NCC: Student Publications Board files

Collection

Identifier: NCCA-C126

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains minutes of meetings of the Student Publications Board from December 1948 to May 1966. The files additionally include agendas, budgets outlining costs of the individual publications, and the Student Publications Board Constitution and its subsequent revisions. However, the majority of this collection is correspondence, specifically, carbon copies of applications for editorial positions with the publications.

Dates

1948 - 1966

Conditions Governing Access

Folder 11 contains documents with academic information, such as individual student grade point averages or course grades, and is unavailable for research. These documents have been photocopied and redacted, and the photocopies are placed in their appropriate chronological places.

Biographical / Historical

Organized in 1939, the Student Publications Board consisted of the editors and business managers of all campus publications (Chronicle, Spectrum, and The Cardinal) and two or three faculty advisors. The purpose of the board was to solve publication problems as well as ensure that publications stayed within the scholastic and ethical codes of the college.

Extent

.42 Linear Feet (1 manuscript, letter-sized box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Chronological

Processing Information

The base collection of the College Archives had no inherent order. The Archives created this series out of the basic collection in 1999.

Record Groups

- 13. Student Life

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: NCC: Student Publication Board files, 1948-1966
Status: Completed
Author: Kimberly Jacobsen Butler, Archivist; Megan Bufton, Archives Student Assistant; Kimberly James, Archives Student Assistant
Date: 04-2005
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin