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Student Activities Office records

 Record Group
Identifier: A04.50

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Scope and Content

The Student Activities Office records include brochures, lists, budgets, handbooks, and other material regarding student organizations and activities as well as flyers, programs for performances sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, and posters (some signed by performers) that were once hung in Smith Union. The records contain the meeting minutes of the Student Union Committee along with their subject and event files and handbooks from student organizations on campus. Budgets as well as Student Activities Fees Committee records are also a part of the Office records and include financial materials and meeting minutes from the 1970s to 2000s.

Dates

  • Creation: 1964 - 2022

Creator

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Biographical/Historical Note

The Student Activities Office has been an integral part of student life for many decades at Bowdoin. Its primary goals are to provide students with social, cultural, and educational experiences outside the classroom; facilitate leadership development within organizations; and to provide recourses for student events. An activities fair is also coordinated every year during the fall semester to introduce each incoming class to the opportunities at the College.

The Office of Student Activities oversees programs designed to enhance students’ college experience through social, cultural, spiritual, educations, athletic, student government and recreational cocurricular experiences. Student Activities is committed to helping students connect with one another and to facilitating involvement in a wide variety of activities. The Student Activities team provides support for more than 120 student organizations and advise students in producing hundreds of programs a year.

Extent

6 Linear Feet (6 boxes)

5 oversized folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Office records for Student Activities, including the Student Activities Fee Committee, Student Organizations, and Student Union Committee.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Student Activities Office Records and Publications
Status
Completed
Author
Emma Barton-Norris
Date
2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository

http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/index.shtml
Contact:
3000 College Station
Brunswick Maine 04011 USA
(207) 725-3288

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