Henry N. Ricciuti papers, 1946-2008.
Collection Number: 23-13-2551

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Henry N. Ricciuti papers, 1946-2008.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-13-2551
Abstract:
Files relating to the career of Henry N. Ricciuti, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies in the New York State College of Human Ecology.
Creator:
Ricciuti, Henry N.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)
Quanitities:
8.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, New York State College of Human Ecology.
Henry Ricciuti earned his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. (1949), all in psychology from Fordham University, and served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 1958, he served as an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, research associate at the Educational Testing Service, and assistant professor at the University of Colorado Medical School. At Cornell, he was a professor in the Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies (1958-1988), specialized in early childhood development, especially the factors associated with cognitive and emotional development of infants and young children. He was an active emeritus professor from 1988-2011.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Henry N. Ricciuti papers, #23-13-2551. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

Files relating to the reorganization of the College of Human Ecology, particularly the Reorganization Committee, chaired by Dr. Ricciuti; files relating to his membership on the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs, 1966-1969, with much material on events leading up to the Straight takeover in April 1969; and materials relating to Cornell's involvement with day care, starting with the Cornell Day Care Committee, 1971-1972; the Cornell-Tompkins County Day Care Project, 1972-1974; the Infant Care and Resource Center, operated in Sage Infirmary, 1975-1980, under a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission; and the unsuccessful efforts to continue to offer work-site infant day care on campus.

Scope and content

Includes material relating to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Developmpent (NICHD).

SUBJECTS

Names:
New York State College of Human Ecology
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University. Faculty Committee on Student Affairs
Cornell University. Cornell Day Care Committee
Cornell-Tompkins County Day Care Project
Cornell University. Infant Care and Resource Center
Subjects:
Students -- Political activity.
African American student movements -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Day care centers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Employer-supported day care.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. College of Home Economics Organization Committee
Box 1 Folder 1
College Organization Committee
1967-1968
Box 1 Folder 2
College Organization Committee
1967
Box 1 Folder 3-5
Dean's Committee on Reorganization
1967-1969
Box 1 Folder 6
Reorganization Committee
1968
Box 1 Folder 7
College study reports and faculty actions
1966-1967
Box 1 Folder 8
Organization Committee report - first copy
1968
Box 1 Folder 9-10
Factual data - general
1966-1968
Box 1 Folder 11-12
Department reactions to organization
1968
Box 1 Folder 13-14
Organization Committee - Textiles and Clothing
1967-1968
Box 1 Folder 15
Organization Committee - Extension
1968
Box 1 Folder 15A
"Summary of Programmatic & Structural Changes in the College 1965 - 1970" written by Ricciuti
1995
Series II. Faculty Committee on Student Affairs (FCSA)
Box 1 Folder 16-18
FCSA
1966-1969
Box 1 Folder 19-24
FCSA
1967-1968
Box 1 Folder 25-26
Student Code
1968
Box 1 Folder 27-30
FCSA
1969
Series III. Infant Day Care and Resource Center
Box 1 Folder 31
Correspondence - local: Tompkins County/Cornell University Infant Care and Resource Center
1975-1976
Box 1 Folder 32
Infant Day Care and Resource Center - original proposal
1975
Box 1 Folder 33
Infant Day Care and Resource Center - second year proposal
1977-1978
Series IV. Cornell-Tompkins Day Care Project
Box 1 Folder 34-35
Cornell-Tompkins Day Care Project
1973-1974
Box 1
Report and Recommendations of the Cornell-Tompkins Day Care Project
August 1974
Box 2 Folder 1-6
Day Care Project
1973-1974
Box 2 Folder 7-8
Day Care Project - Task Force
1974
Box 2 Folder 9
Day Care Project - report
1974
Box 2 Folder 10
Proposal to establish Infant Care and Resource Center
1974
Box 2 Folder 11-12
Day Care Committee
1972
Box 2 Folder 13
Day Care Proposal
1980
Series V. University Related Files
Box 4 Folder 1
Minority Education Committee
1999-2003
Box 4 Folder 2
Ombudsman position
1986-1994
Box 4 Folder 3
Weiss Fellowship Committee
1996-1997
Box 4 Folder 4
Emeritus Professor Tutorial Project
1990-1992
Box 4 Folder 5
Cornell '69 in Retrospect
May 1999
Box 4 Folder 6
Emeritus PC computer workshop
1996-1998
Box 4 Folder 7
Emeritus one-on-one computer help
1997-1998
Box 4 Folder 8
CAPE survey of emeritus faculty
1999-2002, 2004
Box 4 Folder 9
CAPE survey concerning office space
2002
Series VI. Department Related Files
Box 4 Folder 10
Chair-correspondence
1970-1973
Box 4 Folder 11
Chair-correspondence
1982-1986
Box 4 Folder 12
Graduate field matters
1980-1982, 1988-1989
Box 4 Folder 13
A.D. White Professorship
1985-1991
Box 4 Folder 14
Corporate child care venture
1986-1989
Box 4 Folder 15
Proposed Developmental Sciences Program
1986
Box 4 Folder 16
Chair-department issues
1989-1996
Box 4 Folder 17
Chair search
December 1990-January 1991
Box 4 Folder 18
Department review and structure
1988-1997
Box 4 Folder 19
Affirmative Action-recruiting faculty-Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development
1995
Box 4 Folder 20
Acting department chair (appointment of Steve Robertson as chair)
Summer 1997
Box 4 Folder 21
Chair search
Spring 1997
Box 4 Folder 22
Department governance statement
1997-1998
Box 4 Folder 23
Early Childhood Center; changes in Nursery School
1997-2002
Series VII. International Programs
Box 4 Folder 24
Bogota and follow-up
1988
Box 4 Folder 25
Visit to Caracas and follow-up
1988
Box 4 Folder 26
Visits to Caracas
1980, 1984
Series VIII. College Related Files
Box 4 Folder 39
Correspondence with Dean/Provost David Knapp
1972-1977
Box 4 Folder 27
Pre-med minority students-Cornell Medical Summer Fellowship Program
1980-1985
Box 4 Folder 28
Summer minority fellowships-Cornell-City College of New York
1988-1989
Box 4 Folder 29
Minority student recruitment and retention report
1988-1989
Box 4 Folder 30
Minority summer fellowships-Cornell/Hunter
1990-1992
Box 4 Folder 31
Affirmative Action Planning
1989-1993
Box 4 Folder 32
MARC Program
1991, 1996
Box 4 Folder 33
Undergraduate RAs-minority mentoring
1991-1998
Box 4 Folder 34
Minority faculty/student recruitment, Human Ecology/Hunter exchanges
1992-1993
Box 4 Folder 35
Recruiting minority grad students via summer fellowships
1992-1993
Box 4 Folder 36
Minority faculty recruitment: effective strategies-Affirmative Action
1998-1999
Box 4 Folder 37
College faculty seminar-Ethnic/Cultural Factors in Research
1994-1995
Box 4 Folder 38
Historical Overview of College Changes 1965-1970- Report to Dean
November 1995
Box 4 Folder 40
College statement for Incoming president
1994-1995
Box 4 Folder 41
College statement on the public access to research data from grants
1999
Box 4 Folder 42
Evaluation report-College Affirmative Action Program
1990-1995
Box 4 Folder 43
Graduate student recruitment, summer fellowships
1990-1996
Box 4 Folder 44
Family Life Development Center (FLDC)-Dean's Advisory Committee
1991-1992
Box 4 Folder 45-46
FLDC director search
1992
Box 4 Folder 47-48
FLDC director search-first search
1992-1993
Box 4 Folder 98
FLDC director search-re-opened
1993-1994
Box 4 Folder 50
FLDC -Advisory Committee
1994-1996
Box 10 Folder 23
Studies for Cornell Nursery School
1972-1974
Box 10 Folder 24-25
Studies for Cornell Nursery School
1974
Box 10 Folder 26
Poster submission - Maternal and Family Predictors of School Readiness
1988-1993
Box 10 Folder 27
Poster submission - Correcting for Gestation Age in Infant Developmental Testing
1988, 1989
Box 10 Folder 28
Panel on parenting
2003
Box 4 Folder 51
Ricciuti lectures
2004-2010
Series IX. Proposals, Studies, Research
Box 5 Folder 1-12
Categorization paper
1999-2006
Box 5 Folder 13-25
Sorting Studies
1962-1998
Box 5 Folder 26-39
Research programs in early development and education
1967-1974
Box 5 Folder 40-42
Ricciuti/Breitmeyer Studies
1978-1980
Box 5 Folder 43
NIH proposal
1982
Box 5 Folder 44-47
Rural Poor Study
1984-1989
Box 5 Folder 48
Crowding Study
2002-2005
Box 5 Folder 49-53
Research consulting
1983-1994
Box 5 Folder 54
USDA- WICF Child Impact Study Technical Advisory Panel
1991
Box 5 Folder 55
Comprehensive child development programs
1993-1996
Box 5 Folder 56
Program review-University of Connecticut
2003
Box 5 Folder 57
Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center-proposal reviews
2005
Box 5 Folder 58
Book review-"the Man in the Scientist"
1952
Box 5 Folder 59
Reviews of journal manuscripts submitted for publication
1986-1994
Box 10 Folder 1-9
Single parent research
1995-2008
Box 10 Folder 29
Coding-Rural Poor Study
1993
Box 10
Rural Poor Study code book, variable list
1986-1992
Series X. Photographs
Box 3 Folder 1
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Summer Institute at Cornell
June 1984
Box 3 Folder 1
Protein Energy and Mental Development Meeting in Bellagio, Italy- to review INCAP, Guatemala Studies
July 1990
Box 3 Folder 1
International Workshop on Nutrition and Child Development at the University of Baroda, India
November 1982
Box 3 Folder 1
Two photos of Henry Ricciuti
1980s, 1960s
Box 3 Folder 1
Cornell Countryman
January 1965
Box 3 Folder 1
Human Development and Family Studies Department- photo taken on the steps of Baker Lab during Henry's second term as Department Chair
1988
Series XI. Publications
Box 2 Folder 14
"Adverse Social and Biological Influences on Early Development" - by Ricciuti
1976?
Box 2 Folder 15
"A Good Beginning For Babies: Guidelines for Group Care" - by Ricciuti and Anne Willis
1974
Box 2 Folder 16
"A Case Study of a University's Pattern of Error" - paper by Allan P. Sindler of Cornell, presented at annual meeting of the American Political Science Association
1969
Box 10 Folder 10
Reprint list
Box 10 Folder 11
Publications
1951-1953
Box 10 Folder 12
Publications
1954-1957
Box 10 Folder 13
Publications
1960s
Box 10 Folder 14
Publications
1970-1973
Box 10 Folder 15
Publications
1974-1979
Box 10 Folder 16
Publications
1980s
Box 10 Folder 17
Publications
1990-1994
Box 10 Folder 18
Publications
1995-2008
Box 10 Folder 19
Comments on Cornell 1969
1999
Box 10 Folder 20
"When Research Findings and Social Norms Collide" - Publication History
2005
Box 10 Folder 21
Policy Constraints on Research Reporting - background to paper
2005
Box 10 Folder 22
Akron paper
2007-2008
Series XII. Correspondence
Box 8 Folder 1
From U.S. Army to Fordham University - Instructor, PhD thesis, job search
1946-1948
Box 8 Folder 2
Fordham University to University of Connecticut
1948-1949
Box 8 Folder 3
Educational Testing Service (Princeton)
1949-1953
Box 8 Folder 4
Exploring position change - from Educational Testing Service, Princeton
1952-1954
Box 8 Folder 5
Move to Colorado
1953-1954
Box 8 Folder 6
Exploring job openings from the University of Colorado
1956-1957
Box 8 Folder 7
University of Colorado, Child Research Council
1955-1958
Box 8 Folder 8
Move from University of Colorado; Cornell - appointment to Associate Professor
1957-1959
Box 8 Folder 9
Return to Denver
1959
Box 8 Folder 10
Court Brief in Child Custody (Biological vs. "Adoptive" Mother)
1960
Box 8 Folder 11
Appointment to full professor
1958-1965
Box 8 Folder 12
NIMH senior stipend award- sabbatic -London
1964-1965
Box 8 Folder 13
Correspondence
1971-1981
Box 8 Folder 14
Correspondence
1982-1986
Box 8 Folder 15
Correspondence
1986-1994
Box 8 Folder 16
New York Times letter
September 21, 1992
Box 8 Folder 17
Correspondence
1995-1996
Box 8 Folder 18
Correspondence
1997-2000
Box 8 Folder 19
Correspondence
2001-2003
Box 8 Folder 19A
Correspondence
2004-2006
Series XIII. Subject Files
Box 8 Folder 20
Vitas, Bibliography
1953-2008
Box 8 Folder 21
Appointment to Cornell
1966-1995
Box 8 Folder 22
Annual reports
1969-1998
Box 8 Folder 23
Trip reports - Bogota and Caracas
1988
Box 8 Folder 24
Awards and sabbatical information
1957-2001
Box 8 Folder 25
Retirement symposium
October 1989
Box 8 Folder 26
Emeriti Professor Advisory Council
1994-2004
Box 8 Folder 27
CAPE survey
2002
Box 8 Folder 28
Professor Lee Lee
2006
Box 8 Folder 29
Ithaca City School District - Steve Hamilton
2007-2008
Box 8 Folder 30
Minority faculty recruitment
2007
Box 8 Folder 31
Research proposal - NIH
2007
Box 8 Folder 32
Universal Pre-K
2008
Series XIV. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Box 8 Folder 33-44
NICHD Steering Committee and publications and papers
1991-2008
Box 9
Memos, notes and correspondence from service as chairman of the Steering Committee guiding the study (1989-05-1991-05)and subsequently as a member of the Advisory Board appointed by and reporting to the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1991-08-2005-05)
1989-2005