James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1997.
Collection Number: 3-10-3158

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1997.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3-10-3158
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.
Creator:
Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998.
Quanitities:
8.5 cubic feet.
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.

RELATED MATERIALS

See also James A. Perkins Papers, #3-10-1022.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

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

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University. Office of the President

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Speeches, lectures, and addresses
Box 1 Folder 1
Public Administration Review- "Administration of the National Security Program"
1953
Box 1 Folder 2
"Report on Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art"
June 12, 1953
Box 1 Folder 3
Conference on Training in Administration- University of the West Indies
April 1955
Box 1 Folder 4
Mount Allison Summer Institute
August 1955
Box 1 Folder 5
Russian Research Center, Harvard- 10th Anniversary "A Wider Public for Area Studies"
1958
Box 1 Folder 6
Southern Regional Education Board-"National Security and Higher Education"
1958
Box 1 Folder 7
Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni
1958
Box 1 Folder 8
"The Campus-Forgotten Field. . ."- Admin. in the Halls of Ivy Symposium Public Admin. Review
Winter 1960
Box 1 Folder 9
"Power of the Democratic Idea" - The Rockefeller Panel Report
1960
Box 1 Folder 10
"Moral Judgments in Academic Structures" Conference on . . .Democratic Way of Life
1960
Box 1 Folder 11
Commencement Address- Loomis School
June 9, 1961
Box 1 Folder 12
Yale 1935 Class Dinner
March 11, 1959
Box 1 Folder 13
"Private Foundation & Public Interest"- National Council on Community Foundations, Inc.
May 12, 1960
Box 1 Folder 14
Case Inst. of Technology Commencement- "The New Community"
1961
Box 1 Folder 15
University of Akron- "Importance of Graduate Work"
Dec. 13, 1961
Box 1 Folder 16
Ohio University-"The Growing World of the University"
May 1962
Box 1 Folder 17
Report of President's Advisory Panel on National Academy of Foreign Affairs
December 17, 1962
Box 1 Folder 18
Council for Independent School Aid Speech
April 1963
Box 1 Folder 19
Deans in my Life- Tower Club
May 1963
Box 1 Folder 20
Cornell Inauguration Address-"The Future of Cornell"
1963
Box 1 Folder 21
John F. Kennedy Memorial Convocation- Cornell University
November 23, 1963
Box 1 Folder 22
"Education and Freedom of Mind"- Atlantic City-Middle States Conference
December 5, 1963
Box 1 Folder 23
NYU 6th Biennial Conference on Charitable Foundations
1963
Box 1 Folder 24
"What the New Foundation Executive Should Know"
1963
Box 1 Folder 25
Commencement Address- Cornell University
June 15, 1964
Box 1 Folder 26
"Exploding Knowledge and Academic Community"- Brown University Bicentennial
September 28, 1964
Box 1 Folder 27
ACE Annual Convention- "The New Conditions of Autonomy"- San Francisco
1964
Box 1 Folder 28
"The New Venture" and "The Heart of the Matter"- Cornell University
September 1964
Box 1 Folder 29
"Should You Go to College?"- Philadelphia Bulletin Magazine interview
January 24, 1965
Box 1 Folder 30
University of Vienna, 600th Anniversary
April 15, 1965
Box 1 Folder 31
Cornell University Centennial Celebration- NYC, Lincoln Center
1965
Box 1 Folder 32
"Call on Pres. Perkins at Cornell"- Princeton Quarterly
Spring 1965
Box 1 Folder 33
University of Rochester- "Attention Must Be Paid"
June 6, 1965
Box 1 Folder 34
"The Spirit of the University" - Commencement Address for Cornell University
June 14, 1965
Box 1 Folder 35
"Living with Science" - Experimental Science
November 1965
Box 1 Folder 36
The University of the Arts
1963-1965
Box 1 Folder 37
"Should the Artist Come to Campus?"- Saturday Review
July 17, 1965
Box 1 Folder 38
Universities and the Arts
Box 1 Folder 39
Gold Medal Acceptance Speech- National Institute of Social Sciences
December 2, 1965
Box 1 Folder 40
"The State of the University" - Speech to Board of Trustees
October 1965
Box 1 Folder 41
Long Island University 40th Anniversary- "The New Missions of the Private University" NYC
February 1966
Box 1 Folder 42
"The Responsibility of Power" - NY Times editorial
February 1966
Box 1 Folder 43
"Three Missions of a University"- Princeton Alumni Weekly
March 15, 1966
Box 1 Folder 44
"Role of the Univ. in State's Future"- Agricultural Leader's Forum
March 24, 1966
Box 1 Folder 45
"Challenge & Response in Foreign Aid"- NY Times editorial
March 28, 1966
Box 1 Folder 46
"The Scholar-Modern Style"- Hamilton College Commencement
June 5, 1966
Box 1 Folder 47
"The Etiquette of University Debate"- Cornell Commencement
June 13, 1966
Box 1 Folder 48
"The University or the Transistor"- NY Times article
June 1966
Box 1 Folder 49
"Foreign Aid and the Brain Drain"- Foreign Affairs
July 1966
Box 1 Folder 50
"Strategie Planificatrice"- Symposium de Delos
July 1966
Box 1 Folder 51
"Education and the State"- Board of Regents NY state 92nd Convocation held in Albany, NY
September 21, 1966
Box 1 Folder 52
Japan International Christian University Foundation (Women's Planning Committee)- New York City
October 21, 1966
Box 1 Folder 53
"The Price of Choice"- College Entrance Examination Board
October 25, 1966
Box 1 Folder 54
"Business and Education"
November 16, 1966
Box 1 Folder 55
"Chief School Officers"- Report of NY State Regents Advisory Committee on Educational Leadership
December 1966
Box 1 Folder 56
Reviews of James Perkins', The University in Transition
1966-1967
Box 1 Folder 57
"Liberal Learning and the Learning Community"- Association of American Colleges Meeting
January 17, 1967
Box 1 Folder 58
"On Ideals and Experience"- University of Illinois Honors Day Convocation
May 1967
Box 1 Folder 59
"College and University Presidents"- NY State Regents Advisory1 Committee on Educational Leadership
May 1967
Box 1 Folder 60
Commencement Address- Cornell University
June 12, 1967
Box 1 Folder 61
"The Disquiet Americans & Local Wars"- NY Times editorial
July 1, 1967
Box 1 Folder 62
Convocation Address- Hampton Institute
September 28, 1967
Box 1 Folder 63
Addresses & Summary Report- International Conference on World Crisis in Education held in Williamsburg, VA
October 5-9, 1967
Box 1 Folder 64
New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools- Boston, Mass.
December 8, 1967
Box 1 Folder 65
"The Restless Decade"- Cornell University Convocation held in NYC
March 1968
Box 1 Folder 66
"The Restless Student"- Bilderberg Conference & YWCA luncheon
April 27 &amp, October 16, 1968
Box 1 Folder 67
President's General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs
October 1968
Box 1 Folder 68
"The Restless Student"- Reprint from Minerva
1968
Box 1 Folder 69
"Cornell's Second Century"
May 9, 1968
Box 1 Folder 70
"The University's Role in Higher Education Systems"- 10th Congress of Commonwealth Universities held in Australia
August 1968
Box 1 Folder 71
"The University and the New Priorities-National Industrial Conference Board held in New York City
November 1968
Box 2 Folder 1
"The New Environment"- Notre Dame University
June 2, 1968
Box 2 Folder 2
"The Moral Imperative"
January 1969
Box 2 Folder 3
"The Black in the White University"- United Negro College Fund- Washington D.C.
1968
Box 2 Folder 4
"The Integrity of the University"- Cornell Daily Sun
February 5, 1969
Box 2 Folder 5
Draft of UCLA speech (not delivered)
April 16, 1969
Box 2 Folder 6
Tower Club Paper- Annual Meeting of Tower Club of Cornell University
May 1969
Box 2 Folder 7
"The Future of the Professional Schools"- American Society for Engineering Education- Forth Distinguished Lecture held at Penn State
June 25, 1969
Box 2 Folder 8
"Overloading the Private Sector"- NY Times editorial
October 4, 1969
Box 2 Folder 9
"The University and Society"-UNESCO Symposium
February 1970
Box 2 Folder 10
"University as Part of Larger Society"-draft
Box 2 Folder 11
"Can University Governance be More Democratic?"- University of Hawaii; later reprinted in Higher Education For All
January 1970
Box 2 Folder 12
Connecticut Council for Higher Education
October 24, 1973
Box 2 Folder 13
University of Wisconsin
January 24, 1974
Box 2 Folder 14
"Graduate Education, International Studies and National Interest"- University of Florida
February 1974
Box 2 Folder 15
Buffalo Council on World Affairs
April 1974
Box 2 Folder 16
"The University-Old Ghosts and New"-DAEDALUS
Fall 1974
Box 2 Folder 17
"Look, Ma, No Hands"- NY Times editorial
January 1975
Box 2 Folder 18
ICED: German-U.S. Study Group on Access to Higher Ed. in U.S. & Germany
April 1975
Box 2 Folder 19
"The International Dimension of Higher Education"-ACE Annual Meeting
October 1975
Box 2 Folder 20
"Autonomy" for the International Encyclopedia
December 1975
Box 2 Folder 21
"Four Axims. . .in Higher Education"- European Center for Higher Education; Bucharest
September 1976
Box 2 Folder 22
Katharine McBride Memorial Service- Bryn Mawr College
October 1, 1976
Box 2 Folder 23
"American College Through Foreign Eyes"- Spelman College
October 16, 1977
Box 2 Folder 24
Carnegie For Advancement of Teaching
November 15, 1977
Box 2 Folder 25
Design and Management of Systems of Higher Education-Paris
November 18, 1977
Box 2 Folder 26
"Problems of Access to Higher Ed."- Report of 2nd IAU Round Table
April 6, 1978
Box 2 Folder 27
The International Movement of Students and Staff- held in Vancouver
August 1978
Box 2 Folder 28
"The Potency of Racism"- Atlantic Monthly editorial
January 1978
Box 2 Folder 29
"F. Emerson Andrews"- Foundation Center Annual Report
1978
Box 2 Folder 30
"The Global Context/The U.S. Role" CHEAR Conference
February 26, 1979
Box 2 Folder 31
"International Scope of American Higher Education"- SUNY Buffalo
April 16, 1979
Box 2 Folder 32
Foreign Policy Association
May 3, 1979
Box 2 Folder 33
"Foreign Policy, Global Ed., and National Interest"- State Dept. Talk
June 13, 1979
Box 2 Folder 34
"Future of Higher Ed. in an Interdependent World" - American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
June 18, 1979
Box 2 Folder 35
International Education in a Troubled World- Jefferson, VT
August 1, 1979
Box 2 Folder 36
National Academy of Education
October 19, 1979
Box 2 Folder 37
"The Foreign Grad. Student, the University and Government Policy"- Orlando, Florida
December 6, 1979
Box 2 Folder 38
Designing Research Projects in the Field of Education
1980
Box 2 Folder 39
Designing Research Projects in the Field of Education- Ajijic, Mexico
February 4, 1980
Box 2 Folder 40
Designing Research Programs on the Subject of Access to Higher Education- Ajijic, Mexico
February 11, 1980
Box 2 Folder 41
UN Foreign Language Week Celebration
March 19, 1980
Box 2 Folder 42
"Access to Higher Education" International Association of Universities- Manila
August 26, 1980
Box 2 Folder 43
"Universal Trends in Higher Education..."- Brasilia
December 1980
Box 2 Folder 44
"The International Dr. Perkins"- Exxon Education Foundation Report
January 1981
Box 2 Folder 45
"Foreign Language and International Study"- National Forum
Spring 1981
Box 2 Folder 46
Marymount College Speech
March 26, 1981
Box 2 Folder 47
"U.S. Foreign Education Through Foreign Eyes"- Swarthmore College
April 2-4, 1981
Box 2 Folder 48
"International Dimensions in Higher Ed." - Western College Association in Honolulu
April 9, 1981
Box 2 Folder 49
"National Interest in Foreign Language and International Studies"- University of New Hampshire
April 16, 1981
Box 2 Folder 50
"Educational System of Tomorrow" for Gallup Book
August 3, 1981
Box 2 Folder 51
"Social Studies in Elementary Schools"- Social Education
October 1981
Box 2 Folder 52
James Perkins' Review of Paul Simon's, The Tongue-Tied American in Change
October 1981
Box 2 Folder 53
James Perkins' book review of H. B. Wells' book Being There in The Journal of Higher Education
December 1981
Box 2 Folder 54
Santo Domingo-CAMESA
February 5, 1982
Box 2 Folder 55
Puerto Rico- GULERPE
February 10, 1982
Box 2 Folder 56
Askwith Lecture at Harvard
April 6, 1982
Box 2 Folder 57
"Research and Policy- Making in Higher Education"- Stockholm
June 1982
Box 2 Folder 58
"Future of Swarthmore College"- Swarthmore College
June 1982
Box 2 Folder 59
"The Governance of Higher Education"- Report for Education Department of World Bank
November 1983
Box 2 Folder 60
"Communication and Cooperation for the Development of Education"- AISEI
February 25, 1985
Box 2 Folder 61
James Perkins' Review of B. R. Clark's The Higher Education System in The Journal of Higher Education
March/April 1985
Box 2 Folder 62
European Institute of Education and Social Policy- Paris
January 23, 1986
Box 2 Folder 63
"From Carnegie to Cornell"
Box 2 Folder 64
Chief State School Officers
Box 2 Folder 65
Articles, various talks
1948-1984
Box 2 Folder 66
"Ideas" for articles and speeches
1959-1966
Box 2 Folder 67
Collected Speeches
1963-1967
Box 2 Folder 68
Collected Speeches
1967-1969
Box 2 Folder 69
Collected Speeches
1990s
Box 2 Folder 70
Unidentified or missing speeches/articles etc.
Series II. Articles
Box 3 Folder 1
"The Economic Future of Europe"- National Petroleum Association in Atlantic City
September 17, 1947
Box 3 Folder 2
"Advice to the Eager Neophyte"- reprinted from Public Administration Review
Summer 1951
Box 3 Folder 3
The Military Services and Their Role in the Making of National Policy
November 19, 1951
Box 3 Folder 4
"Our Expanding Worlds"- Commencement Address for Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
June 8, 1958
Box 3 Folder 5
National Council of Community Foundations
Box 3 Folder 6
"The University Community"- University of Toronto
November 26, 1965
Box 3 Folder 7
"The Integrity of the University Community"- Varsity Graduate; University of Toronto
Spring 1966
Box 3 Folder 8
"Education- -The Year 2000"- National Association of Manufacturers
December 7, 1966
Box 3 Folder 9
"The University and the Arts"- Chi Psi Fraternity Bulletin
Summer 1967
Box 3 Folder 10
The Cornell Planning Conference on International Education- Williamsburg, Virginia
February 15-18, 1967
Box 3 Folder 11
First Plenary Session: Addresses
Box 3 Folder 12
University of Notre Dame Commencement Speech
June 2, 1968
Box 3 Folder 13
"The University and Due Process"
1967-1968
Box 3 Folder 14
"The University as Community"- Commencement speech at SUNY Binghamton
June 15, 1967
Box 3 Folder 15
University Administration: The Changing Concept of University Autonomy
Box 3 Folder 16
"The University and the New Priorities"- Cornell University Report of the President
1967-1968
Box 3 Folder 17
Cornell University Commencement Address
June 1969
Box 3 Folder 18
Vanderbilt University
February 5, 1969
Box 3 Folder 19
"The Future of the Professional Schools"
1969-1970
Box 3 Folder 20
Commentary on Sanders & Ward's book
1969
Box 3 Folder 21
"The Educational Revolution"
1968
Box 3 Folder 22
"The Crisis of the University"
1969
Box 3 Folder 23
"The University and Society"- Bilderberg Conference
April 1970
Box 3 Folder 24
"The Five Crises of the University- The UNESCO Courier
June 1970
Box 3 Folder 25
"Higher Education in the 1970's"
1970
Box 3 Folder 26
"To Participate or Not to Participate"
June 1970
Box 3 Folder 27
Commentary on "Higher Education in Nine Countries" by Barbara Burn
Jan. 26, 1970
Box 3 Folder 28
"The Arts on Campus: Necessity for Change"
Box 3 Folder 29
Occasional Paper #1
1971
Box 3 Folder 30
Occasional Paper #2
1971
Box 3 Folder 31
"The Drive for Coordination"- Voice of America Forum
1971
Box 3 Folder 32
"The Future of Coordination"- Voice of America Forum
1971
Box 3 Folder 33
"Organization and Functions of the University"
1971
Box 3 Folder 34
"Coordinating Federal State or Institutional Decisions"
1973
Box 3 Folder 35
French articles
1977-1978
Box 3 Folder 36
Book Review of Being Lucky by Herman B. Wells for The Journal of Higher Education
January 1980
Box 3 Folder 37
"International Education in a Troubled World"- coauthored with Barbara B. Burn
February 1980
Box 3 Folder 38
Article for Social Education
April 1981
Box 3 Folder 39
Gallup Poll
August 8, 1981
Box 3 Folder 40
Princeton University
1941
Box 3 Folder 41
Office of Price Administration
1942-1943
Box 3 Folder 42
Photographs (Stanford University & Ozone Club)
March 22, 1946 &amp, December 2, 1950
Box 3 Folder 43
Century Association
1950-1963
Box 3 Folder 44
National Academy for Foreign Affairs
1962-1963
Box 3 Folder 45
New York State Board of Regents Professorships in Humanities & Science
1963-1964
Box 3 Folder 46
Air Force Systems Command
1963-1965
Box 3 Folder 47
National Fund For Medical Education
1963-1966
Box 3 Folder 48
National Scholarship Service and Fund For Negro Students
1964
Box 3 Folder 49
Presidential Advisors on Major International Problems
1964
Box 3 Folder 50
National Institute of Social Sciences
1965
Box 3 Folder 51
Ithaca Regional Planning Board
1963-1966
Box 3 Folder 52
Ithaca Regional Planning Board- publications
1962-1971
Box 3 Folder 53
President's Assistance Programs- President's Advisory Committee
1965-1969
Box 3 Folder 54
Student Freedom Movement & Campus Revolution (not Cornell)- articles and speeches
1965-1967
Box 3 Folder 55
Student Freedom Movement & Campus Revolution (not Cornell)- articles and speeches
1968
Box 3 Folder 56
Student Freedom Movement & Campus Revolution (not Cornell)- articles and speeches
1968
Box 3 Folder 57
President's General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance
1966-1969
Box 3 Folder 58
Ideas of Democracy in Transitional Societies- Italy Conference
April 1966
Box 3 Folder 59
National Association of Manufacturer's Congress of American Industry
December 1966
Box 3 Folder 60
Center for Inter-American Relations
1966-1967
Box 3 Folder 61
Williamsburg Conference held in Virginia
1967
Box 3 Folder 62
Johnson Foundation/ Prairie School
March 15, 1967
Box 3 Folder 63
Near East Emergency Donations
1967
Box 3 Folder 64
Near East Emergency Donations (continued)
1968
Box 3 Folder 65
United Negro College Fund
1968
Box 3 Folder 66
UNESCO- Paris Meeting
1968
Box 3 Folder 67
Center on the University-proposal
1969
Box 3 Folder 68
NET/Channel 13 Merger Study
1969
Box 3 Folder 69
Educational Testing Service
1967-1970
Box 3 Folder 70
National Institute of Social Sciences
1970-1973
Box 3 Folder 71
Chase Manhattan Bank
1970-1975
Box 4 Folder 1
University of Hawaii
1970
Box 4 Folder 2
U.S. Senate Hearing on Emergency School Aid
March 18, 1971
Box 4 Folder 3
South Asian Relief Assistance Advisory Panel
1971
Box 4 Folder 4
German Marshall Fund (Howard University)
June 5, 1972
Box 4 Folder 5
Trilateral Commission & Northeast Consortium for Andean Studies
1972
Box 4 Folder 6
Institute of Education- Paris
1972-85
Box 4 Folder 7
Foreign Aid and Development Countries
1974?
Box 4 Folder 8
International Council for Educational Development
1974-1975
Box 4 Folder 9
Mark Twain Society
1977
Box 4 Folder 10
Presidential Committee on Foreign Language and International Studies
1978-1979
Box 4 Folder 11
IASEI- Mexico
1978-1980
Box 4 Folder 12
Presidental Committee on Foreign Language and International Studies & American Council on Education
1978-1979
Box 4 Folder 13
National Council on Foreign Language and International Studies
1979-1980
Box 4 Folder 14
General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
1982
Box 4 Folder 15
Arms Control and Disarmament Background Papers for Committee
1982
Box 4 Folder 16
Arms Control and Disarmament Background Papers for Committee
1982
Box 4 Folder 17
Higher Education in the United States
1981
Box 4 Folder 18
James Perkins' Appointment to Presidency (Cornell)
January 1963
Series III. Cornell Presidency
Box 4 Folder 19
Cornell contract
1963-1967
Box 4 Folder 20
James Perkins' Inauguration
October 4, 1963
Box 4 Folder 21
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (A)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 22
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (B)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 23
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (C)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 24
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (D-O)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 25
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (P-R)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 26
Cornell Miscellaneous Correspondence (S-Z)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 27
Cornell University (miscellaneous materials)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 28
Random newspaper clippings (Cornell University)
1963-1966
Box 4 Folder 29
Biology (Cornell University)
1963-1969
Box 4 Folder 30
NY Regents Commission on Educational Leadership
1965
Box 4 Folder 31
Cornell Centennial Campaign- Waldorf-Astoria
January 24, 1964
Box 4 Folder 32
Cornell Commencement Celebrations
1964-1965
Box 4 Folder 33
Report of the President (Cornell University)
1964-1965
Box 4 Folder 34
Report of the President (Cornell University)
1965-1966
Box 4 Folder 35
Report of the President (Cornell University)
1967-1968
Box 4 Folder 36
Cornell Law School
1965
Box 4 Folder 37
Cornell Commencement
June 14, 1965
Box 4 Folder 38
Cornell Latin American Year
1965-1966
Box 4 Folder 39
Professors-at-Large (Cornell University)
April 30, 1965
Box 4 Folder 40
Cornell Commencement
June 13, 1966
Box 4 Folder 41
Selective Service on Campus Faculty Petition
May 1966
Box 4 Folder 42
Study of Rising Costs at Ten Universities
September 1967
Box 4 Folder 43
Proposal for National Commission on Higher Ed. For Negro (Cornell University)
1967
Box 4 Folder 44
Cornell Convocation (New York)
March 9, 1968
Box 4 Folder 45
Report of the Special Cornell University Commission of April
April 1968
Box 4 Folder 46
Statements from Board of Trustees (Cornell University crisis)
1969
Box 4 Folder 47
James Perkins' statements (Cornell University crisis)
1969
Box 4 Folder 48
Minutes of Faculty Meetings (Cornell University crisis)
April-May 1969
Box 4 Folder 49
Executive Staff Chronology (Cornell University crisis)
1969
Box 4 Folder 50
Cornell University News Bureau Chronology
1969
Box 5 Folder 1
Press Clippings (Cornell University crisis)
1969-1970
Box 5 Folder 2
Press Clippings (Cornell University crisis)
April 1969
Box 5 Folder 3
Willard Straight Hall (Cornell University)
1969
Box 5 Folder 4
James Perkins' personal answers to correspondence (Cornell University crisis)
1969
Box 5 Folder 5
Security, Police Report (Cornell University Crisis)
1969
Box 5 Folder 6
President's Commission on Student Involvement in Decision Making- report (Cornell University Crisis)
May 26, 1969
Box 5 Folder 7
Report on Undergraduate Education (Cornell University)
October 1969
Box 5 Folder 8
James Perkins' resignation (Cornell University)
1969
Box 5 Folder 9
Responses to James Perkins' resignation (Cornell University)
1969
Box 5 Folder 10
General Correspondence (Cornell University)
1970-1971
Box 5 Folder 11
General Correspondence Cornell University)
1970-1980
Box 5 Folder 12
General Correspondence (Cornell University)
1970-1998
Box 5 Folder 13
General Materials (Cornell University)
1974-1996
Box 5 Folder 14
Cornell Alumni News
1963-1966
Box 5 Folder 15
African-American Studies/ relations with black students (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 16
Committee on Special Educational Projects (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 17
Social Functions- memorabilia (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 18
Social Functions/ photographs (Cornell University)
Box 5 Folder 19
List of Trips (Cornell Years)
1963-1969
Box 5 Folder 20
Cornell Trustees
1963-1969
Series IV. International Council for Educational Development
Box 5 Folder 21
ICED & Ford Foundation
May 1972-December 1975
Box 5 Folder 22
ICED & Ford Foundation
December 1975-January 1978
Box 5 Folder 23
ICED- Italy Meeting
1972
Box 5 Folder 24
German-American Conference on University & Research Problems- Villa Hugel, Essen
July 1972
Box 5 Folder 25
ICED- Europe
1974
Box 5 Folder 26
ICED-Access to Higher Education Report
1975
Box 5 Folder 27
ICED- Annual Report
July 1975-June 1976
Box 5 Folder 28
ICED- Annual Report
July 1976- June 1977
Box 5 Folder 29
ICED Seminar- Aspen Institute
1973
Box 5 Folder 30
ICED Seminar- Aspen Institute
1974
Box 5 Folder 31
ICED Seminar-Aspen Institute
1975
Box 5 Folder 32
ICED Seminar- Aspen Institute
1976
Box 5 Folder 33
ICED Financial Report
1978
Box 5 Folder 34
ICED- Letters of thanks for ICED publications
1978
Box 5 Folder 35
International Education
Box 5 Folder 36
Williamsburg Conference-Planning Conference
February 1967
Box 5 Folder 37
Vice-Chancellor's Conference- Ibadan
1974
Box 5 Folder 38
Report of the External Advisory Panel on Education to the World Bank
October 31, 1978
Box 5 Folder 39
Analytic Comparison of Educational Systems- Overview of Purposes, Policies, Structures and Outcomes
February 1982
Box 5 Folder 40
The Consequences of Higher Education (various papers)
Box 5 Folder 41
Bellagio Conference on Higher Education
July 25-29, 1966
Box 6 Folder 1
Council on Foreign Relations Committee on Studies (member 1965-69; 1974-79 and chairman 1976-79)
1976-1979
Box 6 Folder 2
The International Council for Educational Development (miscellaneous papers)
1982
Series V. Miscellaneous personal papers (Letters, invitations, interviews, honorary degrees, clippings)
Box 6 Folder 3
Special Letters (i.e. President Lyndon B. Johnson)
Box 6 Folder 4
Personal Letters
1943-1972
Box 6 Folder 5
Travel Reviews
1981-1985
Box 6 Folder 6
Invitations and Menus
1959-1976
Box 6 Folder 7
Newspaper clippings
1966
Box 6 Folder 8
Eric Ashby
1962-1968
Box 6 Folder 9
Stuart M. Brown
1966-1968
Box 6 Folder 10
Maria Gornikiewicz
1984
Box 6 Folder 11
Lyndon B. Johnson
1964
Box 6 Folder 12
Bill Marvel
1944
Box 6 Folder 13
Teacher Insurance and Annuity Association of American-College Retirement Equities Fund- Oral History Project
September 1978
Box 6 Folder 14
Carnegie Corporation of New York- Interview No. 2
May 27, 1968
Box 6 Folder 15
Interview with Dr. James Perkins in his office at 20 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ (interviewer was Keith Johnson)
December 16, 1994
Existence and Location of Copies
The original audio tapes and copies of the transcripts are available in collection #47-8-2795.
Box 6 Folder 16
Centre College, Commencement (Honorary Degree)
June 8, 1958
Box 6 Folder 17
Case Institute of Technology, Commencement (Honorary Degree)
June 13, 1961
Box 6 Folder 18
University of Akron, Founders Day (Honorary Degree)
December 13, 1961
Box 6 Folder 19
Ohio University (Honorary Degree)
May 11, 1962
Box 6 Folder 20
Brown University (Honorary Degree)
June 3, 1963
Box 6 Folder 21
Rutgers University (Honorary Degree)
June 5, 1963
Box 6 Folder 22
Swarthmore College Commencement (Honorary Degree)
June 10, 1963
Box 6 Folder 23
Syracuse University Commencement (Honorary Degree)
June 7, 1964
Box 6 Folder 24
Lehigh University (Honorary Degree)
June 8, 1964
Box 6 Folder 25
Northwestern University Commencement (Honorary Degree)
June 13, 1964
Box 6 Folder 26
Princeton University Commencement (Honorary Degree)
June 16, 1964
Box 6 Folder 27
Rochester University (Honorary Degree)
June 6, 1965
Box 6 Folder 28
University of Toronto (Honorary Degree)
November 26, 1965
Box 6 Folder 29
Long Island University (Honorary Degree)
February 2, 1966
Box 6 Folder 30
Columbia University (Honorary Degree)
June 1, 1966
Box 6 Folder 31
Hamilton College (Honorary Degree)
June 5, 1966
Box 6 Folder 32
University of Illinois (Honorary Degree)
May 5, 1967
Box 6 Folder 33
University of Pennsylvania (Honorary Degree)
May 22, 1967
Box 6 Folder 34
State University of New York at Binghamton (Honorary Degree)
May 25, 1967
Box 6 Folder 35
University of Notre Dame (Honorary Degree)
June 2, 1968
Box 6 Folder 36
Yale University (Honorary Degree)
June 10, 1968
Box 6 Folder 37
Yeshiva University (Honorary Degree)
June 13, 1968
Box 6 Folder 38
University of Sydney (Honorary Degree)
August 21, 1968
Box 6 Folder 39
University of Maine (Honorary Degree)
1971
Box 6 Folder 40
University of Florida (Honorary Degree)
February 14, 1974
Box 6 Folder 41
Performing Arts Center (Cornell University)
1985
Box 6 Folder 42
Newspaper articles
1990-1992
Box 6 Folder 43
1992 Events (Cornell University)
1992
Box 6 Folder 44
Cornell Commencement Meeting (Cornell University)
1992-1994
Box 6 Folder 45
Perkins Prize/ Tom Jones Correspondence (Cornell University)
1995
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of a 1978 letter sent to Perkins from President of Oberlin College Robert Fuller about increasing enrollment of black students, Perkins had forwarded this letter in 1995 to Robert Miller.
Box 6 Folder 46
Cornell University oral history
1994-1996
Box 6 Folder 47
Perkins Prize
April 1997
Box 6 Folder 48
Important Quotes
Box 6 Folder 49
Important/Amusing articles
Box 6 Folder 50
Congressional Record- Senate
July 12, 1995
Box 6 Folder 51
Defense Advisory Committee on Education in the Armed Forces (Award)
1964
Box 6 Folder 52
National Academy of Public Administration
1967
Box 7
Miscellaneous items
Scope and Contents
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
Mapcase Folder 1
Certificates and diplomas