Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Records

Collection

Call Number: UA094

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains records of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate. Materials include agendas, meeting minutes, reports, publications, manuals, anonymous course evaluations, clippings, and a student survey. Records date from 1962-2021.

Dates

1962 -- 2015

Creator

Tufts Community Union

Language of Materials

English

Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Some material in this collection may be protected by copyright and other rights. Please see “Reproductions and Use” on the Digital Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permission to publish. No documentation is available regarding the intellectual property rights in this collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred by the TCU Senate, 2012 -- 2021.

Arrangement

This collection is organized into three series: TCU Senate records; 2020 accessions; and 2020-2021 records.

Extent

6.37 Linear Feet (3 record cartons, 1 document box, and 1 oversize box)

8 Digital Object(s) (8 digital objects comprising 43 files.)

27.3 Megabytes

Additional Description

Overview

This collection contains the records of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, the student undergraduate legislative/executive body.

Biographical / Historical

Established in 1968, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate is the student parliament and legislative/executive body of TCU Student Government for the undergraduate students of the College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College and the College of Engineering. As of Spring 2000, it is charged with representing the needs and interests of the TCU before the faculty of the undergraduate colleges, the administration, and the Trustees of Tufts College. Through the Treasury, it oversees the use of the student activities fee and ensures that the needs and interests of the students are voiced.

Processing status

This collection is processed.

Processing Information

Records from the 2020-2021 academic year were processed by Jane Kelly in 2021. Materials were bagged using Bagger and copied to Box for access. Received order was maintained. A file-level inventory was created, and series and collection-level description were updated at the time of processing.