Collection on the Women's Council of the State University
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collections contains correspondence, memorandum, fliers, by-laws, programs and other materials pertaining to the CSU Status of Women Commission and the Women’s Council of the State University (WCSU). Materials in this collection focus on the annual conferences hosted by the WCSU, the expansion of the orginization to individual chapters at multiple campuses throughout the California State University (CSU) system, and women’s issues and gender studies within academia.
Dates
- Creation: 1985-1991, undated
Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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Biographical Note
The Status of Women Committee began organzing annual conferences in 1985. The "CSU: Status of Women Conferences and Training Sessions" I-III occurred from 1985 to 1986. From there, the commission evolved into the Women’s Council of the State University (WCSU), continuing their annual conferences and expanding to individual chapters at campuses throughout the California State University (CSU) system. The WCSU worked closely wih the CSU Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program and the Center for Transfer and Reentry. The conferences hosted by the WCSU include: ”Institutionalizing Change for Women in the CSU” conference in 1987, ”Crossing Boundaries: Working Together for Change in the CSU” in 1988, ”Responding to Diversity: Strategies for Success” in 1989, and ”Connections: Healing Division, Affirming Diversity” in 1991.
Extent
4.0 Linear Feet (8 document boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
This collections contains correspondence, memorandum, fliers, by-laws, programs, and other materials regarding the CSU Status of Women Commission and the Women’s Council of the State University (WCSU). Materials span from the "CSU: Status of Women Conferences and Training Sessions" to the formal organization of the WCSU across the California State University (CSU) system. Topical coverage includes the annual conferences hosted by the WCSU, the expansion of the WCSU to individual chapters at multiple campuses throughout the CSU system, and women’s issues and gender studies within academia.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged into six series, chronologically by year. Please note that some boxes contain select folders not ordered chronologically to maintain the original order of the collection.
- Series 1: 1985
- Series 2: 1986
- Series 3: 1987
- Series 4: 1988
- Series 5: 1989
- Series 6: 1990-1991, undated
Acquisition Information
Information unavailable.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Brooke Fenex as part of her archival processing student internship, 2026.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Collection on the Women's Council of the State University
- Author
- Brooke Fenex
- Date
- 2026
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
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Repository Details
Part of the Pfau Library Special Collections Repository
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino CA 92407 United States
909-537-5112
archives@csusb.edu