Board of Trustees Meeting Audio Recordings

This collection consists of unedited audio recordings of The California State University Board of Trustees and Board of Trustee Committees meetings from 1963 to 1973, and 1975 to 1978. Identification of meetings were generated from individual box labels of reels, cassettes, and video tapes which included name, date, and generally the part (as in part 1 or part 2) of a recorded meeting. The following are the standing meeting groups of the Board of Trustees represented in the collection: Board of Trustees full meetings, Board of Trustees joint meetings, Committee on Academic Policy, Committee on Campus Planning, Buildings, and Grounds, Committee on Educational Policy, Committee on Gifts and Public Affairs, Committee on Faculty and Staff Affairs, Committee on Finance, and Committee on Organization and Rules.

Other single instance to short-term meetings captured in this collection include the Chancellor's Council of State College Presidents, Faculty Representative meetings with the Board, Student Master Curricular Plan meeting with the Committee on Educational Policy (April 19, 1965), Board of Trustees Committee on Faculty and Staff Affairs acting for the Committee on Salaries (July 7, 1966), Special Committee on Constitutional Revision meeting (March 23, 1967), Board of Trustees emergency meeting (November 18, 1968), Educational Policy meeting with student attendeeds against proposed policy and informal public hearing (July 8, 1969), Board of Trustees budget meeting (October 15, 1969), Sister Anita Women's Conference, Montecito (July 15, 1968), Board of Trustees plenary session special meeting (December 14, 1978), Board of Tustees special meeting (March 31, 1965), Ad Hoc Committee, special meeting of the Board of Trustees (May 19, 1966), (December 9, 1967), amd Special meeting of the Committee on Faculty and Staff Affairs (February 2, 1969).

The Board of Trustees and Committees generally met six times in the year. Many joint meetings of two Committees are present in the collection. Some of the Committees still stand today such as the Committee on Campus Planning, Buildings, and Grounds, but others have changed, such as the Committee on Gifts and Public Affairs, which is now the Committee on Institutional Advancement. See the California State University website at www.calstate.edu, for a current list of standing committees.

Committee meeting content is limited to the topical areas of the group, while Board of Trustee full meetings generally heard reports of these committees (also members of the Board) and enacted policies through resolutions. In some instances, public comment is also heard from campus constituents and community members.

During the earliest years of The California State University, the Board of Trustees Committees met separate from the Full Board meeting schedule of the Board of Trustees. Later, the meetings were held on the same dates, which is also reflected in the audio recordings. There are four U-matic video tapes in the collection that have also been digitized. These are limited to a single meeting date of October 26, 1977 and are not included in the California State University digitization project, but are available upon request.