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Campus Unrest: Collections

Last Updated: Jul 8, 2024 11:55 AM

Collections

The University Archives has many collections containing material related to Campus Unrest at the University at Buffalo.  The viewpoints of students, faculty, staff and administrators are all reflected in collections that include photographs, interviews, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, flyers, posters, artifacts, newspaper clippings, press releases, films and audio recordings.  

The University Archives' Campus Unrest collections are listed below based on the type of material they contain.  Click on the highlighted collection title to see that collection's finding aid.  All of the University Archives' online finding aids can be searched here.  Paper finding aids are available in the University Archives for most collections that are not highlighted.  Brief descriptions of the contents for many of the collections listed below can be found in the University Archives Collections Database by choosing "Campus Unrest" from the Choose a Topic drop down menu.

For assistance with searching for or navigating University Archives online finding aids, please see the Searching tab of this guide, or contact the University Archives at lib-archives@buffalo.edu or (716) 645-2916.

  • 3/5/825: Campus Unrest Clippings, 1964-1975.
  • 3/5/1357: UB Disorders scrapbooks, 1970.
  • 3/9/00-5: The Reporter: the University Archives has print copies of the University at Buffalo newspaper from 1970-2009.  After 2009, the Reporter was published digitally as the Reporter Online, UB Reporter and most recently as UBNow.  Articles published under these titles can be search on the UBNow website.
  • 9/5/00-3: Activist: A newspaper published by the Buffalo Youth Against War and Fascism 1969-1971.
  • 9/9/00-3: The Spectrum: the University Archives has print copies of the University at Buffalo's student newspaper, from 1950-present.  Digitized issues of the Spectrum can be searched by clicking on the following links:

University at Buffalo Campus Unrest

  • A Biography of a Class Study. no.1 (Mar.1965) - no.26 (Nov.1971). LB3605.B5.
  • Faulman, Jane. 1971. 1970 Senior Survey: A Biography of a Class Study.  State University of New York at Buffalo. LB3605.F38.
  • Hoelcle, Larene. 1977. The University Experience: Eight Year Follow Up: 1966 and 1967 Freshmen. State University of New York at Buffalo. LD701.B41k 1970 H63.
  • Meyer, Bethany Jane. 1977. The University Experience: Seven Year Follow Up: 1966 and 1967 Freshmen. State University of New York at Buffalo. LD701.B41k 1970 M49.
  • Ryan, Christine Dulski.  2004.  Administrative Response to Student Activism and Campus Unrest at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1965-1970: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for the Future.  Doctoral dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo. LD701.B42 R92 2004
  • Senior Survey: Biography of a Class Study.  1969-1974. Archives 41/3/00-3.
  • Siggelkow, Richard A. 1991. Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Siege. Buffalo. Prometheus Books. LD701.B42 S54 1991
  • The University Experience Interview Studies. 1966-1967.  Archives 41/3/00-2.
  • Whitcher, Ann.  "A Stormy Spring."   UB Today, Winter 2005, pp14-21. Archives 3/9/00-6.

National and International Campus Unrest Materials