faculty Committee on the Draft, Grades, Conscription and Education, 1966-1968, Undated, 1966-1968, Undated



Box 7 Folder 1 Joint Committee on Disciplinary Affairs, 1967-1969


Box 7 Folder 2 Joint Forum on Problems of the University and Proposals for Change,, 1968


Box 7 Folder 3 Joint Hearings on University Restructuring, 1968


Box 7 Folder 4 Student Faculty Meeting, 1968


Box 7 Folder 5 United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 1969


Box 7 Folder 6 University Committee on Rules of Conduct, 1969


Box 7 Folder 7 University Council, 1969


Box 7 Folder 8 University Elections Commission, 1969


Box 7 Folder 9 University Senate, 1969-1970