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Maxwell School Records

A description of its records at the Syracuse University Archives


Finding aid created by: Jaihyun Park
Date: 2018



Historical Note

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs was founded at Syracuse University in 1924. The school was funded by Boston businessman George Holmes Maxwell, Class of 1888, who donated $500,000 to the University in support of teaching citizenship to students. William E. Mosher served as Maxwell's first dean, and the school's first building is Maxwell Hall, which was built in 1937. The Maxwell School was the first school to offer a graduate degree in public administration, starting in 1938. In 1993 Melvin A. Eggers Hall was built and linked via an atrium to Maxwell Hall.


Scope and Content Note

The Maxwell School Records include a wide variety of materials that document its history. The collection comprises faculty meeting minutes, faculty files, reports, office files, subject files, videotapes, photographs, and publications.


Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

The collection is currently unprocessed and not available for research.

School, college and department records are restricted to the office of origin for 30 years. Faculty personnel files are restricted for 80 years from date of separation from the University.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.


Related Material

The University Archives holds clipping files of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Images of the school can also be found in the Archives' Photograph Collection.


Selected Search Terms

Names

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.

Subjects

Citizenship.
Public administration.
Higher education.

Types of Material

Administrative reports.
CD-ROMs.
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Printed materials (object genre)
Videotapes.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Maxwell School Records,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

The Maxwell School transferred most of records between 1959 and 2017.

Processing Information

These records are not processed.


Arrangement

The collection is unprocessed and remains in original order.


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Inventory

An inventory has not yet been created for this collection. Please contact the Repository listed above for more information.