Office of the President Jill Ker Conway Files, 1974-1985 : Other Descriptive Information

Subject Guide

Note

The Subject Guide is meant as a supplement to information provided in the Series Descriptions and Folder Listing, and is in no way intended as a comprehensive listing of significant subject matter in the collection.

Computers

-General
- Series IV. Administrative Issues
  - -Telecommunications
- Series V. Administrative Offices
  - -Academic Computer Center
  - -Administrative Information Systems
- Series IX. Committees & Boards
- Series XV. Non-Smith Organizations
  - -IBM
  - -New England Regional Computer Program [NERCOMP]
-E-mail
- Series XV. Non-Smith Organizations
  - -COFHE (The first use of email in the president's office may have been in 1983, in a "receive-only" program via Stanford for COFHE.)

Gender

-General
- Series VIII. Colleges & Universities
  - -Mt. Holyoke-Smith-Mt. Holyoke Institute for Research on Women's Experience and Public Policy
- Series IX. Committees & Boards
- Series XII. Faculty & Staff
  - -Faculty Women-Equal Opportunity Employment
- Series XIV. Intercollegiate Associations
  - -Seven Sisters-Seven College Research Project on Careers of Women Scholars
-Special Projects Funding-Women & Social Change Project
- Series V. Administrative Offices-Development-Foundations
-Special Projects Funding-Miscellaneous
- Series V. Administrative Offices
  - -Development-Foundations-Ford Foundation, re: funding for research on the career of women scholars
  - -Development-Foundations-Educational Foundation of America, re: the Kilbourne Sex Role Stereotypes Project
  - -Development-Foundations-Educational Foundation of America and the Hewlett Foundation, re: Teen Sex and Pregnancy Research
-Women's Education-General
- Series V. Administrative Offices
  - -Admissions-Bassin Project to Improve Admissions
  - -Development-Foundations-Rockefeller Fdn (1980-1983), re: research funding on single-sex colleges and equal protection laws
- Series VIII. Colleges & Universities
  - -Amherst College
  - -Brown University
- Series XIV. Intercollegiate Associations
  - -Seven Sisters
  - -Women's College Coalition
-Women's Education-Special Projects Funding
- -Ada Comstock Scholars
  - Series V. Administrative Offices-Development-Corporations
    - -Carnegie Corporation
    - -Chesebrough-Pond's
    - -Connecticut Bank and Trust
    - -Connecticut General Life
    - -Connecticut Mutual Life
    - -Conoco, Inc.
    - -Continental Group
    - -Covenant Life Insurance
    - -Dart Industries, Inc.
    - -Delaware North Companies, Inc.
    - -Hublein, Inc.
    - -IBM
    - -Kollmorgen Corporation
    - -Kraft, Inc.
  - Series V. Administrative Offices-Development-Foundations
- -Smith Management Program
  - Series V. Administrative Offices-Development-Corporations
    - -Chemical Bank
    - -Connecticut Bank and Trust
    - -Dart Industries, Inc.
    - -General Telephone and Electronics
    - -Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
  - Series V. Administrative Offices-Development-Foundations

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Series XI. Events
- -President's House Events, for a dinner invitation to Iranian students, 14 Nov 1979

Lesbianism

Series II. Academic Departments
- -Sociology & Anthropology, April 26, 1976 memo re student project
Series III. Academic Programs
- -Junior Year Abroad-Geneva, September 8, 1983 memo and attached report
Series V. Administrative Offices
- -Admissions-Bassin Project to Improve Admissions
- -Dean of the College-General, for correspondence regarding Sessions House, October 7, 1982
- -Dean of the College-Associate Dean for Student Affairs, for correspondence regarding Lamont House (28 Nov 1979), as well as Sessions, Parsons and other related incidents (Oct-Feb 1983).
- -Personnel-Unions, for 21 Jun 1983 memo re: non-discriminatory hiring policies
- -Public Relations, for response to May 1981 Boston Globe article
Series VI. Alumnae
- -Alumnae Association-Alumnae Council (1982-1983)
- -Smith Alumnae for Alternatives
Series IX. Committees & Boards
- -Student Affairs, Committee on, for minutes of 15 Feb 1977 meeting.
Series XVI. Speeches
- -Smith Alumnae Council (14 Oct 1982)

Race

-General
- Series VIII. Colleges & Universities
  - -Amherst College (April 1979)
- Series IX. Committees & Boards
  - -Afro-American Studies Advisory Committee
  - -Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty, Ad-hoc Ctte to Study
- Series XII. Faculty & Staff
  - -Black Faculty and Administrators
  - -Fellowships-Mendenhall Fellowships
- Series XIV. Intercollegiate Associations
  - -Five Colleges-Racism
  - -Society Organized Against Racism
- Series XV. Non-Smith Organizations
  - -Consortium on Financing Higher Education (1979-1980) for info re: 1979 conference on minorities on campus
-South Africa and South African Students:
- Series IV. Administrative Issues
  - -South Africa
- Series V. Administrative Offices
  - -Development-Corporations-Carnegie Corporation (1979)
- Series XIV. Intercollegiate Associations
  - -Five Colleges-South Africa
- Series XV. Non-Smith Organizations-Institute of International Education
-Students of Color
- Series III. Academic Programs
  - -Bridge Program
  - -Intermediate School 201 (I.S. 201)
- Series V. Administrative Offices
- Series XIV. Intercollegiate Associations
  - -Seven Sisters-Seven College Study-"Racial Comparisons for All Women in the Classes of 1981 and 1984"
- Series XVII. Students

Rape

Series V. Administrative Offices
- -Dean of the College, for information on rape awareness workshops and security measures

Records Management

Series IV. Administrative Issues
- -Administrative Structure (1976)
Series IX. Committees & Boards
- -Communications & Record-Keeping Study Group