QC3. Institutional Collections

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The Aaron Copland School of Music Collection (formerly the Department of Music) consists of materials about the administrative, faculty and student activities of the Aaron Copland School of Music. The collection contains a wide-range of materials including correspondence, brochures, photographs, audio tapes, press clippings, and department course and event schedules. The bulk of the collection consists of personnel files of prominent department faculty.

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The Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding (CERRU) is a diversity education center housed at Queens College that provides nonviolent communication tools to bridge social differences and create a more equitable society. This collection documents its history through publications, organizational files, and ephemera produced by the organization.

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This collection contains the professional and personal papers of Charles S. Colden, founder of Queens College. This collection includes correspondence, legal records, print materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, awards/honors, and various papers. Also included are minutes, speeches, invitations, and various papers pertaining specifically to Queens College and the Queens College Association.

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Small collection of materials about Andrew Goodman collated by college administrators and librarians, including correspondence with the Goodman family; articles; publicity materials for events; exhibit text and reproductions; and commemorative poems and speeches.

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The City University of New York was among the largest university systems to support a universal open admissions policy. The Open Admissions Collection contains reports, articles, transcripts, and guidebooks from the first decade of this effort.

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The Gender, Love, and Sexuality Alliance (GLASA) is a student association at Queens College. GLASA functions as a space for LGBTQ+ students to interact in community with one another. The collection primarily consists of the club's journals, as well as supplemental materials related to GLASA events.

Content Description One album with more than 100 black and white photographs of the Parental School, the predecessor institution to Queens College, which operated from 1909-1934. The album contains photos of the dormitory, bakery, grounds, printshop, tailor, and various educational and social activities. Some items document family photographs and trips outside of the school. The album was owned by Jannis Izaak Risseeuw, who served as music master and conductor of the Parental School Band. As depicted in the...

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This collection documents performing arts related events and programs associated with Queens College from 1938 to 2004. This includes activities from the early days of the college, such as the Orchestral Society and Choral Society; the Colden Center (founded in 1960); and today's the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. The collection contains photographs, invitations, memos, brochures, programs, and other printed ephemera.

Abstract The Lucille Kyvallos Athletics Records and Papers document Kyvallos’s career as the coach of the Queens College Women’s Basketball team from 1968-1981 and as a trailblazer in women’s college basketball. The collection contains materials related to Kyvallos’s coaching and teaching; promotional and publicity materials about Queens College’s team and women’s basketball tournaments, camps, clinics, and championships; honors and awards; administrative and planning documents; photographs; and some...

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The Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Change was created to continue the goals and ideals of Michael Harrington, a professor at Queens College who campaigned for social change and reform. The bulk of the Michael Harrington Center records consist of papers, news letters and journals published by the center.