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Series 1: July 2015 Transfer comprises the largest series within the collection and contains the most in-depth documentation of the office's activities and decisions from the years 2003 until 2015. The series contains records acquired from a shared office server and emails from the office's second leader, Vice President Cynthia Cherrey. See the description notes for each subseries for more information.
This series is arranged according to the provenance of the two groups of records: an email account and a shared office server.
Athletics, 2010-2015
Athletics/Greek, 2011-2013
Blairstown, 2010-2013
Career Services, 2010-2015
Development, 2010-2015
EVP, 2011-2015
INBOX, 2009-2013
March Madness, 2012-2013
Pace, 2010-2015
Pace/Policies, 2011-2014
Presidents office, 2013-2015
Provost office, 2010-2015
Publications, 2010-2013
ROTC, 2010-2014
Sexual misconduct, 2011-2015
Shirley M. Tilghman, 2011
Students, 2010-2015
Talks, 2012-2013
Trustees, 2010-2015
Subseries 1B: Shared Office Server Files, 2003 December 19-2015 July 22
Alcohol Coalition Workshops, 2008 February 07 - 2012 June 18
Amy Campbell_Archive, 2004 November 10 - 2012 March 28
Athletics, 2003 December 19 - 2015 June 01
Budget, 2008 September 18 - 2015 June 25
Campus Club - Eating Club Info, 2005 December 20 - 2015 January 29
Campus Plan, 2015 March 26 - 2015 March 26
Career Services, 2010 August 11 - 2014 October 22
Case Management, 2012 August 29 - 2012 August 29
Continuity of Care Plans, 2014 April 04 - 2014 April 04
COOPs, 2015 January 06 - 2015 January 06
Core Group, 2004 August 19 - 2015 July 14
Data Collection (by month), 2012 April 17 - 2012 August 06
Drug Free School Report, 2012 July 16 - 2014 December 02
Executive Vice President, 2005 September 20 - 2012 May 24
Fact Sheets, 2013 July 03 - 2015 April 02
Fall Early Arrival, 2012 April 26 - 2014 May 05
Freshman Orientation, 2014 February 25 - 2015 July 22
Internships, 2015 July 14 - 2015 July 14
Ivy League Council Meetings, 2006 May 23 - 2006 May 23
Janet Smith Dickerson - Archive, 2004 August 03 - 2015 July 01
Leadership, 2014 January 24 - 2015 March 04
Letters to the Incoming Class, 2005 August 09 - 2015 July 21
Meningitis, 2013 May 24 - 2013 August 28
Metrics, 2012 September 26 - 2015 June 25
ODUS (Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students), 2013 October 14 - 2015 July 09
Organization Charts, 2006 January 06 - 2015 July 13
Pace Center, 2005 May 04 - 2014 September 30
PRICOM (Priorities Committee), 2005 February 11 - 2015 July 20
Princeton Perspective Project, 2014 May 21 - 2014 May 21
Princeton-Blairstown Center (PBC), 2008 October 17 - 2011 June 09
Religious Life, 2015 July 21 - 2015 July 21
ROTC (Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps), 2008 September 16 - 2014 September 12
Rugby, 2009 June 18 - 2015 January 05
Save for New VP, 2010 August 11 - 2015 July 20
Smoking Policy Review, 2014 October 06 - 2015 January 07
Student Leader Lunches, 2008 November 13 - 2009 January 23
Student Related Issues, 2005 October 18 - 2008 January 21
Student Status, 2013 December 04 - 2015 January 23
Summer Journalism Program, 2006 April 17 - 2007 March 23
Survey Reports, 2006 November 15 - 2008 May 07
Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, 2005 May 03 - 2013 July 02
Trustees, 2004 September 02 - 2015 July 22
UHS (University Health Services), 2005 December 29 - 2015 January 28
Various Campus Life issues, 2006 September 25 - 2012 April 20
This series consists primarily of reports, meeting minutes, campus surveys, and other records that document the decades of research and planning before the Office was created. Topics covered in depth include student life, residential life, and athletics. Many of the folders in the "Campus Life Files" potentially duplicate records found in Subseries 1A.
No arrangement has been placed on the series; it retains its original order.
Alcohol EDU, 2002-2010
Anthrax, 2001
Bedford Field, 2013
Cannon Club, 2004
Concussions, 2012-2013
Community House, 1999
Diversity, 1991-2005
Fred Fox Fund, 2006
Greek Life, 1983-2012
Meningitis, 2013-2014
Newman's Day, 2004
OCHS Report FY05, 2006
PU Band Fund, 1999
ROTC (Navy), 1983-2014
Rugby 2009, 2009
Stoke's Fund, 1999-2000
Smoking Resolution, 2004
Tiger Inn, 2006
Series 3: Public Websites, 2015-2017
The Campus Life website contains information for students (current and prospective) about the University's offerings in extracurricular activities, including athletics, student organizations, and career services. Also found on this website are listings of committees, events, and announcements. Full text searching of this archived web site is available through the <a href="https://www.archive-it.org/collections/5151/?show=ArchivedPages">Archive-It</a> interface.
The original arrangement of the files was maintained.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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:
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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-8
- 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
