Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education – Special Collections & University Archives

Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education Records

1985-2006.

6 boxes 9 linear feet

Call no.: MS 513

Founded in 1982, the Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education (MWPHE) is a non-profit organization open to current and prospective women administrators in public higher education in the Commonwealth. Founded in 1982, the MWPHE serves as a support network, enhances professional development, encourages and promotes upward mobility, and addresses issues affecting Massachusetts public higher education and the status of women within the system.

The MWPHE records include administrative files and correspondence that document the organization’s work since its founding.

Biographical Note

MWPHE members

Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education (MWPHE) is a non-profit organization open to women administrators, as well as to those women who aspire to administrative positions in public higher education in Massachusetts. Since 1982, the organization has established an information and support network, enhanced professional development, encouraged and promoted upward mobility, and addressed issues affecting Massachusetts public higher education and the status of women within the system.

Scope and Contents

Founded in 1982, the records of Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education document the organization’s work since their earliest days. Taken as a whole, the collection demonstrates the impact the MWPHE has had on the quality of public higher education in Massachusetts. In particular, the collection highlights the organization’s mission to represent and support women administrators, encourage networking for women, and provide professional development through speakers, workshops and forums.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education Records (MS 513). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

History of the Collection

Acquired from Diane Smith, 2006.

Contents List


Address lists	1990-1991	Box 1.4.4
Agendas	1987-2002	Box 2.58
Conferences, Board meetings, retreats.
Annual retreat	2006 June 8-9	Box 6.12
Board members	1987-2003	Box 2.50
Board elections, campus coordinators, letters and emails, biographies, research committee report.
Briarwood retreat	1988-1996	Box 1.4.5
Minutes, memoranda, application form, schedules and calendars.
Brochure	1989-1995	Box 1.5.1
Invitations and membership applications.
Brochure	undated	Box 2.55
Budget	1994	Box 2.5
By-Laws Committee	1987-1994	Box 2.17
Letters, meeting minutes, financial records, campus coordinators, professional development funds, memoranda, reports.
By-laws	1987-1995	Box 1.5.2
Proposed revisions and changes to by-laws, memorandum.
By-laws	2002	Box 2.59
Proposed revisions and changes.
Calendar	1994-1995	Box 2.8
Campus Coordinators correspondence	1988-1995	Box 2.9
Memoranda of: Martha D. Jones, Anita Kaplan, Joan M. McGowan, Patricia E. Chisholm, Mary E. Wilson, Elaine Gardiner.
Campus Coordinators	1991-1993	Box 1.6.1
Memoranda.
Committee descriptions and members	1993-1995	Box 1.4.3
Executive Board, regional coordinators, conferences, retreats, members directory.
Committee descriptions and members	1990-1995	Box 2.10
Committee members	1990-1995	Box 1.6.2
Committee membership lists.
Conference brochures	1990-2002	Box 2.52
Conference brochures	undated	Box 6.15
Conference evaluation	2003 Spring	Box 4.3
Conference evaluation	2004 Spring	Box 4.4
Conference ideas	1987-1995	Box 2.6
Conference minutes	2004	Box 4.5
Conference photograph album	2001 Fall	Box 6.10
Conference sites and meetings	1993-1994	Box 2.40
Conference	1993	Box 4.6
Conference	2002	Box 2.1
Conferences	1988-1993	Box 2.11
Mission statement, memoranda, and information concerning: Educational Leadership (1990), High Strides (1993), and Little Flags Theatre (1988).
Cooperative ventures	1987-1994	Box 2.60
Articles, committees, letters from Dorothea Alexander, Joan M. McGowan, Cynthia McGurren, Mary E. Wilson, Martha A. Brine.
Correspondence with CEOs	1993-1994	Box 1.6.3
Correspondence of Mary E. Wilson, Peter H. Cressy, Nancy Harrington.
Correspondence with CEOs	1993-1995	Box 2.13
Correspondence of Mary E. Wilson, Marion Kilson, Paul Frydrych, Anita Kaplan.
Correspondence with CEOs	1993-1994	Box 2.14
Correspondence of Mary E. Wilson, Adrian Tinsley, Grace Carolyn Brown, Daniel M. Asquino, Peter H. Cressy.
Correspondence with residents	1994-1995	Box 2.12
Special contributions, checks, and letters.
Correspondence with speakers	1987, 1993-1994	Box 2.15
Correspondence of Mary E. Wilson, Lois Harrison-Jones, Mary Caton, Jacqueline Kral, Elaine Gardiner, Grace Carolyn Brown, Stanley Z. Koplik, Patricia McGovern.
Correspondence with speakers	1993	Box 1.6.4
Correspondence of Mary E. Wilson, Grace Carolyn Brown, Stanley Z. Koplik, Patricia McGovern.
Correspondence	1990-1995	Box 1.4.1
Correspondence of Marion Bojas, Mary E. Wilson, Dorothea Alexander, Martha Jones.
Development	1994-1995, 2003	Box 2.3
By-laws and proposed revisions, memoranda, directory, money receipt book.
E-Board retreat	2005 June 9-10	Box 6.6
Elections	1988-1995	Box 2.7
Election committee, Executive Board, list of candidates.
Elections	1994	Box 1.7.1
Memoranda.
Evaluation results	2004	Box 4.7
Evaluations	1999-2001	Box 2.54
Conferences.
Events pamphlets	2003-2004	Box 5.5
Executive Board meetings	1987-1995	Box 1.4.6
Minutes, memoranda, Secretary’s report.
Executive Board correspondence	1985-1997	Box 1.7.2
Correspondence and memoranda of Mary E. Wilson, Dorothea Alexander, Martha Brine, Carol Vaas, Elaine Gardiner, Martha Jones.
Executive Board correspondence	1990-1994	Box 2.18
Correspodence of Elaine Gardiner, Mary E. Wilson, Dorothea Alexander, Roberta T. Noodell, Diane Lapkin, Gail A. Indyk, Cynthia McCurren, Kay Ransdell.
Executive Board members	1990-1995	Box 1.7.3
Membership lists.
Executive Board	1988-1995	Box 2.16
Board officers and members, regional coordinators.
Executive Board	1994-1995	Box 2.19
Application for members, nomination forms, minutes, budget, memoranda.
Founding members	1994, 2002	Box 2.49
Newsletter, invitation, diskette.
How to Get Appointed to State Boards and Commissions: A Directory Prepared by Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women	undated	Box 6.8
Job Postings	1994	Box 2.21
Kaori Kelts	1993-2002	Box 3.1
Binder containing mostly letters, memoranda, brochures.
Letterhead	undated	Box 6.1
Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, Annual Report	2005	Box 6.2
Meeting	2004 Aug 13	Box 4.1
Membership committee	1993-1994	Box 2.25
Memoranda, brochure, flyer.
Membership correspondence	1989-1996	Box 1.8.2
Letters, memoranda, invitations, faxes, reports.
Membership correspondence	1993-1995	Box 2.27
Correspondence of Mary E. Wilson, Gwendolyn Rosemond, Cynthia McGurren, Dorothea Alexander, Elaine Gardiner.
Membership lists	1990-1994	Box 2.26
Membership lists	1993-1995	Box 1.8.1
Membership	1993-1997	Box 1.3
Professional development award application, Executive Board, annual retreat.
Membership	1994-1995	Box 1.4.2
Newsletter, Executive Board, annual retreat, committees.
Memoranda and letters	undated	Box 6.9
Minutes	1995-2002	Box 2.57
Executive Board minutes, annual board retreat, position descriptions, reports.
Miscellaneous	1992	Box 5.1
Miscellaneous	1995-1997	Box 5.2
Miscellaneous	2000-2003	Box 3.4
Letters, emails, brochures.
Miscellaneous	2003 Aug	Box 4.9
Miscellaneous	2004	Box 5.3
Miscellaneous	2005 Feb	Box 5.4
Miscellaneous	undated	Box 2.28
Business card and note.
Newsletters	1994	Box 2.29
Memoranda, copy of newsletter, fall and spring conferences.
Newsletters	1994-1996	Box 1.9.1
Issues of newsletter, memoranda, invoices, faxes, photographs.
Newsletters	2001	Box 2.2
Newsletters	2004 Spring	Box 6.7
Newsletters	2005 Spring	Box 6.4
Newsletters	1993-2004	Box 2.56
Nominations Committee	1988	Box 1.9.2
Mary E Mahoney to candidates concerning elections for the Executive Board.
Nominations Committee	1988-1994	Box 2.30
Letters ffrom Mary E. Mahoney, Mary E. Wilson, Dorothea Alexander.
OFC Day Care Project	1991-1993	Box 2.4
Parallel Lives: the Kathy and Mo Show, Stone Forge Inn.	2003 Apr 25	Box 5.6
Photograph album	undated	Box 6.14
Photographs	undated	Box 6.11
Positions descriptions	undated	Box 2.31
Regional coordinator, campus coordinator.
Positions descriptions	1988	Box 1.10
Professional Development Award application	2004	Box 4.2
Professional Development Committee	1991-1996	Box 1.11
Memoranda and faxes concerning professional development awards and scholarships.
Professional Development Committee	1991-1995	Box 2.33
Memoranda, letters, awards committee report.
Program committee	1990-1994	Box 2.34
Members, letters from Mary E. Wilson, Jean Goodwin, Dorothea Alexander.
Public Relations Committee	1993-1995	Box 1.1
Minutes, budget, memorandum, letters, invitation, pamphlet, photographs.
Public Relations Committee	1993-1995	Box 1.12
Letters and memoranda.
Public Relations Committee	1993-1994	Box 2.36
Letters, by-laws.
Raynham, Mass.	undated	Box 5.7
Real Cuts-Real People-Real Pain: The Effects of the Fiscal Crisis on Women and Girls in Massachusetts; prepared for the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.	2004 Dec	Box 6.5
Regional and campus coordinators	1988-1995	Box 2.37
Lists, job descriptions, memoranda.
Regional and campus coordinators	1990-1996	Box 1.13
Lists of coordinators.
Regional and campus members	1993-1994	Box 2.23
Campus coordinators, members, committees.
Regional coordinators	1991-1994	Box 2.38
Regional meetings	1987	Box 1.14
Regional meetings	undated	Box 2.39
Memorandum from Dorothea Alexander to Campus Coordinators
Research Committee	1986-1987	Box 1.15
Letters and memoranda concerning research questionnaire.
Resignations	1993-1995	Box 2.42
Resignations	1994	Box 1.16
Resource directory	2002-2003	Box 5.10
Retreat	1988-1995	Box 2.43
Letters and memoranda, schedules, financial records, Briarwood minutes,position descriptions.
Retreat	2003 June	Box 4.8
Speakers	1999-2001	Box 2.53
Biographies and professional summaries, conferences.
Spring conference brochures	2006 Apr 28	Box 6.3
Stationary	undated	Box 2.41
Stationary	undated	Box 1.17.3
Staying Upbeat in Downbeat Times, Publick House, Sturbridge, Mass.	2003 Oct 31	Box 5.8
Student Awards Committee	Letters and lists of winners.	Box 1.17.1
Student Awards Committee	1990-1995	Box 2.44
Criteria and nomination forms, letters and memoranda.
Tax documents	1990-1994	Box 1.2
By-laws, check register, bank slips, memoranda concerning tax exempt status.
Treasurer’s reports	1989-1995	Box 2.47
Check registers, expense reports, federal tax information.
Treasurer’s correspondence	1993-1994	Box 2.46
Letters and memoranda, receipts, financial statements.
Treasurer’s reports	1999-2000	Box 2.51
Membership, conferences, retreats, invoices, letters.
Treasurer’s report	2003 Nov	Box 4.10
Treasurer’s report	2004 Nov	Box 4.11
Treasurer’s report	2005	Box 5.9
Treasurer’s Reports	1990-1996	Box 1.17.2
Letters and memoranda concerning conferences, check registers, reimbursements, donations.
Women’s organizations: MAWE	1993	Box 2.48
Connections East Survey.
Worcester State College Catering Services	1985-2002	Box 3.5
Letters and memoranda, brochures, photographs.
You: Resilient in a World of Change, DiBurro’s, Ward Hill, Mass.	2004 Apr 2	Box 5.11

Subjects

Education, Higher--MassachusettsWomen educators--Massachusetts

Contributors

Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education

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