Vassar College Events and Issues

The collection contains records of Vassar College’s transition to a coeducational institution accumulated and created by History Department professor, one-time Dean of Freshmen, and co-chair of the Committee on a Coeducation for Tomorrow, Clyde Griffen. Materials include research on other American colleges and universities; correspondence with coeducational institutions; data gathered at Vassar regarding admissions, transfers, costs, and athletics; committee reports and correspondence; and clippings and other publications.

Materials relating to a dispute between student Nancy Jane Fellers and Vassar College over a grade given by distinguished English Professor Helen Druscilla Lockwood.

Materials related to the early years
of the Vassar College Black Studies Program and the student sit-in staged in 1969
for improvements to the program along with other demands relating to the
African-American community both on campus and off.

Correspondence, reports, film, and audiotape relating to the 1971 Vassar College Sit-In, which was inspired by tenure decisions and academic governance issues at the College

Correspondence, flyers, news clippings and press releases from the 1990 takeover, along with tapes and supporting documents from an oral history project undertaken the following year under the auspices of Elizabeth Daniels' "Testimony of the Past" class, which worked on documenting Vassar history.

Material concerning fund raising, programs, and other aspects of the celebration of Vassar College's 75th Anniversary.

The collection consists of programs,
invitations, song lyrics, sheet music, and other materials related to Vassar
College's Spring ceremonies of commencement and the awarding of baccalaureate
degrees.

Correspondence, clippings, minutes, programs, audio tapes, and other items relating to the organization of and events held during the 100th anniversary of Vassar College.

Programs, invitations, songs, sheet music, play scripts, committee records, and other materials related to Vassar College's Founder's Day tradition.

Scrapbooks containing programs relating to
Vassar College events.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings
and programs relating to Vassar College events and issues.

An artificial collection of clippings, leaflets, and correspondence related to campus protests at Vassar College during the height of the Vietnam War.

Records from the investigation into a proposed affiliation between Vassar College and Yale University, including relocation of Vassar to New Haven, Connecticut.