affirmative action
Subject
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Scope Note: Positive actions taken to ensure that the policies of non-discrimination are followed in employment, recruitment, and treatment, especially of persons who belong to traditionally under-represented groups, such as minorities and women
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Committee on Race and Diversity records
Collection
Identifier: AC-0599
Abstract
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Committee on Race and Diversity records document the activities of the Committee on Race and Diversity, as well as its predecessor, the Committee on Campus Race Relations before it merged with the Martin Luther King Committee in October 2007. The records date from 1986 to 2009 and include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, membership lists, newspaper articles, grant proposals, and information on events sponsored by the Committee. The...
Dates:
1986 - 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0394
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Most of the records were created while Robert Lyle Bishop (1958-1964) and Edgar Cary Brown (1964-1982) were heads of the department. The collection contains correspondence, plans, reports, and studies on affirmative action; and information about department committees, changes in the graduate and undergraduate curricula, and visiting committees. Included is a department history with lists of all faculty and student evaluations of courses. Also included is Brown's correspondence with the...
Dates:
1947
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering records
Collection
Identifier: AC-0259
Scope and Contents
Series 1 consists of printed copies of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Annual Reports and Biennial Reports for the years 1977-1995. Series 2 documents the administrative history of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1942 to 1992 with emphasis on 1960-1985. A significant amount of information can be found concerning the department's facilities at MIT; funding requests; attempts to comply with federal and MIT policy regarding affirmative action hiring and enrollment;...
Dates:
1942 - 1992; 2021 March 19 - Ongoing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the Dean for Student Affairs records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0019
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Records (1961-1969) received in 1979, boxes 1-4: Records arranged alphabetically by subject consist of correspondence, memoranda and other papers documenting student activities and the activities of all MIT offices, committees and other bodies which affected undergraduates at the Institute.Records (1975-1988) received in 1988, boxes 5-11: Records consist of correspondence and reports about the organization of the office and student activities issues including affirmative action,...
Dates:
1945 - 1995
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President and Chancellor, records of Barbara Scott Nelson, assistant to the president and chancellor
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0387
Abstract
Barbara Scott Nelson was assistant to Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Jerome B. Wiesner and Chancellor Paul E. Gray between 1972 and 1978. Wiesner and Gray served as president and chancellor from 1971 to 1980. The collection contains notes, reports, printed material, and other files on administrative issues including affirmative action; the Institute's involvement in outside professional associations such as the American Association of University Administrators and the...
Dates:
1972 - 1979
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, records of Special Assistant to the President and Ombudsperson Mary Rowe
Collection
Identifier: AC-0232
Abstract
This collection documents the administrative work of Mary Rowe who held the position of Special Assistant to the President and Ombudsperson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials, dating from 1960 through 2014, include proposals and history, committee files, correspondence and subject files, teaching materials, speeches and writings relating to her work.
Dates:
1960s–2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, records of the special assistant to the president and assistant equal opportunity officer
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0410
Dates:
1973 - 1993
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