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Bryn Mawr College Self-Government Association (SGA) Records
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Overview and metadata sections
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
- Access Restrictions
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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
Letter from Susan Walker (Class of 1893) to student body regarding beginning Self-Government at Bryn Mawr College, 1891.
Box 1
Folder 1
Student replies to letter from Susan Walker, 1891.
Box 1
Folder 2
Correspondence (personal references), 1892-1898.
Box 1
Folder 3
Correspondence (personal references), 1899-1911.
Box 1
Folder 4
Letter in reply to an SGA request concerning "criminal conduct", 1908.
Box 1
Folder 5
Correspondence (personal references), 1913-1915.
Box 1
Folder 6
Correspondence (personal references), 1916-1918.
Box 1
Folder 7
Correspondence (personal references), 1919-1928.
Box 1
Folder 8
Correspondence (personal references), 1929-1932.
Box 1
Folder 9
Correspondence (personal references), 1933-1943.
Box 1
Folder 10
Correspondence (personal references), 1922-1952.
Box 1
Folder 11
Correspondence (personal references), 1957-1964.
Box 1
Folder 12
Scope and Contents
Broken file.
Constitution and Resolutions, (1970-1971).
Box 2
Folder 1
Constitution and Resolutions, (1961-62, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968).
Box 2
Folder 2
Constitution and Resolutions, (1957-58, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1960-61).
Box 2
Folder 3
Constitution and Resolutions, (1953-54, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1956-57).
Box 2
Folder 4
Constitution and Resolutions, (1949-50, 1950-51, 1951-52, 1952-53).
Box 2
Folder 5
Constitution and Resolutions, (1945-46, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-9).
Box 2
Folder 6
Constitution and Resolutions, (1941-42, 1942-43, 1943-44, 1944-45).
Box 2
Folder 7
Constitution and Resolutions, (1937-38, 1938-39, 1939-40, 1940-41).
Box 2
Folder 8
Constitution and Resolutions, (1931-32, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1936-37).
Box 2
Folder 9
Constitution and Resolutions, (1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30).
Box 2
Folder 10
Constitution and Resolutions, (1907, 1910, 1913, 1920-21, 1922-23, 1923-24).
Box 2
Folder 11
Constitution and Resolutions, 1961-1962.
Box 3
Folder 1
Constitution and Resolutions, 1959-1961.
Box 3
Folder 2
Constitution and Resolutions, (1954-55, 1955-56, 1957-58, 1958-59).
Box 3
Folder 3
Constitution and Resolutions, 1953-1954.
Box 3
Folder 4
Constitution and Resolutions, 1951-1953.
Box 3
Folder 5
Constitution and Resolutions, (1947-48, 1948-49, 1950-51).
Box 3
Folder 6
Constitution and Resolutions, 1946-1947.
Box 3
Folder 7
Constitution and Resolutions, 1942, 1944-45.
Box 3
Folder 8
Constitution and Resolutions, 1920-21, 1940-41, 1941-42.
Box 3
Folder 9
Constitution and Resolutions, 1961-62, 1962, 1963, 1968.
Box 4
Folder 1
Constitution and Resolutions, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1960-61.
Box 4
Folder 2
Constitution and Resolutions, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58.
Box 4
Folder 3
Constitution and Resolutions, 1951-52, 1952-53, 1953-54, 1954-55.
Box 4
Folder 4
Constitution and Resolutions, (1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1950-51).
Box 4
Folder 5
Constitution and Resolutions, 1942-43, 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46.
Box 4
Folder 6
Constitution and Resolutions, 1936-37, 1938-39, 1940-41, 1941-42.
Box 4
Folder 7
Constitution and Resolutions, 1921-22, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1934-35.
Box 4
Folder 8
Constitution and Resolutions, 1963.
Box 5
Folder 1
Constitution and Resolutions, 1962.
Box 5
Folder 2
Constitution and Resolutions, 1961-1962.
Box 5
Folder 3
Constitution and Resolutions, n.d.
Box 5
Folder 4
Constitution, bylaws, and revisions to the Constitution, 1976.
Box 5
Folder 5
Constitution, resolutions of the Self-Government Association, n.d.
Box 5
Folder 6
Constitution, amended drafts, 1984-1985.
Box 5
Folder 7
Constitution, 1985.
Box 5
Folder 8
Plenary Proposal for Complete Constitutional Revision, 1978.
Box 5
Folder 9
Proposed, but failed Constitutions.
Box 5
Folder 10
Constitution, misc.
Box 5
Folder 11
Bi-College Drug Policy.
Box 5
Folder 12
Honor Code Miscellany.
Box 5
Folder 13
Students' Association for Self-Government Minutes, 1891-1897.
Box 6
Folder 1
Students' Association for Self-Government Minutes, 1898-1909.
Box 6
Folder 2
Students' Association for Self-Government Minutes, 1909-1915.
Box 6
Folder 3
Students' Association for Self-Government Minutes, 1915-1919.
Box 6
Folder 4
Students' Association for Self-Government Minutes, 1919-1923.
Box 6
Folder 5
Students' Association for Self-Government Minutes, 1923-1929.
Box 6
Folder 6
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1891-1894.
Box 7
Folder 1
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1894-1897.
Box 7
Folder 2
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1897-1898.
Box 7
Folder 3
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1898-1902.
Box 7
Folder 4
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1902-1906.
Box 7
Folder 5
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1906-1907.
Box 7
Folder 6
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1907-1910.
Box 7
Folder 7
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1916-1922.
Box 7
Folder 8
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1922-1928.
Box 8
Folder 1
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1928-1940.
Box 8
Folder 2
Students' Association for Self-Government, Executive Board Minutes, 1940-1948.
Box 8
Folder 3
Annual Reports, 1956-1958.
Box 9
Folder 1
Attitude (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 2
Budget, 1957-1959.
Box 9
Folder 3
Check Registers, 1972-1975.
Box 9
Folder 4
Constitutional Revision, Spring 1967.
Box 9
Folder 5
Discredit (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 6
Drinking (restricted.
Box 9
Folder 7
Drugs.
Box 9
Folder 8
8:00 Signouts.
Box 9
Folder 9
General student opinion, College News, etc.
Box 9
Folder 10
Guest misconduct (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 11
Haverford Student Council.
Box 9
Folder 12
Lateness (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 13
Leave Hall, failure to report (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 14
Minutes, Advisory and Executive Boards, 1960-1961.
Box 9
Folder 15
Minutes, Advisory and Executive Boards, 1961-1962.
Box 9
Folder 16
Minutes, Advisory and Executive Boards, 1962-1963.
Box 9
Folder 17
Minutes, Advisory and Executive Boards, 1963-1964.
Box 9
Folder 18
Minutes, Advisory and Executive Boards, 1964-1965.
Box 9
Folder 19
Minutes, Advisory and Executive Boards, 1965-1966.
Box 9
Folder 20
Minutes, Advisory and Executive Boards, 1966.
Box 9
Folder 21
Permission giver (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 22
Petitions and overnight (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 23
Rules, general.
Box 9
Folder 24
Self-Government Exam, 1967.
Box 9
Folder 25
Self-Government statements.
Box 9
Folder 26
Self-Government presidents, 1949-1969.
Box 9
Folder 27
Sign out (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 28
Smoking, accomplices (restricted).
Box 9
Folder 29
Records of the Office of the SGA President, 1977-1978.
Box 10
Folder 1
SGA Manual, n.d.
Box 10
Folder 2
Self-Government History.
Box 10
Folder 3
Records of the Office of the SGA President.
Box 10
Folder 4
Vice President/Residence Council Records, 1979-1980.
Box 10
Folder 5
Pembroke East Dormitory Financial Records, 1972-1979.
Box 10
Folder 6
Minutes of the SGA Assembly Weekly Meetings, 1986-1987.
Box 10
Folder 7
Minutes of the SGA Assembly Weekly Meetings, 1984-1986.
Box 10
Folder 8
Minutes of the SGA Assembly Weekly Meetings, 1982.
Box 10
Folder 9
Minutes of the SGA Assembly Weekly Meetings, 1987-1988.
Box 10
Folder 10
Minutes of the SGA Assembly Weekly Meetings, 1990-1991.
Box 10
Folder 11
Misc. SGA Related Material.
Box 10
Folder 12
President of Merion Hall's Notebook.
Box 10
Folder 13
Constitution and Resolutions from Class of 1900, 1896-1897.
Box 11
Folder 1
Constitution, 1892.
Box 11
Folder 2
Resolution, 1892-1959.
Box 11
Folder 3
Minutes of Meetings.
Box 11
Folder 4
Decisions of Executive Board, 1903.
Box 11
Folder 5
Legal Opinions.
Box 11
Folder 6
Speeches to freshman, President Thomas Address, 1917.
Box 11
Folder 7
Annual Reports of the Executive Board and President, 1904-1909.
Box 11
Folder 8
Annual Reports of the Executive Board and President, 1913-1921.
Box 11
Folder 9
Annual Reports of the Executive Board and President, 1923-1960.
Box 11
Folder 10
Surveys, budgets, petitions.
Box 11
Folder 11
Speeches, petitions, etc., 1943-1944.
Box 11
Folder 12
Self-Government, 1898-1970.
Box 11
Folder 13
Dormitory Records: Pembroke West, 1975-1982.
Box 12
Scope and Contents
Contains SGA minutes, notices, memoranda, financial accounts, deposit records, etc. of the dormitory president, along with correspondence.
Account Book, 1973-1974.
Box 13
Folder 1
Account Book, 1974-1975.
Box 13
Folder 2
Board of Trustees, 1971-1974.
Box 13
Folder 3
Budgets, 1972-1976.
Box 13
Folder 4
Budgets, 1973-1974.
Box 13
Folder 5
Budgets, 1974-1975.
Box 13
Folder 6
Budgets, 1974-1975.
Box 13
Folder 7
Budgets, 1974-1976.
Box 13
Folder 8
Club reports, 1930-1970.
Box 13
Folder 9
Constitutions, 1919 - .
Box 13
Folder 10
Cooperation with Haverford (con't), 1969-1973.
Box 13
Folder 11
Cooperation with Haverford, 1969-1973.
Box 13
Folder 12
Cooperation with Haverford (restricted), 1972-1976.
Box 13
Folder 13
SGA and SC Correspondance.
Box 13
Folder 14
Curriculum Committee, 1922-1977.
Box 13
Folder 15
Curriculum Committee (con't,), 1922-1977.
Box 13
Folder 16
Dorm exchange, 1972-1973.
Box 13
Folder 17
Minutes, 1949-1956.
Box 13
Folder 18
Executive Minutes (restricted), 1971-1973.
Box 13
Folder 19
Freshman Info, 1947-1975.
Box 13
Folder 20
Freshman Show, 1963-1973.
Box 13
Folder 21
Honor Board info.
Box 13
Folder 22
May Day, traditions report.
Box 13
Folder 23
[MISSING] Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Vassar visits, 1975.
Box 13
Folder 24
Political Action.
Box 13
Folder 25
Residence, 1972-1975.
Box 13
Folder 26
Speeches, 1970-1974.
Box 13
Folder 27
"Purpose of a Women's College".
Volume 14
Scope and Contents
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.