Addition

This addition to the records of the Graduate School Dean Clarence L. Ver Steeg fill thirty-six boxes and are arranged into four categories: Ver Steeg's chronologically-arranged correspondence files, general subject files, budgetary records, and records relating to a conference on South Africa chaired by Dean Ver Steeg.

The correspondence files, filling more than nine boxes, contain copies of Ver Steeg's outgoing letters relating to Graduate School and University administrative matters. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and usually foldered month by month. Within folders letters are filed in reverse chronological order.

General subject files form the largest portion of the addition, more than twenty-one boxes, and pertain to administrative matters, associations and organizations relating to research and higher education, Northwestern University departments and interdisciplinary programs, curricular affairs and planning, faculty committees, and Northwestern officers and administrators. The subject files are arranged alphabetically by keyword of folder title.

Budgetary records are arranged in approximately four boxes. The files mainly include summary budget records as well as records concerning Northwestern's Administrative Budget Committee and the Budget and Resources Advisory Council.

Ver Steeg took the leading role in setting up the U.S. Policy Toward South Africa: A National Agenda conference sponsored jointly by Northwestern and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Held May 27-28, 1981, the conference became a focal point in efforts to change Northwestern's investment policies as they concerned corporations operating in South Africa. The files found here pertain largely to the organization of the conference.