RG-AL: Alumni Office files:
Shane Cook's papers,1986 - 1995

Historical Note:
At the request of a group of alumni, President Drake created The President's Committee for a Stronger Minority Presence (PCSMP) in 1989. Its mission was "to explore avenues for assisting the College in building a stronger multi-cultural community beginning with a focus on the minority community." Their first meeting was in September 1989. They met with a group of faculty, students, and staff to draft recommendations for the President.

The Multicultural Task Force was created in August 1991 to work toward the goal of making the college a more multicultural community. It included students, faculty, and staff.

Provenance:
Transferred to Archives by Shane Cook, Alumni Secretary and staff member for both groups, March 1999.

Quantity: 2 boxes (7.5 linear in.)

Scope and Content Note:
Cook's papers contain memos, surveys & results, and minutes from Task Force meetings and similar materials for the PCSMP plus its recommendations to the President. There are many duplicates of items in various folders that were not discarded during processing.

Related materials: Additional materials on the Multicultural Task Force (02.12 p15)

Box Listing:

Box 1
Diversity training, 1991
Multicultural Task Force-Resources, 1991-92
Multicultural Task Force, 1991-93 (2 folders). Includes drafts of report to Pres.
Ferguson of recommended goals, Task Force meeting minutes, summaries
of responses to surveys.
Student Resources Center (Multicultural), 1992-94
Resources,1989-91. Includes presentations, publications, statistical analyses.
PCSMP membership,
PCSMP documents, 1988-89
Summary: Pres. Comm. for a Stronger Minority Presence, 1992
PCSMP, 1992-95
PCSMP materials, 1989-94. Includes minutes, meeting agenda.

Box 2
History of PCSMP
PCSMP-Historical record, 1986-93 (2 folders)
Expressions, 1988-91

Items discarded: Photocopies of journal articles

Processed by Leslie Czechowski, July 1999