Correspondence, 1968-1975

Correspondence sent to all or part of Board of Trustees. Includes 1968 correspondence regarding: racial disturbances and National States Rights Party rally in Berea; updates on school activities including protest of students (majority black students) regarding compulsory assemblies and College not adequately meeting its obligations to Appalachia and interracial education. Includes 1969 correspondence regarding: honorary degrees to black scholar or public servant; appointment of Dr. William M. Jones as Academic Vice-President and Dean of the College; foundations and tax reform measures; death of Trustee Allen Evarts Foster; entering class profile (including increases in numbers of foreign and black students); rights and responsibilities of Berea students, student disorders. Includes 1970 and 1971 correspondence regarding: community judicial code/new judicial procedure (student and faculty differences); Great Commitments; short-term registration figures and titles of projects; proportion of black students in the school body; proposal of (College President's) unconditional veto on actions of the General Faculty; dormitory visiting privileges (opinions toward, governance issues); acceptance rates/quotas for blacks/African Americans (Admissions Proposal passed by College Faculty); budgets; need for forest road repair; request for additional funds to purchase reservoir land; racial tensions/Melvin Marshall/protest in administration building/closing of campus (December). Includes correspondence from 1972 relating to: study of religious life on campus (consultant's report by Harold H. Viehman); bids on remodeling of Talcott Residence Hall and Edwards Building; scholarship grants from Kentucky state funds; Wilderness Road; Lilly Endowment and pledge for Campus Christian Center; Great Commitments campaign; homecoming events. Includes correspondence from 1973, 1974 and 1975 relating to: summer school; Wilderness Road; registration numbers; donations and fundraising; Basic Educational Opportunity Grant for low-income students; organizational changes and appointment of Dean William R. Ramsay to the position of Dean of Labor and Student Life; funding goals/deficit; student enrollment.