Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- University Archives and State University of New York. Research Foundation (1951-)
- Abstract:
- The State University of New York Research Foundation Collection, circa 1957-1984 includes charter and by-laws, policy manuals, expenditure profile, handbooks, guides, and published materials.
- Extent:
- .417 Linear Feet and 1 letter size manuscript box
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
[Description and date of item], Box/folder number, State University of New York Research Foundation Collection, circa 1957-1984, University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Background
- Scope and Content:
The State University of New York Research Foundation Collection, circa 1957-1984 includes charter and by-laws, policy manuals, expenditure profile, handbooks, guides, and published materials.
- Biographical / Historical:
The State University of New York Research Foundation was chartered on February 16, 1951 (No. 5999) and amended on June 29, 1951 (No. 6065) by the Board of Regents for and on behalf of the State Education Department. The charter originally incorporated Alvin Eurich, Charles Foster, Irving Waxman, Carlyle Jacobsen, Reubin Frodin, Lawrence Jarvie, Hermann Cooper, John Weiss, and Kent Brown as the first board members. Its purpose was to assist in developing and increasing the facilities of State University of New York to provide more extensive educational opportunities for and service to its students, faculty, staff and alumni, and to the people of the State of New York, by making and encouraging gifts, grants, contributions, and donations of real and personal property to or for the benefit of State University of New York. The purpose of the research foundation was also to receive, hold, and administer gifts or grants, and to act without profits as trustee of educational or charitable trusts. They were also responsible for financing studies and research in any and all fields of arts and sciences.
- Acquisition information:
- The State University of New York Research Foundation Collection, circa 1957-1984 was removed from the University Archives vertical files, in April, 2019 as accession 19-006.
- Processing information:
Processed by Amy Vilz, April 2019; finding aid encoded by Rebecca Cobb, May 2019.
- Arrangement:
The State University of New York Research Foundation Collection, circa 1957-1984, is arranged chronologically.
- Accruals:
No further accruals are expected.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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The State University of New York Research Foundation Collection, circa 1957-1984, is open for research.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Copyright is held by The State University of New York at Buffalo, University Archives. Copyright in other 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:
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[Description and date of item], Box/folder number, State University of New York Research Foundation Collection, circa 1957-1984, University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
- CONTACT:
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716-645-2916lib-archives@buffalo.edu