Administrative Policy Records of the University of Florida Vice President for Student Affairs

Series 49 contains the administrative records of the University of Florida Vice President for Student Affairs and its predecessors, the Dean for Student Affairs, the Dean of Student Personnel, and the Dean of Students. The series documents a wide range of student matters including campus politics, fraternities and sororities, and disciplinary issues. The earliest files are those of deans Benjamin Arthur Tolbert and Robert Colder Beaty. These include material on war training during World War II, the student honor code, and the National Youth Administration. Dean Beaty served as chair of the National College Work Council of the NYA,1942-1943, chair of the Regional College Work Council, 1941, and director of the Florida NYA, 1936-1937.

Later records in this series contain information on student counseling, student unrest in the 1960s, campus crime, substance abuse, student health issues, and minority issues in the files of Dean Lester Leonard Hale and Vice President C. Arthur Sandeen. Also included in this series are records of Hale and Beaty when they served as Dean of Men. Issues relating to the status of women at the University of Florida are documented in the administrative records of the Associate Dean of Student Services, Phyllis Meek.