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GODDARD-CAMBRIDGE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SOCIAL CHANGE RECORDS circa 1970-1979
Accession Number: 087-13; 093-03 Repository: University of Massachusetts Boston. University Archives and Special Collections Creator: Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change Title: Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change records Date [inclusive]: circa 1970-1979 Extent: 4.5 linear feet (nine document cases) Language: English Citation: Courtesy of the University Archives and Special Collections Department, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston: Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change records Processing Information: Processed by Kim Brooks in 1990. Finding aid reviewed by Catherine Shaw in January 2013 and updated by Meghan Bailey and Abigail Austin in April 2020. Conditions on Use and Access: This collection is open for research. Researchers may not include Goddard-Cambridge student names in their notes, nor may they have access to the collection if their intent is to seek information about a particular student. Records may not be photographed. Archives staff reserve the right to inspect researchers’ notes. Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE The records of the Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change were donated to University Archives and Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston by Elizabeth Bouvier, a former student and faculty member of the Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change, on November 22, 1987. Bouvier donated a second accession of a few folders on April 30, 1993.
PROCESSING NOTE Although most of the original folder headings were maintained, the arrangement of this collection was created by the processor since the files exhibited little or no original arrangement when they arrived at the Archives. Most newsprint was photocopied onto acid- free paper. Folders were replaced, paperclips and duplicates were removed, and one scrapbook was deaccessioned.
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HISTORICAL NOTE The Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School for Social Change began in the fall of 1970 as a collaboration between Goddard College and the Cambridge Institute (later the Cambridge Policy Studies Institute). The Cambridge Institute withdrew its sponsorship mid-way through the first year. The 1974-1975 school year opened with a new name: the Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change. Whether Cambridge-Goddard or Goddard-Cambridge, the graduate school/program will be referred to in this finding aid as “G-C.” G-C’s relationship to Goddard College, an experimental college founded in 1938 in Plainfield, Vermont, changed, sometimes each year. Technically, G-C was one of Goddard College’s external degree programs. G-C’s purpose was to “provide training and certification for those interested in combining the theory and practice of social change; for those whose educational goals cannot be pursued in the established universities and conventional graduate programs; and for those presently engaged in social action who desire to deepen their own intellectual resources.” The M.A. was intended to take one year and required one year-long project, rather than several semester- long courses. G-C also offered a series of short courses to help people work toward teacher certification. The school year ran from September to August. The student body stood at sixty-six in 1971-1972 and at 100 between 1972 and 1974. During the same period, there were approximately thirty faculty members and twenty projects each year.
Projects, also called “seminars,” “ovulars,” or simply “courses,” focused on one issue or topic, such as: “Struggles in Housing,” “Organizing Women Office Workers,” “Corporate Power Analysis and Application,” “Social and Community Psychology,” and “Feminist Film Project.” Most students applied directly to and were admitted by a project, which was organized and facilitated by one or two faculty members and consisted of five or more students. Applications from students without a B.A. were also reviewed by the non-B.A. committee. Projects often consisted of intensive readings and discussions, a collective or individual research project often including work with community organizations, and a written final report or thesis. Some students chose to complete a self-initiated study program rather than a project.
Projects were divided topically into large categories. The categories changed over the course of G-C’s history but included Imperial U.S.—At Home and Abroad, U.S. Social and Cultural Issues, Feminist Studies, and Third World Studies. Feminist Studies (FS), an outgrowth of the 1970- 1971 Women’s History seminar, became its own program in 1971. Third World Studies (TWS) also had some degree of autonomy and became a program in 1978-1979. TWS and FS often had their own staff coordinators. The Women’s Council appears to have governed FS, while the Third World Council guided TWS even before it became a program.
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G-C’s governing body was the People’s Council. Each project sent a representative to the Council, and took turns chairing the meetings and printing the newsletter (which included the minutes). Most projects were also represented on standing committees.
G-C’s staff included the core faculty members, work-study student assistants, and office coordinators. The core faculty consisted of two or three members of Goddard College’s faculty. Goddard College referred to the rest of the project leaders as “field faculty.” The core faculty helped administer G-C, joined Goddard College’s other off-campus program faculty on the external degree committee and the graduate council, and served as G-C’s voice at Goddard College. Office coordinators, responsible for G-C’s record keeping, were also in contact with the college.
New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, an accreditor, started an extensive audit of Goddard College beginning in the spring of 1972. NEACSS reaccredited Goddard in December 1975. The review included G-C and Goddard self-studies, an examination of G-C by Goddard, and investigations of both institutions by external authorities from NEACSS. Goddard College and G-C also faced an accreditation review by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
G-C constantly fought for financial survival, for autonomy, and with Goddard College over curricular and monetary matters. Over its nine-year history, G-C’s experimental curriculum and egalitarian student-faculty relationships gradually formed their own institutional norm. At the same time, G-C attempted to be responsive to changing student and community interests and engaged in a great deal of self-criticism. Some combination of G-C’s internal battles, disagreements with Goddard College, and Goddard College’s own fiscal problems led G-C to cease existing after the 1978-1979 school year. Goddard College discontinued all but a Feminist Studies core faculty member and part of the Feminist Studies program.
SCOPE AND CONTENT These records document the activities of the Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change and consist of files kept by a variety of faculty and staff members and one student throughout the school’s history. Materials include minutes, correspondence, flyers, newsletters, pamphlets, and articles. The collection is divided into four series: Publications, General Records, Chronological Records, and Students’ Files.
This collection contains material that documents G-C’s nine-year history, changing self- definition, relationship with Goddard, and its students’ interests. This collection also provides some information about G-C’s operation and demise and documents a 1970s alternative graduate program. Although much of this collection provides the view of G-C that the school
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presented to outsiders (such as accreditors and Goddard College) or potential students, there is also documentation of G-C's internal debates and the way it functioned.
Although it includes some general information about students, this collection does not contain official student records. Goddard-Cambridge’s student records apparently were transferred to Goddard College.
ARRANGEMENT This collection is arranged in four series. The series and subseries arrangement of the records is as follows:
Series I. Publications, circa 1970-1979 Series II. General Records, 1970-1979 Series III. Chronological Files, 1970-1979 Series IV. Students’ Files, 1972-1973
SERIES LIST WITH NOTES SERIES I. Publications, circa 1970-1979 Folders 1-16 consist of catalogs, journals and other material published by G-C or written by G-C students or faculty. This series also includes a student project and other items from the Feminist Studies library.
SERIES II. General Records, 1970-1979 Folders 17-28 consists of files including graduates’ names, project names and graduation dates, as well as letters of verification of graduation, information about the Feminist Studies program and students, and other material.
SERIES III. Chronological Files, 1970-1979 Folders 29-208 include correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, a sign (#208), and other material. Files pertaining to a particular year are filed with that year, even if they were created the previous year (such as planning and advertising records). Although every record type/topic does not exist for every year, the records are divided within each school year as follows:
Curriculum Feminist Studies (FS) Third World Studies (TWS) Administration General Accreditation
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SERIES IV. Students’ Files, 1972-1973 Folders 209-211 consist of files kept by B. Ann Crisafulli, a student who attended G-C. Her files include discussion questions, notes, reports, and position papers from the 1972-1973 “Women and Socialization,” or Feminist Studies, ovular.
CONTAINER LIST
Box: 1 SERIES I. Publications, circa 1970-1979 Catalogs 1. 1970-1971, includes program descriptions, 1970-1971 2. Catalogs, 1971-1972 3. Catalogs, 1972-1973 4. Catalogs, 1974-1975 5. Catalogs, 1975-1976 6. Catalogs, 1976-1977 7. Catalogs, 1977-1978 8. 1978-1979 admissions pamphlet, course descriptions for Social and Cultural Issues, and Third World Studies, 1978-1979 9. Goddard College Graduate Program information booklet, early 1970s, circa 1970-1975
Journal of the Goddard-Cambridge Community 10. Name Me, December 1973; Women’s Issues, July 1974; Arts and Social Change, 1974 March 11. 1975-76 (January); Feminist Studies Issue, 1976 May 12. March 1977; Feminist Studies Issue, 1977 March
By G-C faculty or students 13. Women’s Work is Never Done: A Dramatic Reading on the history of working women in America, 1972?; Linda Gordon, Persis Hunt, Elizabeth Pleck, Marcia Scott, and Rochelle Zeigler, “A Review of Sexism in America Historical Writing,” reprinted from Women’s Studies (1972) :133-58; Directory: jobs, mvmt. groups, transportation, rent, etc., circa 1972 14. Playgroups: How to Grow Your Own, From Infancy Onward, 1974; The Abortion Business: A Report on Free-standing Abortion Clinics, 1975; Marcos and U.S. Aid: Statement by D.B. Schirmer and Summary of Logistics of Repression, 1975
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From Feminist Studies Library 15. Woman is My Name, songbook, 1972; “Final Projects Checkout Book,” 1972-1973 16. Women’s Literature Project, Final Project: Images of Woman (photographs), 1978-1979
Series II. General Records, 1970-1979 Graduates of G-C 17. 1970-1974 18. 1975 19. 1976 20. 1977 21. 1978 22. Final projects flow charts and indices, 1970-1971 through 1978-1979 students, 1970- 1979 23. Final projects flow charts and indices, 1970-1971 through 1978-79 students, 1970-1979 24. Names and addresses of graduates, 1971-1977
Box: 2 25. Diplomas (blank), undated 26. Open Reading Series, undated
Feminist Studies 27. List of master’s theses, 1971-1976 28. Historical tidbits, 1973-1977
Series III. Chronological Files, 1970-1979 29. Curriculum: course proposals, 1970-1971 30. FS: “Cambridge-Goddard Women’s History Program,” grant proposals for 1970-1971? [See also #54], circa 1970-1971
31-49: Administration 31-44: General 31. Re: founding of and planning for C-G, includes budgets, 1970-1971 32. Re: founding of and planning for C-G, includes budgets, 1970-1971 33. Re: founding of and planning for C-G, includes budgets, 1970-1971 34. Cambridge Institute, 1970-1971 35. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1970-1971 36. Degree granting procedure, 1970-1971 37. Faculty withdrawals, 1970-1971 38. Faculty, some re: 1971-1972
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39. Advertising, 1970-1971 40. Financial Aid, 1970-1971 41. Study of C-G: Ripmaster, 1970-1971 42. Union Graduate School Plan, 1970-1971 43. Other Experimental programs of interest, 1970-1973 44. Organizational scheme for office files; includes 1971-1972
Goddard College 45. Correspondence with Will Hamlin (Assistant to the President), most re: graduation of students, 1970-1971 46. Correspondence with Will Hamlin (Assistant to the President), most re: graduation of students, 1970-1971 47. Goddard Graduate Programs, 1970-1972 48. Contract Committee meetings, 1970-1971 49. Cash flow – getting money from Goddard, 1970-1971
Curriculum 50. Course proposals, 1971-1972 51. Course proposals, 1971-1972 52. Project descriptions, 1971-1972
Box: 3 Feminist Studies 53. From scrapbook, 1971-1972 54. Fundraising. See also #30, 1971-1972
55. Third World Studies, 1971-1972
56-78: Administration 56-72: General. See also #38, 43, 44, 88 56. Planning, proposed models, 1971-1972 57. People’s Council Minutes, 1971-1972 58. People’s Council Minutes, 1971-1972 59. Miscellaneous correspondence and resources, 1971-1972 60. Correspondence with Robert Bresler (former faculty member), 1971-1972 61. Faculty inquiries, 1971-1972 62. Student and faculty directory, 1971-1972 63. Correspondence with students and faculty, 1971-1972 64. Student/faculty questionnaire, 1971-1972
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65. Admissions, procedures and standards, 1971-1972 66. Degree granting procedure, 1971-1972 67. Immigration/Veterans Administration, 1971-1972 68. Advertising, 1971-1972 69. Financial Aid, 1971-1972 70. Budget: planning and update, 1971-1972 71. Cash flow: monthly income and expense sheets, 1971-1972 72. Collecting tuition, 1971-1972
73. Accreditation – all doings, 1971-1972
Goddard College. See also #47, 103 74. Planning: C-G Administrative Council and Goddard External Degree Council, 1971-1972 75. Correspondence with Central Records Office, 1971-1972 76. Goddard External Degree Council [See also #82, 104], 1971-1972 77. Goddard External Degree Council [See also #82, 104], 1971-1972 78. Goddard External Degree Council [See also #82, 104], 1971-1972
Curriculum 79. “What does getting an MA have to do with Radical Social Change,” by the Alternative Institutions Project, 1972-1973 80. Project reports, 1972-1973
Box: 4 81. Third World Studies graduate program, proposal for contingency funding, undated
82-107: Administration 82-95: General. See also #43 82. Self-critical Planning Conference [See also #76-78], undated 83. People’s Council minutes/newsletters, undated 84. People’s Council minutes/newsletters, undated 85. Selection of core faculty, circa 1972-1973 86. Faculty meeting minutes, agendas, undated 87. Graduation requirements, undated 88. Graduation of students, some re: 1971-1972, 1971-1972 89. Recommendation cover letter, undated 90. Advertising, undated 91. Salaries, etc., undated 92. Faculty salaries, undated
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93. Field faculty salaries/payment, undated 94. Project expenses committee, undated 95. Finances. Includes some re: 1973-1974 budget, 1973-1974
Accreditation 96. Copy of material sent to Goddard? Audit Committee, undated 97. C-G audit report, forms, questionnaire, undated 98. C-G audit report, forms, questionnaire, undated 99. Accreditation self-study, undated 100. C-G? Audit Committee, undated 101. Material re: Goddard educational audit, circa 1972-1973 102. Goddard Accreditation documents and correspondence, undated
103-107: Goddard College 103. Correspondence with Will Hamlin, most re: graduation of students, some re: 1971- 1972, 1971-1972 104. Draft of contract between Goddard and C-G [See also #76-78], undated 105. Goddard application forms, undated 106. Correspondence with Central Records. Includes article re: confidentiality, undated
Box: 5 107. “Official statements.” Mostly re: external degree faculty handbook, undated 108. Feminist Studies: proposals, women’s council minutes, etc., 1973-1974
108a-128: Administration 108a-118: General 108a. People’s Council minutes/newsletters. Also, Feminist Studies/Women’s Council minutes and proposals, 1973-1974 109. People’s Council minutes/newsletters. Also, Feminist Studies/Women’s Council minutes and proposals, 1973-1974 110. People’s Council minutes/newsletters. Also, Feminist Studies/Women’s Council minutes and proposals, 1973-1974 111. Staff meeting minutes, 1973-1974 112. Core faculty search committee. Includes “Whither Cambridge-Goddard,” by Richard Krushnic, 1973-1974 113. Student/faculty information packet, 1973-1974 114. Status of students’ final reports, 1973-1974 115. Degree requirements, Degree Review Committee, 1973-1974 116. Non-B.A. students, 1973-1974
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117. Advertising, 1973-1974 118. Budget and finance [See also #95], 1973-1974
Goddard College. See also #123. 119. Contract. Includes “other models.”, 1973-1974 120. Graduate Council, 1973-1974 121. Correspondence with Will Hamlin, most re: graduation of students, 1973-1974 122. Correspondence with Goddard Graduate Program, mostly re: accreditation, 1973- 1974
Accreditation 123. Liaison Committee, 1973-1974 124. Accreditation-internal. Includes re: liaison committee [see also #123], 1973-1974 125. Accreditation-internal. Includes re: liaison committee [see also #123], 1973-1974 126. Accreditation-external, (includes internal report), 1973-1974 127. Accreditation-external, (includes internal report), 1973-1974
Box: 6 128. Accreditation, 1973-1974
Feminist Studies 129. Introduction to program, correspondence, clippings re: issues FS supported, 1974- 1975 130. Herstory Notes of the Year, includes minutes, agendas, announcements, etc., 1974- 1975
131-145: Administration 131-138: General 131. People’s Council. For minutes [see #132], 1974-1975 132. Newsletters, 1974-1975 133. Staff meeting minutes, 1974-1975 134. Orientation for faculty and students. Includes “A Very Short History of C-G.”, 1974- 1975 135. Meeting notices for history of the year, 1974-1975 136. Friday night forum, 1974-1975 137. Graduation requirements, 1974-1975 138. Core Faculty Search Committee, 1974-1975
Accreditation
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139. Correspondence, notes, re: self-study, external auditors, 1974-1975 140. Preparatory material for Mass. Accreditation, 1974-1975 141. Material for Mass. Board Accreditors, 1974-1975 142. Material for Mass. Board Accreditors, 1974-1975 143. Petition to Commonwealth of Massachusetts, etc., 1974-1975
Goddard College 144. Business meeting notes, 1974-1975 145. Final projects, 1974-1975
146. Feminist Studies coordinator, 1975-1976
147-157: Administration 147-154: General 147. People’s Council [for minutes see #148], 1975-1976 148. Newsletters, 1975-1976
Box: 7 149. Staff meeting minutes, 1975-1976 150. Field faculty meeting minutes. Some re: 1976-1977, 1975-1977 151. Faculty selection: project proposal guidelines, evaluations, etc., 1975-1976 152. Student information packet, 1975-1976 153. Graduation requirements, 1975-1976 154. Statistics: general, 1975-1976
Goddard College 155. Correspondence with Will Hamlin, most re: graduation of students, 1975-1976 156. Correspondence with Dick Graham (Goddard’s president), 1975-1976 157. General correspondence. Includes some re: faculty employment, 1975-1976
158-166: Administration 158-163: General. See also #150 158. Non-B.A. Committee, sub-committee on non-B.A. study proposal to Les Humphries, 1976-1977 159. General correspondence re: graduating students, 1976-1977 160. Hiring committee for faculty (US empire and US cultural issues), 1976-1977 161. Orientation/registration, 1976-1977 162. Work Study Program, 1976-1977 163. Statistics, 1976-1977
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164. Massachusetts Board Accreditation, 1977 January 165. Goddard College: correspondence with Les Humphries (graduate program dean), includes some from 1977-1978, 1976-1978 166. Goddard College: correspondence with Les Humphries (graduate program dean), includes some from 1977-1978, 1976-1978
Curriculum 167. Teacher Certification: transcript materials and program information, 1977-1978 168. Short course evaluations, circa 1977-1978
Feminist Studies 169. Hiring Committee: student evaluations of re-applying faculty, some re: 1976-1977 applicants, 1977-1978 170. Hiring Committee, 1977-1978 171. Faculty meeting notes, 1977-1978
Box: 8 172. Women’s Council, 1977-1978 173. Coordinator: Debora Pearlman, 1977-1978 174. Publicity/media coverage, article re: Feminist education for publication by Charlotte Bunch, 1977-1978 175. Publicity/media coverage, article re: Feminist education for publication by Charlotte Bunch, 1977-1978 176. State manpower planning grant, Project TASC, 1977-1978 177. Women’s Educational Equity Act preapplication and forms. For “A Community /University Review Board on Women: A Boston Area Model.”, 1977-1978
Third World Studies. See also #191, 193 178. Third World Council. Includes some from, 1976-1977 179. General correspondence, 1977-1978 180. Coordinator, 1977-1978 181. List of TW students and faculty, 1977-1979 182. Resource materials, 1977-1978 183. Organizations, 1977-1978
184-189: Administration 184-188: General 184. People’s Council minutes. Includes a few newsletters, 1977-1978 185. Staff meetings minutes, 1977-1978
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186. Faculty hiring, 1977-1978 187. Project flow chart expenses, 1977-1978 188. Work Study Program, 1977-1978 189. Goddard College: correspondence with Dick Walton (Goddard Library). See also #165- 166, 1977-1978 190. Feminist Studies correspondence, 1978-1979
Third World Studies. See also #181 191. Third World Experience course, circa 1978 192. Recruitment. Includes student information packet, 1978-1979 193. TWS Program, includes student information packets, also some re: 1977-1978, 1977- 1979
194-207: Administration 194-206: General 194. Newsletter, 1978-1979 195. Proposal to institute short courses, 1978-1979 196. Spring racism workshops, 1978-1979
Box: 9 197. Student handbook and orientation packet, 1978-1979 198. Core Faculty Union, 1978-1979 199. State of G-C. “Whether and what to be, etc. Etc.”, 1978-1979
Charges of racism, and other internal and external disturbances 200. Racism fact file [Steering Committee file?], undated 201. Racism fact file [Steering Committee file?], undated 202. Inquiry Committee, re: racism charges, undated 203. Demise #1. Much re: racism charges, undated 204. Demise #1. Much re: racism charges, undated 205. Demise #2. (The G-C vs. Goddard College/John Hall Story”). Includes curriculum reorganizational proposal, undated 206. The Divorce and Property Settlement, undated
207. Goddard College: correspondence with Jill Tarule, undated 208. Sign from door: “Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change”, undated
Series IV. Students’ Files, 1972-1973 B. Ann Crisafulli, “Women and Socialization” ovular, 1972-1973
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209. Seminar notes, 1972-1973 210. Seminar notes, 1972-1973 211. Ovular notes, 1972-1973
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