Guide to the James A. Perkins Papers,
1941-1990.

Collection Number: 3-10-3158

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
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2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Staff
Date completed:
July 2001
EAD encoding:
Peter Martinez, April 15, 2004

© 2004 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990.
Collection Number:
3-10-3158
Creator:
James Alfred Perkins 1911-
Quantity:
8.5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Speeches, news clippings, subject files, photographs, corresponence, certificates.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Papers relating to James Perkins' career before coming to Cornell; speeches and articles; files relating to his inauguration as Cornell's president; files relating to activities at Cornell, including the events of 1969; subject files relating to other activities; a few photographs and personal letters; and certificates and honorary degrees.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

President, Cornell University, 1963-1969.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers relating to James Perkins' career before coming to Cornell; speeches and articles; files relating to his inauguration as Cornell's president; files relating to activities at Cornell, including the events of 1969; subject files relating to other activities; a few photographs and personal letters; and certificates and honorary degrees.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Perkins, James Alfred,1911-
Cornell University.Office of the President.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
James A. Perkins papers, #3-10-3158. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Speeches, lectures, and addresses
Boxes 1 and 2
Series II. Articles
Boxes 3 and 4
Series III. Cornell Presidency
Boxes 4 and 5
Series IV. International Council for Educational Development
Boxes 5 and 6
Series V. Miscellaneous personal papers
(Letters, invitations, interviews, honorary degrees, clippings)
Boxes 6 and 7

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1953
Public Administration Review- "Administration of the National Security Program"
Box 1 Folder 1
June 12, 1953
"Report on Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art"
Box 1 Folder 2
April 1955
Conference on Training in Administration- University of the West Indies
Box 1 Folder 3
August 1955
Mount Allison Summer Institute
Box 1 Folder 4
1958
Russian Research Center, Harvard- 10th Anniversary "A Wider Public for Area Studies"
Box 1 Folder 5
1958
Southern Regional Education Board-"National Security and Higher Education"
Box 1 Folder 6
1958
Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni
Box 1 Folder 7
Winter 1960
"The Campus-Forgotten Field. . ."- Admin. in the Halls of Ivy Symposium Public Admin. Review
Box 1 Folder 8
1960
"Power of the Democratic Idea" - The Rockefeller Panel Report
Box 1 Folder 9
1960
"Moral Judgments in Academic Structures" Conference on . . .Democratic Way of Life
Box 1 Folder 10
June 9, 1961
Commencement Address- Loomis School
Box 1 Folder 11
March 11, 1959
Yale 1935 Class Dinner
Box 1 Folder 12
May 12, 1960
"Private Foundation & Public Interest"- National Council on Community Foundations, Inc.
Box 1 Folder 13
1961
Case Inst. of Technology Commencement- "The New Community"
Box 1 Folder 14
Dec. 13, 1961
University of Akron- "Importance of Graduate Work"
Box 1 Folder 15
May 1962
Ohio University-"The Growing World of the University"
Box 1 Folder 16
December 17, 1962
Report of President's Advisory Panel on National Academy of Foreign Affairs
Box 1 Folder 17
April 1963
Council for Independent School Aid Speech
Box 1 Folder 18
May 1963
Deans in my Life- Tower Club
Box 1 Folder 19
1963
Cornell Inauguration Address-"The Future of Cornell"
Box 1 Folder 20
November 23, 1963
John F. Kennedy Memorial Convocation- Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 21
December 5, 1963
"Education and Freedom of Mind"- Atlantic City-Middle States Conference
Box 1 Folder 22
1963
NYU 6th Biennial Conference on Charitable Foundations
Box 1 Folder 23
1963
"What the New Foundation Executive Should Know"
Box 1 Folder 24
June 15, 1964
Commencement Address- Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 25
September 28, 1964
"Exploding Knowledge and Academic Community"- Brown University Bicentennial
Box 1 Folder 26
1964
ACE Annual Convention- "The New Conditions of Autonomy"- San Francisco
Box 1 Folder 27
September 1964
"The New Venture" and "The Heart of the Matter"- Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 28
January 24, 1965
"Should You Go to College?"- Philadelphia Bulletin Magazine interview
Box 1 Folder 29
April 15, 1965
University of Vienna, 600th Anniversary
Box 1 Folder 30
1965
Cornell University Centennial Celebration- NYC, Lincoln Center
Box 1 Folder 31
Spring 1965
"Call on Pres. Perkins at Cornell"- Princeton Quarterly
Box 1 Folder 32
June 6, 1965
University of Rochester- "Attention Must Be Paid"
Box 1 Folder 33
June 14, 1965
"The Spirit of the University" - Commencement Address for Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 34
November 1965
"Living with Science" - Experimental Science
Box 1 Folder 35
1963-1965
The University of the Arts
Box 1 Folder 36
July 17, 1965
"Should the Artist Come to Campus?"- Saturday Review
Box 1 Folder 37
Universities and the Arts
Box 1 Folder 38
December 2, 1965
Gold Medal Acceptance Speech- National Institute of Social Sciences
Box 1 Folder 39
October 1965
"The State of the University" - Speech to Board of Trustees
Box 1 Folder 40
February 1966
Long Island University 40th Anniversary- "The New Missions of the Private University" NYC
Box 1 Folder 41
February 1966
"The Responsibility of Power" - NY Times editorial
Box 1 Folder 42
March 15, 1966
"Three Missions of a University"- Princeton Alumni Weekly
Box 1 Folder 43
March 24, 1966
"Role of the Univ. in State's Future"- Agricultural Leader's Forum
Box 1 Folder 44
March 28, 1966
"Challenge & Response in Foreign Aid"- NY Times editorial
Box 1 Folder 45
June 5, 1966
"The Scholar-Modern Style"- Hamilton College Commencement
Box 1 Folder 46
June 13, 1966
"The Etiquette of University Debate"- Cornell Commencement
Box 1 Folder 47
June 1966
"The University or the Transistor"- NY Times article
Box 1 Folder 48
July 1966
"Foreign Aid and the Brain Drain"- Foreign Affairs
Box 1 Folder 49
July 1966
"Strategie Planificatrice"- Symposium de Delos
Box 1 Folder 50
September 21, 1966
"Education and the State"- Board of Regents NY state 92nd Convocation held in Albany, NY
Box 1 Folder 51
October 21, 1966
Japan International Christian University Foundation (Women's Planning Committee)- New York City
Box 1 Folder 52
October 25, 1966
"The Price of Choice"- College Entrance Examination Board
Box 1 Folder 53
November 16, 1966
"Business and Education"
Box 1 Folder 54
December 1966
"Chief School Officers"- Report of NY State Regents Advisory Committee on Educational Leadership
Box 1 Folder 55
1966-1967
Reviews of James Perkins', The University in Transition
Box 1 Folder 56
January 17, 1967
"Liberal Learning and the Learning Community"- Association of American Colleges Meeting
Box 1 Folder 57
May 1967
"On Ideals and Experience"- University of Illinois Honors Day Convocation
Box 1 Folder 58
May 1967
"College and University Presidents"- NY State Regents Advisory1 Committee on Educational Leadership
Box 1 Folder 59
June 12, 1967
Commencement Address- Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 60
July 1, 1967
"The Disquiet Americans & Local Wars"- NY Times editorial
Box 1 Folder 61
September 28, 1967
Convocation Address- Hampton Institute
Box 1 Folder 62
October 5-9, 1967
Addresses & Summary Report- International Conference on World Crisis in Education held in Williamsburg, VA
Box 1 Folder 63
December 8, 1967
New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools- Boston, Mass.
Box 1 Folder 64
March 1968
"The Restless Decade"- Cornell University Convocation held in NYC
Box 1 Folder 65
April 27 & October 16, 1968
"The Restless Student"- Bilderberg Conference & YWCA luncheon
Box 1 Folder 66
October 1968
President's General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs
Box 1 Folder 67
1968
"The Restless Student"- Reprint from Minerva
Box 1 Folder 68
May 9, 1968
"Cornell's Second Century"
Box 1 Folder 69
August 1968
"The University's Role in Higher Education Systems"- 10th Congress of Commonwealth Universities held in Australia
Box 1 Folder 70
November 1968
"The University and the New Priorities-National Industrial Conference Board held in New York City
Box 1 Folder 71
June 2, 1968
"The New Environment"- Notre Dame University
Box 2 Folder 1
January 1969
"The Moral Imperative"
Box 2 Folder 2
1968
"The Black in the White University"- United Negro College Fund- Washington D.C.
Box 2 Folder 3
February 5, 1969
"The Integrity of the University"- Cornell Daily Sun
Box 2 Folder 4
April 16, 1969
Draft of UCLA speech (not delivered)
Box 2 Folder 5
May 1969
Tower Club Paper- Annual Meeting of Tower Club of Cornell University
Box 2 Folder 6
June 25, 1969
"The Future of the Professional Schools"- American Society for Engineering Education- Forth Distinguished Lecture held at Penn State
Box 2 Folder 7
October 4, 1969
"Overloading the Private Sector"- NY Times editorial
Box 2 Folder 8
February 1970
"The University and Society"-UNESCO Symposium
Box 2 Folder 9
"University as Part of Larger Society"-draft
Box 2 Folder 10
January 1970
"Can University Governance be More Democratic?"- University of Hawaii; later reprinted in Higher Education For All
Box 2 Folder 11
October 24, 1973
Connecticut Council for Higher Education
Box 2 Folder 12
January 24, 1974
University of Wisconsin
Box 2 Folder 13
February 1974
"Graduate Education, International Studies and National Interest"- University of Florida
Box 2 Folder 14
April 1974
Buffalo Council on World Affairs
Box 2 Folder 15
Fall 1974
"The University-Old Ghosts and New"-DAEDALUS
Box 2 Folder 16
January 1975
"Look, Ma, No Hands"- NY Times editorial
Box 2 Folder 17
April 1975
ICED: German-U.S. Study Group on Access to Higher Ed. in U.S. & Germany
Box 2 Folder 18
October 1975
"The International Dimension of Higher Education"-ACE Annual Meeting
Box 2 Folder 19
December 1975
"Autonomy" for the International Encyclopedia
Box 2 Folder 20
September 1976
"Four Axims. . .in Higher Education"- European Center for Higher Education; Bucharest
Box 2 Folder 21
October 1, 1976
Katharine McBride Memorial Service- Bryn Mawr College
Box 2 Folder 22
October 16, 1977
"American College Through Foreign Eyes"- Spelman College
Box 2 Folder 23
November 15, 1977
Carnegie For Advancement of Teaching
Box 2 Folder 24
November 18, 1977
Design and Management of Systems of Higher Education-Paris
Box 2 Folder 25
April 6, 1978
"Problems of Access to Higher Ed."- Report of 2nd IAU Round Table
Box 2 Folder 26
August 1978
The International Movement of Students and Staff- held in Vancouver
Box 2 Folder 27
January 1978
"The Potency of Racism"- Atlantic Monthly editorial
Box 2 Folder 28
1978
"F. Emerson Andrews"- Foundation Center Annual Report
Box 2 Folder 29
February 26, 1979
"The Global Context/The U.S. Role" CHEAR Conference
Box 2 Folder 30
April 16, 1979
"International Scope of American Higher Education"- SUNY Buffalo
Box 2 Folder 31
May 3, 1979
Foreign Policy Association
Box 2 Folder 32
June 13, 1979
"Foreign Policy, Global Ed., and National Interest"- State Dept. Talk
Box 2 Folder 33
June 18, 1979
"Future of Higher Ed. in an Interdependent World" - American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Box 2 Folder 34
August 1, 1979
International Education in a Troubled World- Jefferson, VT
Box 2 Folder 35
October 19, 1979
National Academy of Education
Box 2 Folder 36
December 6, 1979
"The Foreign Grad. Student, the University and Government Policy"- Orlando, Florida
Box 2 Folder 37
1980
Designing Research Projects in the Field of Education
Box 2 Folder 38
February 4, 1980
Designing Research Projects in the Field of Education- Ajijic, Mexico
Box 2 Folder 39
February 11, 1980
Designing Research Programs on the Subject of Access to Higher Education- Ajijic, Mexico
Box 2 Folder 40
March 19, 1980
UN Foreign Language Week Celebration
Box 2 Folder 41
August 26, 1980
"Access to Higher Education" International Association of Universities- Manila
Box 2 Folder 42
December 1980
"Universal Trends in Higher Education..."- Brasilia
Box 2 Folder 43
January 1981
"The International Dr. Perkins"- Exxon Education Foundation Report
Box 2 Folder 44
Spring 1981
"Foreign Language and International Study"- National Forum
Box 2 Folder 45
March 26, 1981
Marymount College Speech
Box 2 Folder 46
April 2-4, 1981
"U.S. Foreign Education Through Foreign Eyes"- Swarthmore College
Box 2 Folder 47
April 9, 1981
"International Dimensions in Higher Ed." - Western College Association in Honolulu
Box 2 Folder 48
April 16, 1981
"National Interest in Foreign Language and International Studies"- University of New Hampshire
Box 2 Folder 49
August 3, 1981
"Educational System of Tomorrow" for Gallup Book
Box 2 Folder 50
October 1981
"Social Studies in Elementary Schools"- Social Education
Box 2 Folder 51
October 1981
James Perkins' Review of Paul Simon's, The Tongue-Tied American in Change
Box 2 Folder 52
December 1981
James Perkins' book review of H. B. Wells' book Being There in The Journal of Higher Education
Box 2 Folder 53
February 5, 1982
Santo Domingo-CAMESA
Box 2 Folder 54
February 10, 1982
Puerto Rico- GULERPE
Box 2 Folder 55
April 6, 1982
Askwith Lecture at Harvard
Box 2 Folder 56
June 1982
"Research and Policy- Making in Higher Education"- Stockholm
Box 2 Folder 57
June 1982
"Future of Swarthmore College"- Swarthmore College
Box 2 Folder 58
November 1983
"The Governance of Higher Education"- Report for Education Department of World Bank
Box 2 Folder 59
February 25, 1985
"Communication and Cooperation for the Development of Education"- AISEI
Box 2 Folder 60
March/April 1985
James Perkins' Review of B. R. Clark's The Higher Education System in The Journal of Higher Education
Box 2 Folder 61
January 23, 1986
European Institute of Education and Social Policy- Paris
Box 2 Folder 62
"From Carnegie to Cornell"
Box 2 Folder 63
Chief State School Officers
Box 2 Folder 64
1948-1984
Articles, various talks
Box 2 Folder 65
1959-1966
"Ideas" for articles and speeches
Box 2 Folder 66
1963-1967
Collected Speeches
Box 2 Folder 67
1967-1969
Collected Speeches
Box 2 Folder 68
1990s
Collected Speeches
Box 2 Folder 69
Unidentified or missing speeches/articles etc.
Box 2 Folder 70
September 17, 1947
"The Economic Future of Europe"- National Petroleum Association in Atlantic City
Box 3 Folder 1
Summer 1951
"Advice to the Eager Neophyte"- reprinted from Public Administration Review
Box 3 Folder 2
November 19, 1951
The Military Services and Their Role in the Making of National Policy
Box 3 Folder 3
June 8, 1958
"Our Expanding Worlds"- Commencement Address for Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
Box 3 Folder 4
National Council of Community Foundations
Box 3 Folder 5
November 26, 1965
"The University Community"- University of Toronto
Box 3 Folder 6
Spring 1966
"The Integrity of the University Community"- Varsity Graduate; University of Toronto
Box 3 Folder 7
December 7, 1966
"Education- -The Year 2000"- National Association of Manufacturers
Box 3 Folder 8
Summer 1967
"The University and the Arts"- Chi Psi Fraternity Bulletin
Box 3 Folder 9
February 15-18, 1967
The Cornell Planning Conference on International Education- Williamsburg, Virginia
Box 3 Folder 10
First Plenary Session: Addresses
Box 3 Folder 11
June 2, 1968
University of Notre Dame Commencement Speech
Box 3 Folder 12
1967-1968
"The University and Due Process"
Box 3 Folder 13
June 15, 1967
"The University as Community"- Commencement speech at SUNY Binghamton
Box 3 Folder 14
University Administration: The Changing Concept of University Autonomy
Box 3 Folder 15
1967-1968
"The University and the New Priorities"- Cornell University Report of the President
Box 3 Folder 16
June 1969
Cornell University Commencement Address
Box 3 Folder 17
February 5, 1969
Vanderbilt University
Box 3 Folder 18
1969-1970
"The Future of the Professional Schools"
Box 3 Folder 19
1969
Commentary on Sanders & Ward's book
Box 3 Folder 20
1968
"The Educational Revolution"
Box 3 Folder 21
1969
"The Crisis of the University"
Box 3 Folder 22
April 1970
"The University and Society"- Bilderberg Conference
Box 3 Folder 23
June 1970
"The Five Crises of the University- The UNESCO Courier
Box 3 Folder 24
1970
"Higher Education in the 1970's"
Box 3 Folder 25
June 1970
"To Participate or Not to Participate"
Box 3 Folder 26
Jan. 26, 1970
Commentary on "Higher Education in Nine Countries" by Barbara Burn
Box 3 Folder 27
"The Arts on Campus: Necessity for Change"
Box 3 Folder 28
1971
Occasional Paper #1
Box 3 Folder 29
1971
Occasional Paper #2
Box 3 Folder 30
1971
"The Drive for Coordination"- Voice of America Forum
Box 3 Folder 31
1971
"The Future of Coordination"- Voice of America Forum
Box 3 Folder 32
1971
"Organization and Functions of the University"
Box 3 Folder 33
1973
"Coordinating Federal State or Institutional Decisions"
Box 3 Folder 34
1977-1978
French articles
Box 3 Folder 35
January 1980
Book Review of Being Lucky by Herman B. Wells for The Journal of Higher Education
Box 3 Folder 36
February 1980
"International Education in a Troubled World"- coauthored with Barbara B. Burn
Box 3 Folder 37
April 1981
Article for Social Education
Box 3 Folder 38
August 8, 1981
Gallup Poll
Box 3 Folder 39
1941
Princeton University
Box 3 Folder 40
1942-1943
Office of Price Administration
Box 3 Folder 41
March 22, 1946 & December 2, 1950
Photographs (Stanford University & Ozone Club)
Box 3 Folder 42
1950-1963
Century Association
Box 3 Folder 43
1962-1963
National Academy for Foreign Affairs
Box 3 Folder 44
1963-1964
New York State Board of Regents Professorships in Humanities & Science
Box 3 Folder 45
1963-1965
Air Force Systems Command
Box 3 Folder 46
1963-1966
National Fund For Medical Education
Box 3 Folder 47
1964
National Scholarship Service and Fund For Negro Students
Box 3 Folder 48
1964
Presidential Advisors on Major International Problems
Box 3 Folder 49
1965
National Institute of Social Sciences
Box 3 Folder 50
1963-1966
Ithaca Regional Planning Board
Box 3 Folder 51
1962-1971
Ithaca Regional Planning Board- publications
Box 3 Folder 52
1965-1969
President's Assistance Programs- President's Advisory Committee
Box 3 Folder 53
1965-1967
Student Freedom Movement & Campus Revolution (not Cornell)- articles and speeches
Box 3 Folder 54
1968
Student Freedom Movement & Campus Revolution (not Cornell)- articles and speeches
Box 3 Folder 55
1968
Student Freedom Movement & Campus Revolution (not Cornell)- articles and speeches
Box 3 Folder 56
1966-1969
President's General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance
Box 3 Folder 57
April 1966
Ideas of Democracy in Transitional Societies- Italy Conference
Box 3 Folder 58
December 1966
National Association of Manufacturer's Congress of American Industry
Box 3 Folder 59
1966-1967
Center for Inter-American Relations
Box 3 Folder 60
1967
Williamsburg Conference held in Virginia
Box 3 Folder 61
March 15, 1967
Johnson Foundation/ Prairie School
Box 3 Folder 62
1967
Near East Emergency Donations
Box 3 Folder 63
1968
Near East Emergency Donations (continued)
Box 3 Folder 64
1968
United Negro College Fund
Box 3 Folder 65
1968
UNESCO- Paris Meeting
Box 3 Folder 66
1969
Center on the University-proposal
Box 3 Folder 67
1969
NET/Channel 13 Merger Study
Box 3 Folder 68
1967-1970
Educational Testing Service
Box 3 Folder 69
1970-1973
National Institute of Social Sciences
Box 3 Folder 70
1970-1975
Chase Manhattan Bank
Box 3 Folder 71
1970
University of Hawaii
Box 4 Folder 1
March 18, 1971
U.S. Senate Hearing on Emergency School Aid
Box 4 Folder 2
1971
South Asian Relief Assistance Advisory Panel
Box 4 Folder 3
June 5, 1972
German Marshall Fund (Howard University)
Box 4 Folder 4
1972
Trilateral Commission & Northeast Consortium for Andean Studies
Box 4 Folder 5
1972-85
Institute of Education- Paris
Box 4 Folder 6
1974?
Foreign Aid and Development Countries
Box 4 Folder 7
1974-1975
International Council for Educational Development
Box 4 Folder 8
1977
Mark Twain Society
Box 4 Folder 9
1978-1979
Presidential Committee on Foreign Language and International Studies
Box 4 Folder 10
1978-1980
IASEI- Mexico
Box 4 Folder 11
1978-1979
Presidental Committee on Foreign Language and International Studies & American Council on Education
Box 4 Folder 12
1979-1980
National Council on Foreign Language and International Studies
Box 4 Folder 13
1982
General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
Box 4 Folder 14
1982
Arms Control and Disarmament Background Papers for Committee
Box 4 Folder 15
1982
Arms Control and Disarmament Background Papers for Committee
Box 4 Folder 16
1981
Higher Education in the United States
Box 4 Folder 17
January 1963
James Perkins' Appointment to Presidency (Cornell)
Box 4 Folder 18
1963-1967
Cornell contract
Box 4 Folder 19
October 4, 1963
James Perkins' Inauguration
Box 4 Folder 20
1963-1969
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (A)
Box 4 Folder 21
1963-1969
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (B)
Box 4 Folder 22
1963-1969
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (C)
Box 4 Folder 23
1963-1969
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (D-O)
Box 4 Folder 24
1963-1969
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (P-R)
Box 4 Folder 25
1963-1969
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (S-Z)
Box 4 Folder 26
1963-1969
Cornell University (miscellaneous materials)
Box 4 Folder 27
1963-1966
Random newspaper clippings (Cornell University)
Box 4 Folder 28
1963-1969
Biology (Cornell University)
Box 4 Folder 29
1965
NY Regents Commission on Educational Leadership
Box 4 Folder 30
January 24, 1964
Cornell Centennial Campaign- Waldorf-Astoria
Box 4 Folder 31
1964-1965
Cornell Commencement Celebrations
Box 4 Folder 32
1964-1965
Report of the President (Cornell University)
Box 4 Folder 33
1965-1966
Report of the President (Cornell University)
Box 4 Folder 34
1967-1968
Report of the President (Cornell University)
Box 4 Folder 35
1965
Cornell Law School
Box 4 Folder 36
June 14, 1965
Cornell Commencement
Box 4 Folder 37
1965-1966
Cornell Latin American Year
Box 4 Folder 38
April 30, 1965
Professors-at-Large (Cornell University)
Box 4 Folder 39
June 13, 1966
Cornell Commencement
Box 4 Folder 40
May 1966
Selective Service on Campus Faculty Petition
Box 4 Folder 41
September 1967
Study of Rising Costs at Ten Universities
Box 4 Folder 42
1967
Proposal for National Commission on Higher Ed. For Negro (Cornell University)
Box 4 Folder 43
March 9, 1968
Cornell Convocation (New York)
Box 4 Folder 44
April 1968
Report of the Special Cornell University Commission of April
Box 4 Folder 45
1969
Statements from Board of Trustees (Cornell University crisis)
Box 4 Folder 46
1969
James Perkins' statements (Cornell University crisis)
Box 4 Folder 47
April-May 1969
Minutes of Faculty Meetings (Cornell University crisis)
Box 4 Folder 48
1969
Executive Staff Chronology (Cornell University crisis)
Box 4 Folder 49
1969
Cornell University News Bureau Chronology
Box 4 Folder 50
1969-1970
Press Clippings (Cornell University crisis)
Box 5 Folder 1
April 1969
Press Clippings (Cornell University crisis)
Box 5 Folder 2
1969
Willard Straight Hall (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 3
1969
James Perkins' personal answers to correspondence (Cornell University crisis)
Box 5 Folder 4
1969
Security, Police Report (Cornell University Crisis)
Box 5 Folder 5
May 26, 1969
President's Commission on Student Involvement in Decision Making- report (Cornell University Crisis)
Box 5 Folder 6
October 1969
Report on Undergraduate Education (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 7
1969
James Perkins' resignation (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 8
1969
Responses to James Perkins' resignation (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 9
1970-1971
General Correspondence (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 10
1970-1980
General Correspondence Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 11
1970-1998
General Correspondence (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 12
1974-1996
General Materials (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 13
1963-1966
Cornell Alumni News
Box 5 Folder 14
African-American Studies/ relations with black students (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 15
Committee on Special Educational Projects (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 16
Social Functions- memorabilia (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 17
Social Functions/ photographs (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 18
1963-1969
List of Trips (Cornell Years)
Box 5 Folder 19
1963-1969
Cornell Trustees
Box 5 Folder 20
May 1972-December 1975
ICED & Ford Foundation
Box 5 Folder 21
December 1975-January 1978
ICED & Ford Foundation
Box 5 Folder 22
1972
ICED- Italy Meeting
Box 5 Folder 23
July 1972
German-American Conference on University & Research Problems- Villa Hugel, Essen
Box 5 Folder 24
1974
ICED- Europe
Box 5 Folder 25
1975
ICED-Access to Higher Education Report
Box 5 Folder 26
July 1975-June 1976
ICED- Annual Report
Box 5 Folder 27
July 1976- June 1977
ICED- Annual Report
Box 5 Folder 28
1973
ICED Seminar- Aspen Institute
Box 5 Folder 29
1974
ICED Seminar- Aspen Institute
Box 5 Folder 30
1975
ICED Seminar-Aspen Institute
Box 5 Folder 31
1976
ICED Seminar- Aspen Institute
Box 5 Folder 32
1978
ICED Financial Report
Box 5 Folder 33
1978
ICED- Letters of thanks for ICED publications
Box 5 Folder 34
International Education
Box 5 Folder 35
February 1967
Williamsburg Conference-Planning Conference
Box 5 Folder 36
1974
Vice-Chancellor's Conference- Ibadan
Box 5 Folder 37
October 31, 1978
Report of the External Advisory Panel on Education to the World Bank
Box 5 Folder 38
February 1982
Analytic Comparison of Educational Systems- Overview of Purposes, Policies, Structures and Outcomes
Box 5 Folder 39
The Consequences of Higher Education (various papers)
Box 5 Folder 40
July 25-29, 1966
Bellagio Conference on Higher Education
Box 5 Folder 41
1976-1979
Council on Foreign Relations Committee on Studies (member 1965-69; 1974-79 and chairman 1976-79)
Box 6 Folder 1
1982
The International Council for Educational Development (miscellaneous papers)
Box 6 Folder 2
Special Letters (i.e. President Lyndon B. Johnson)
Box 6 Folder 3
1943-1972
Personal Letters
Box 6 Folder 4
1981-1985
Travel Reviews
Box 6 Folder 5
1959-1976
Invitations and Menus
Box 6 Folder 6
1966
Newspaper clippings
Box 6 Folder 7
1962-1968
Eric Ashby
Box 6 Folder 8
1966-1968
Stuart M. Brown
Box 6 Folder 9
1984
Maria Gornikiewicz
Box 6 Folder 10
1964
Lyndon B. Johnson
Box 6 Folder 11
1944
Bill Marvel
Box 6 Folder 12
September 1978
Teacher Insurance and Annuity Association of American-College Retirement Equities Fund- Oral History Project
Box 6 Folder 13
May 27, 1968
Carnegie Corporation of New York- Interview No. 2
Box 6 Folder 14
December 16, 1994
Interview with Dr. James Perkins in his office at 20 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ (interviewer was Keith Johnson)
Box 6 Folder 15
June 8, 1958
Centre College, Commencement (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 16
June 13, 1961
Case Institute of Technology, Commencement (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 17
December 13, 1961
University of Akron, Founders Day (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 18
May 11, 1962
Ohio University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 19
June 3, 1963
Brown University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 20
June 5, 1963
Rutgers University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 21
June 10, 1963
Swarthmore College Commencement (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 22
June 7, 1964
Syracuse University Commencement (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 23
June 8, 1964
Lehigh University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 24
June 13, 1964
Northwestern University Commencement (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 25
June 16, 1964
Princeton University Commencement (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 26
June 6, 1965
Rochester University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 27
November 26, 1965
University of Toronto (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 28
February 2, 1966
Long Island University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 29
June 1, 1966
Columbia University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 30
June 5, 1966
Hamilton College (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 31
May 5, 1967
University of Illinois (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 32
May 22, 1967
University of Pennsylvania (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 33
May 25, 1967
State University of New York at Binghamton (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 34
June 2, 1968
University of Notre Dame (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 35
June 10, 1968
Yale University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 36
June 13, 1968
Yeshiva University (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 37
August 21, 1968
University of Sydney (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 38
1971
University of Maine (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 39
February 14, 1974
University of Florida (Honorary Degree)
Box 6 Folder 40
1985
Performing Arts Center (Cornell University)
Box 6 Folder 41
1990-1992
Newspaper articles
Box 6 Folder 42
1992
1992 Events (Cornell University)
Box 6 Folder 43
1992-1994
Cornell Commencement Meeting (Cornell University)
Box 6 Folder 44
1995
Perkins Prize/ Tom Jones Correspondence (Cornell University)
Box 6 Folder 45
1994-1996
Cornell University oral history
Box 6 Folder 46
April 1997
Perkins Prize
Box 6 Folder 47
Important Quotes
Box 6 Folder 48
Important/Amusing articles
Box 6 Folder 49
July 12, 1995
Congressional Record- Senate
Box 6 Folder 50
1964
Defense Advisory Committee on Education in the Armed Forces (Award)
Box 6 Folder 51
1967
National Academy of Public Administration
Box 6 Folder 52
Miscellaneous items
Box 7
Contents include a picture passport, two caps and tassels, a Cornell guest book as well as the numerous honorary degrees, which Perkins received from colleges and universities across the country