Collection ID: 3.5.1369

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Siggelkow, Richard A., Siggelkow, Richard A., and University Archives
Abstract:
Collection contains material Richard Siggelkow kept while researching for his book, Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Siege, Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991. Also included are personal correspondence, essays, and clippings regarding his role as Dean of Students later Vice President for Student Affairs.
Extent:
1.251 Linear Feet and 3 manuscript boxes
Language:
Collection material in English.
Preferred citation:

[Description and dates], Box/folder number, 3/5/1369, Richard A.

Siggelkow Campus Unrest collection, 1961-1991, University Archives, State

University of New York at Buffalo.

Background

Scope and Content:
Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Siege
Biographical / Historical:

Richard A. Siggelkow received his B.A. (1941), M.A. (1948), and Ph.D. (1953) in Education from the University of Wisconsin. He came to the University at Buffalo in 1958 as Dean of Students. In 1967 he was promoted to Vice President for Student Affairs and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1983. Dr. Siggelkow also was a faculty member in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology.

Prior to his service at UB he had been assistant dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin from 1956 to 1958 and associate director of the University of Wisconsin Teacher Placement Bureau from 1949-1956. He also taught history and social studies at the secondary school level from 1945 to 1947.

During World War II he rose from the rank of private in the Field Artillery to a major during his active duty period. He retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as colonel. He was awarded the Bronze Star during his 38 months of service in the European and African Theaters of Operations during the war and took part in eight battle campaigns.

As Vice President for Student Affairs, Richard Siggelkow was intimately involved in the years of campus unrest at the University at Buffalo,

particularly 1966 through 1970. Issues of academic freedom, recruitment by the

Selective Service and Dow Chemical Corporation, the Vietnam War, as well as

demands for a more democratic administration of the University that would

include faculty and students, caused protests on campus.

Acquisition information:
Received from Richard Siggelkow circa 1990s.
Processing information:

Processed by Karen Spencer, June 2011. Finding aid migrated to ArchivesSpace by Danielle White, November 2014. Additional material added and collection reprocessed by William Offhaus, March 2019.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in two series: I. Campus Unrest and II. Student Affairs. Within each series files are arranged chronologically by the beginning date of the material. Campus Unrest photographs can be found at the end of series I and are also arranged chronologically.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected to this collection.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

The Richard A. Siggelkow Campus Unrest collection, 1961-1991 is open

for research.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors,

or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written

permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before

publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be

copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise

specified.

PREFERRED CITATION:

[Description and dates], Box/folder number, 3/5/1369, Richard A.

Siggelkow Campus Unrest collection, 1961-1991, University Archives, State

University of New York at Buffalo.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
420 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260, United States
CONTACT:
716-645-2916
lib-archives@buffalo.edu