Call Number:

003.003.006

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.02 linear ft. (1 box)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program records (HCE.003.003.006) Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1966-1967 (inclusive)

Abstract:

This collection contains materials related to Haverford's 1960's Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program.

The Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program sought to help recent college graduates continue their education beyond the bachelor's degree. The program was centered at Haverford College but also worked in tandem with other small liberal arts colleges such as Bryn Mawr, Knox, Hamilton, Carleton, Kalamazoo, and Swarthmore. Accepted fellows would choose which of these colleges they wanted to attend, and if approved by that college, would spend a year taking courses there and further preparing to pursue higher education after the program. The program acknowledged that Black students faced particular difficulties obtaining Ph.D's or other higher degrees, and thus recruited fellows mostly from predominantly Black colleges in the South. Though the program was not exclusively for Black students, recruiting Black students was a main focus of the program and all but two of the fellows in the 1966-1967 academic year were Black.

This collection includes materials regarding the Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program. There are a collection of letters to fellows and faculty advisors of the fellows; a pamphlet explaining the goals of the fellowship program; a list of the 1966 fellows; and three itineraries detailing Henry Cadbury's recruitment tours of Black colleges in the South.

Arranged chronologically