- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Office of the Vice President for Campus Life.
- Title:
- Office of the Vice President for Campus Life Records
- Repository:
- Princeton University Archives
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/br86b6216
- Dates:
- 1868-2015 (mostly 2006-2017)
- Size:
- 8 boxes, 72 items, 7264 digital files, and 1 websites
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-8
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Office of the Vice President for Campus Life is an administrative office at Princeton University responsible for enriching the student experience for the University's undergraduate and graduate students. The Office of the Vice President for Campus Life Records contain internal emails, reports, minutes, spreadsheets, and other office files that document the activities of the office from its inception in the early 21st century and through its first decade and a half of existence.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
8.049 email messages
The Office of the Vice President for Campus Life Records contain internal emails, reports, minutes, spreadsheets, and other office files that document the activities of the office from its inception in the early 21st century and through its first decade and a half of existence. Topics that are particularly well documented in the collection include student health, campus protests, athletics, drug and alcohol usage, residential life, sexual misconduct, religious life, and fundraising for new initiatives or centers, such as the LGBT Center.
The majority of the collection was created and used in various computing environments, including an office-wide networked folder and an email account owned and used by the office's second Vice President, Cynthia Cherrey. The types of files represented include textual/word processing documents in the form of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and agendas.
See the description notes for each series and subseries for further description.
- Arrangement
The collection is organized according to the date on which it was transferred to the custody of the University Archives.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Princeton University. Office of the Vice President for Campus Life.
The Office of the Vice President for Campus Life is an administrative office at Princeton University responsible for enriching the student experience for the University's undergraduate and graduate students. The Office, which initially reported to the Office of the Vice President and Secretary, currently reports to the Executive Vice President of the University and maintains administrative oversight of the following units:
The Office of the Vice President for Campus Life Office was created in 2000 following the departure of former Dean of Student Life, Janina Montero, who vacated the position in 1999 for a vice president opening at Brown University. Rather than hire a new Dean of Student Life, the University in April of 2000 expanded the scope of the role and hired Janet Smith Dickerson, then Duke University's vice president for student affairs, as the university's first-ever Vice President for Campus Life to begin on July 1, 2000, a posting Vice President Dickerson held for ten years. Significant initiatives that Vice President Dickerson led include the shift from the two-year to four-year residential college system and the establishment of the Campus Club, as well as her efforts to co-chair the Diversity Working Group and the Task Force on Health and Well-Being.
Vice President Dickerson's tenure was followed by Vice President Cynthia Cherrey, who held the position from 2010 until 2015, a tenure in which several changes to the University's fraternity/sorority (Greek) life took place as well as a growing number of student protests following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an event that impacted Princeton students and led to the formation of new student organizations leading a new generation of student activism. Cherrey's administration concluded in 2015, and was succeeded by Vice President W. Rochelle Calhoun, whose administration immediately was thrust into the continuing protests into the 2015-2016 academic year, including a student sit-in of Nassau Hall in November of that year.
Vice Presidents for Campus Life:
Collection History
- Acquisition:
The collection was transferred to the University Archives in July of 2015 (AR.2015.065) and September of 2015 (AR.2015.073).
- Appraisal
Appraisal has been conducted in accordance with Mudd Library guidelines. The records in Series 1 were appraised using the output of the software application Digital Record Object Identification (DROID), resulting in roughly 2/3 of the records being selected with archival value.
During accessioning, the following four folders were deleted from the folder "Janet Smith Dickerson - Archive" in Subseries 1B. "/Recommendations" was deleted due to the presence of FERPA-protected information pertaining to student performance. "/JSD - including Bios and Recommendations/JSD, address lists and personal" was deleted to the presence of personal information pertaining to Dickerson's private life outside of her role at the University. "/Correspondence (stewardship ltrs)/Recommendation Ltrs" was deleted due to the presence of FERPA-protected information pertaining to student performance. "/Correspondence (stewardship ltrs)/External" was deleted due to the presence of FERPA-protected information pertaining to student performance.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Jarrett M. Drake in 2016. Finding aid written by Jarrett M. Drake in 2016.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Series 1: July 2015 Transfer is restricted for 30 years from the date of record. Series 2 and Series 3 are open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. For instances beyond Fair Use, if copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers do not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with use of materials from the Princeton University Archives.
For instances beyond Fair Use where the copyright is not held by the University, while permission from the Library is not required, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
This collection contains records created and used on computing devices. Researchers are responsible for meeting the technical requirements needed to access these materials, including any and all hardware and software.
- Credit this material:
Office of the Vice President for Campus Life Records; Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/br86b6216
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-8
Find More
- Other Finding Aids
Full text searching of the this collection's archived website(s) is available through the Archive-It interface.
- Subject Terms:
- Universities and Colleges -- Administration -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
- Genre Terms:
- Born digital.
Web sites. - Names:
- Princeton University
