A01. Governance and Administration

Scope and Content Correspondence and records concerning College affairs during William Allen's administration including Allen's inauguration, College laws, student petitions and degrees, professorships, the Allen vs. McKeen court case (1832-1833), Maine Hall fire (1822), Phi Beta Kappa, and the conferral of an honorary degree on Marquis de Lafayette in 1824. Additional primary source material concerning the early administration of the College is found in the records of the ...

Scope and Content The papers contain general correspondence concerning College affairs and three series of material on specific issues. One series consists of a group of depositions taken from all the students at the College in 1846 just after the wood yard burned on the night of October 29. One student was eventually dismissed for his alleged involvement in the incident.Another series concerns the Declaration of Denominational Status, also of 1846. This issue revolved around the status of the...

Scope and Content This collection contains general correspondence concerning College affairs. Included are letters from the spring of 1867 between Nehemiah Cleaveland, Samuel Backus, and William Smyth concerning Memorial Hall. Most primary source material regarding the early administration of the College is found in the records of the Board of Trustees or in the ...

Scope and Content Files of President Kenneth C.M. Sills include general office correspondence and specific correspondence relating to the closing of the Medical School of Maine, the conferring of honorary degrees, athletics, fraternities, the Institute of Modern Literature, the establishment of the Kent Island Station, the Tallman Foundation and the Committee on the Limitation of Numbers. The files also include correspondence with a number of prominent alumni including Percival Baxter '98, William W. Lawrence...

Scope and Content The collection contains correspondence, subject files, reports, and speeches. In addition to general administrative records, there are records concerning the Senior Center, the Capital Campaign, the Bowdoin Plan, R.O.T.C., and the College's self-study. Also included are files concerning WCBB, the Maine educational television network, A.C.H.E.S., the Advisory Commission for Higher Education Study, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Science. For related James Stacy...

Scope and Content This collection contains administrative papers of Roger Howell. Includes general office files on a number of important subjects, including correspondence regarding the Afro-American Studies Program (now Africana Studies), CBB educational television, co-education, the 175th anniversary capital campaign, the 1970 student strike and the Senior Center. The records also include president's reports and faculty committee material. As material in folders often overlaps presidential administrations,...

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This collection contains general office files of Willard Enteman. As material in folders often overlaps presidential administrations, the researcher may wish to consult the records of former and subsequent presidents for relevant information on a particular subject.

Scope and Content This collection contains general office files of A. LeRoy Greason. Contains files on a number of subjects, including the Campaign for Bowdoin, fraternities, WCBB Channel 10 and the President's Commission on the Status of Women. As material in folders may overlap presidential administrations, the researcher may wish to consult the records of former and subsequent presidents for relevant information on a particular subject. For additional A. LeRoy Greason materials, see the A. LeRoy Greason...

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This collection contains inactive office files of President Mills. The majority of the records date from Mills' tenure as president of the college, but some were retained by the office from previous administrations. The subject files series contains the most composite portrait of the daily ongoings of the college.

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The records contain subject files from the office of the Assistant to the President for Multicultural Programs and Affirmative Action Officer dating from 1988. They contain information on programs, lecture series, budgets, and issues relating to multicultural and minority affairs at Bowdoin. Also included are articles on multicultural affairs and committee reports from the Oversight Committee on Multicultural Affairs.