STUDENT LIFE: STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

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In an effort to preserve and maintain its history, Yale University seeks to retain certain documentation concerning student organizations at Yale.  Specific topics of interest include:

• History and development of Yale student organizations;
   
• Missions and policies of student organizations;
   
• Significant programs, activities, and events of student organizations;
   
• Positions and actions of student governments and councils;
   
• Organized student activism; and
   
• Student involvement in service activities.
   

Archival records (Permanent records should be transferred to the Archives.  Please arrange timing and frequency of records transfer with Archives staff.) Annual reports of student organizations   Correspondence of student organizations that documents programs, activities, and events   Constitutions and bylaws of student organizations   Meeting minutes and supporting documentation from student organizations or concerning student organizations   Membership rosters of student organizations   Photographs, clippings, press releases, and scrapbooks documenting the activities of student organizations   Publications from student organizations (2 copies)   Topical files and correspondence of the Yale College Dean of Student Affairs

Office of record Student organizations, the Office of Student Affairs, Yale College Dean's Office, and the Graduate and Professional Student Center maintain the record copy of documentation concerning student organizations.  Individual units that are not responsible for the creation of such records, but that maintain duplicates of such works or related materials, should destroy these files after they are no longer needed.