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Series Description and Scope

This series documents the founding of Roxbury Community College, from negotiations beginning in 1968, to the opening of its doors to students in 1973, as well as its first decade and a half as an institution of higher learning. The series traces the early history of the College and highlights the academic, administrative, and physical changes it underwent in this fifteen-year period. The series consists of academic department records, dated 1977 through 1983, administrative records, dated 1975 through 1980, by-laws, facilities and buildings records, dated 1975 through 1987, original documents, reports, dated 1975, 1984, and student records, dated 1976-1977, and also includes newspaper clippings, dated 1984-2003. A highlight from the series also includes site and facilities documents and reports, dated 1973 through 1980, regarding the College's efforts to establish a permanent campus

Series Contents

Box # Subseries/Description Dates
1 Academic Departments: Business Department (4 folders) 1973-1983
1 Academic Departments: Department Head Meetings 1977 - 1980
1 Academic Departments: Social Sciences Curriculum 1977 - 1980
1 Administration & Finance (4 folders, 1 restricted) 1975-1980
1 Advisory Board Original Documents relating the Advisory Board of RCC (8 folders) 1969-1976
35
By-Laws Committee Third Reading of RCC By-Laws Committee, Recommendations
1974
1
Facilities and Public Safety (Buildings & Sites): Furniture and Equipment Specifications
1987
1
Facilities and Public Safety (Buildings & Sites): Memos: Southwest Corridor Site
1975-1976
1
Facilities and Public Safety (Buildings & Sites): Move to Boston State College Campus
1981 - 1982
1 Facilities and Public Safety (Buildings & Sites): Reports: Site and Facilities Documents 1973-1980
35 Facilities and Public Safety (Buildings & Sites): Reports: Permanent Site Location for Roxbury Community College (Restricted) 1978
1, 35 Facilities and Buildings: Southwest Corridor (4 folders) 1976 - 1985
1
Founding of RCC: Original Documents (7 folders )
1968-1976
1 Faculty and Staff: Faculty Affairs Committee 1973 - 1975
1 Faculty and Staff: Faculty Assemblies 1978 - 1980
1
Faculty and Staff: Faculty Directories
1976 - 1982
1 Faculty and Staff: New Faculty Seminar 1979
1
Faculty and Staff: Newsletters
1977 - 1978
1 Marketing Study: An Analysis of Opportunities for Increasing Enrollment at RCC: A Marketing Case Analysis by Robert Krim 1983 1983
1 Merger with Bunker Hill Community College : Original Documents relating to the proposed merger between RCC and Bunker Hill (3 folders)
1980-1981
1 Newspaper Clippings n.d., 1984-2003
1 Presidential Search Committee : Original Documents relating to the activities of various search committees (3 folders)
1974 - 1982
2
Reports: A People’s School: Conflicts in Planning the Development of RCC An Analytical Paper presented to faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education (2 folders)
1984
2 Report: RCC 1975
2 Students: SGA Constitution and list of officers 1977
2 Students: Student Affairs Committee 1976 - 1977
2 Student: Surveys 1976 - 1983

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