Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains materials pertaining the 1968-1969 San Francisco State College student strike and the simultaneous and supportive faculty strike. The materials were collected by librarian Helene Whitson during and after the strike events.The collection contains a large number of student-generated documents that chronicle the strike and its underlying motivations. Topics include the value of "relevant education," questioning the status-quo, student organizing, the...

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Warning letter from consultant Howard Rhoads to academic chapter presidents on votes jeopardizing the Senate. Other materials include CSEA faculty opinion poll on progress report of the Joint (Legislative) Committee on Hgher Education, and "The Scope" newsletter published by the California State Employees Association.

Contents Draft of proposed law legalizing faculty's right to negotiate with the Trustees, and information on negotiations between the Trustees and AFT for the reinstatement of strikers. Other topics include contention between non-striking professors and San Francisco Labor Council about prolonging student boycott of SFSC, and CCUFA's statement on the lack of legitimacy of faculty strike and accusing AFT of exploiting the aspirations of minority group students. Other materials include a Sanctions...

Contents Minutes of deliberations, motions and recommendations adopted during Academic Senate meetings. Topics include faculty resolution in opposition to President Nixon's actions in Cambodia and John Twitchell (President-elect of the Associated Students) resolution in support of student dissent. Other topics are a proposed motion censuring President Hayakawa for his attempt to hinder academic freedom and a statement from concerned faculty in regard to the strike, the war in Southeast Asia, College...

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Description of the Campus Communications Center, statement in support of BSU and TWLF by students and faculty of a newly created inter-departmental committee, and the Campus Communications Center newsletters.

Contents Alvin Marks' memo to Dean of Students to assist colleges in developing skills and procedures for handling campus disruptions, basis for campus administrators to take disciplinary action, and memorandum from Chancellor Dumke on disciplinary proceedings and Concurrent Jurisdiction. Other materials include Carl Davidson's working paper for the National Convention of Students for a Democratic Society, a list of practical lessons drawn from strike events, and the Board of Trustees' policy on...

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Campus Ministry statement on the needs of black students and minorities, the role of college in society, the responsibility of SFSC for its own affairs, and the Campus Ministry's role in seeking peace, reconciliation and justice in San Francisco.

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Two letters to Dr. Ray Kelch, Chairman of the History Department, supporting professors Richard Fitzgerald and Juan Martinez, who were respectively fired and not rehired.

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Handwritten and typed proposals for the establishments of the Center for Educational Innovation dated July 7, 1997 at San Francisco State College.

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Proposal for a Community Services Institute within the Center for Educational Innovation at San Francisco State College.