Annual Retreat, 2005 August

This collection houses annual reports, project records, marketing materials, meeting agendas and minutes, annual retreat and training records, VHS tapes, compact disks, and floppy diskettes documenting the Campus Environment Team's work from 1989 to 2008. Materials in the collection date from 1987 to 2008. This collection has been divided into four series showing CET's work.

Series I: Administrative Records includes annual reports, agendas and minutes of monthly meetings, information about funded projects, materials related to annual retreats and trainings, and materials related to research that was conducted by the CET. Topics discussed include the purpose of the CET, CET and other administrative responses to instances of harassment, discrimination, and hate crimes, the sponsorship of events that promote diversity, and research conducted by the CET regarding the state of diversity, harassment, and discrimination on campus. These records are arranged chronologically.

Series II: CET Grant-Funded Events and Project Records includes materials related to the events and projects funded by grants from the CET. These are arranged alphabetically by event and project name. Project proposals commonly contain a cover letter, event description, event justification, budget, event program/agenda, and committee approval/rejection letters. Beginning in the late 1990s program proposals also include a grant application checklist form, proposal agreements, and event marketing flyers.

Series III: CET Research includes research conducted by and at the request of CET. Some of these materials include surveys, brochures, data analyses, and educational materials created by the CET or collected by the CET. Among the topics covered are race relations in higher education, sexual harassment, programs relating to ethnic diversity, research on sexist language, discrimination against gays and lesbians, religious discrimination, and College of Liberal Arts Minority Retention Programs.

Series IV: Origins and Founding of the Campus Environment Team includes memos, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence inviting faculty participation, statements of purpose, newspaper clippings, and research materials on discrimination and harassment on university campuses. Origins records include memoranda (for example, communicating meetings, responding to requests for information, communication with the university president and legal counsel, and community responses to CET creation proposal), meeting agenda, invitations to serve on study committees to establish CET, study recommendations, and campus climate research (literature, other universities' campus policies/efforts, and newspaper clippings).