Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Archives 366
WSU Multicultural Student Services Records
1976-2008
3.75 linear feet of shelf space
8 boxes
Papers and records from Washington State University’s Multicultural Student Services and associated subsidiary groups, notably the African American Student Center and the Chicana/o Latina/o Student Center. The papers document attempts to recruit, support, and retain minority students, as well as racial issues on campus.
Collection materials are inEnglish.
Washington State University’s Office of Multicultural Student Services can trace back to the formation of a Chicano/Latino Center and a Native American Student Center in 1971. An African American Student Center (the Heritage House) and an Asian Pacific American Student Center would follow. In 1986, the four were pulled together under the new Division of Minority Affairs. In 1992 that became the Division of Multicultural Student Services, and “Division” was changed to “Office” in 1995.
The collection consists of records and papers from Washington State University’s Multicultural Student Services, dating from the 1970s to late 2000s, but bulking in the 1990s. The papers of the African American Student Center comprise about one quarter of the collection. Reports documents efforts of the MSS to recruit and retain minority students, as well as efforts to support them as students, increase awareness of racial issues, and deal with racial incidents on campus. The collection also include a number of photographs, primarily of social activities, events, and graduations.
The collection is organized both by type of material and originating office, and then by date or subject within those. First in the collection is records and papers from Multicultural Student Services and some of their subsidiary groups, organized by subject. Following that is one series of records and papers from the African American Student Center, again organized by subject. After those are two sets of media and photographs, the first from MSS in general, and the second from the Chicana/o Latina/o Student Center. Within each of those sets, media precedes photographs, and then within both media and photographs items are in chronological order.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
[Item Description]
WSU Multicultural Student Services Records, 1976-2008 (UA 366)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections,
Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection was received at Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) from Multicultural Student Services in two accessions, one from Steve Nakata on November 1, 2010, retained as UA2010-13; the other from Amy Poirier on November 10, 2016, retained as UA2016-13.
The collection was processed in December, 2016 by University Archivist Mark O’English. The two collections were combined in a new subject based order and rehoused during processing. Three oversized photographs were scanned at high-quality and archived, reprinted at 8.5”x11” and filed, and the oversized originals were then discarded.
A few newsletters and other small items were moved to MASC’s WSU Publications sets, under WSU 228.
Records from the Asia American and Pacific Islander Student Center (AAPI) are held in MASC as UA2014-02. Records of the Camarades (a Chicana/o Latina/o Graduate Student Association) as held as UA 2009-06, and MEChA records are held as MS2008-24. Records of the Office of Equity and Diversity, which oversees the MSS, are held as UA2007-08 and UA2012-07.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Washington State University -- Office of Multicultural Student Services -- Archives
Multicultural education -- Washington (State) -- Pullman
Colleges and Universities.
Multicultural Student Services and Subsidiary Groups
1
1
La Alianza de WSU
1
2
1995-1996
Annual Report
1
3
1996-1997
Annual Report
1
4
1997-1998
Annual Report
1
5
1994-1998
Campus diversity reports
1
6
1997
CASHE Youth Conference
1
7
1991
A Century of Diversity
Common Knowledge for the Mind
1
8
1990
1
9
1991
1
10
1992
1
11
1993
1
12
1994
1
13
1995
1
14
1996
1
15
1997
1
16
1999-2003
1
17
1990-1996
Budgeting & funding
1
18
1992-1998
Clippings
1
19
2004-2005
Conexion
2
1
1998
Commitment to a Diverse Community at Washington State University. A Plan of Action, 1997-2002.
2
2
1993-1994
Council of Multicultural Student Presidents
2
3
1994-1995
Council of Multicultural Student Presidents
2
4
1999
Division of Minority Affairs - Relocation
2
5
1979-1980
Ethnic Women's Cultural Week
2
6
1997-2002
Five Year Plan
2
7
1999-2004
Five Year Plan
2
8
2002-2007
Five Year Plan
2
9
1998
Multicultural Student Leaders Directory
2
10
2000
Native American Education Summit 2000 Report
2
11
2003-2005
Native American Student Center Budgets
2
12
1989-1995
Newspapers Clippings
Peer Mentor Program
2
13
1991-1992
3
1-2
1993, Fall
3
3
1994, Spring
3
4
1994, Fall
3
5
1995-1997
3
6
1997-1998
4
1
2000-2001, 2004
4
2
2002
Program Review
4
3
1999
Programs Supporting Campus Diversity
4
4
1976-2006
Programs & Clippings - Chicano/Latino events & individuals
Recruitment - Annual Report
4
5
1988-1989
4
6
1991-1992
4
7
1992-1993
4
8
1993-1994
4
9
1994-1995
4
10
1995-1996
4
11
1996-1997
4
12
1998-2003
4
13
1989-2000
Recruitment brochures
4
14
1998
Reorganization
4
15
1997-1998
Retention Progress Report
4
16
1989-1999
Scholarship Program pamphlets
4
17
1997
Status Report on Ad-Hoc Committee on Multicultural Student Services
4
18
1999
Town Hall Meeting on Race
4
19
1995-1997
Visions and Directions Report
Series 1: African American Student Center (AASC)
5
1
1989-1993
African American Alumni Alliance
5
2
Undated
Black History of the Pacific Northwest
5
3
Undated
Black Students Counseling Office
5
4
2001-2004
Budgets
5
5
1997-1998
Commission on the Status of Minorities
Events (primarily Black History Month / Week and MLK)
5
6
1976
5
7
1978
5
8
1978
5
9
1981
5
10
1982
5
11
1989
5
12
1991
5
13
1992
5
14
1993
5
15
1994
5
16
1995
5
17
1998
5
18
2000
5
19
2001
5
20
2002
5
21
2005
5
22
1980
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
5
23
2005
Freedom School
5
24
1995-2001
Graduation
5
25
2002
Graduation
5
26
2004
Graduation
5
27
2005
Graduation
5
28
Undated
Graduation - photographs
6
1
1990
Greek - Alpha Phi Alpha
6
2
1982-1991
Greek - Black groups
6
3
1982-1983
Greek - Delta Sigma Theta
6
4
1997-1998
Greek - National Pan Hellenic Council
6
5
1999-2000
Greek - National Pan Hellenic Council
6
6
2001
Greek - National Pan Hellenic Council
6
7
2003
Greek - National Pan Hellenic Council
6
8
1995-1998
Heritage House
6
9
1990, 1994
Incidents
6
10
2002
Incidents - Attic
6
11
1989
Incidents - blackface
6
12
1991
Incidents - racist remarks
6
13
1991
Incidents - Stepshow complaint
6
14
1991
Incidents - SWAT misconduct
6
15
2002-2003
Student recruitment
Media
6
16
2002
How to Recruit and Retain Students of Color (DVD)
6
17
2004
Future Cougars of Color (DVD)
6
18
2006
Building Tomorrow's Diverse Leaders (DVD)
6
19
2008
Uniting for a World Class Undergraduate Experience (DVD)
Photographs
7
1
1991
7
2
1993
7
3
1995
7
4
1996
7
5
1997
7
6
1998
7
7
1998
MLK March
7
8
2001
7
9
2000-2004
MSS Staff Retreat
7
10
Undated
7
11
Undated
Multicultural Center Open House
Media, Chicana/o Latina/o Student Center
8
1
Undated
Recruitment (2 VHS tapes)
8
2
2002
Semana de la Raza (2 VHS tapes)
8
3
2006
Graduation (DVD)
Photographs, Chicana/o Latina/o Student Center
8
4
1997, 1999
Graduation
8
5
2003
Graduation
8
6
2004
Graduation
8
7
1988
National Chicano Student Conference
8
8
Undated
from Norma Duran
8
9
Undated
from Norma Duran
8
10
Undated
Student Center Mural