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Bryn Mawr College Self-Government Association (SGA) Records
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Bryn Mawr College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Self-Government Association at Bryn Mawr College was founded by students in 1892. The College therefore became the first institution of higher education in the United States to give students responsibility to not only enforce rules of behavior upon themselves, but also for decide what those rules should be. Under the Bryn Mawr College Honor Code and Self-Government Association Constitution, Bryn Mawr College undergraduates take responsibility for governing themselves in academic and social matters, as well as playing an active and fundamental role in the life of the College. The SGA represents the concerns and needs of the undergraduate body to the administration. Twice a year, the SGA holds meetings for all undergraduate students to attend and share proposals, ammendments to the Constitution, and resolutions. The Constitution of the SGA is reaffirmed each spring.
Contains the records of Bryn Mawr College's Self-Government Association (SGA), with gaps in the record. The collection includes Self-Government correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, publications, budgets, and material related to the founding of the SGA and its evolution over time.
Material is arranged into rough catagories, likely organized as it came in over time. More recent SGA archival material is available in Special Collections upon request, but is currently unprocessed.
The majority of SGA materials were transferred to the College Archives by the SGA. Some records were transferred by individual members of the SGA.
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- Bryn Mawr College
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This collection is open for research. Some material is restricted at the file level due to the presence of private personal information. Consult with Special Collections about specific restrictions.
Collection Inventory
Broken file.
Contains SGA minutes, notices, memoranda, financial accounts, deposit records, etc. of the dormitory president, along with correspondence.
Completed questionnaire for "Purpose of a Women's College," a survey for the Bryn Mawr College undergraduate student body conducted by the Self-Government Association in 1979-80 and volume II of the final report.