Office Of New Students Programs (University of Michigan) records, circa 1950s-2005 (majority within 1989-2000)

Summary

Creator:

University of Michigan. Office Of New Students Programs.

Abstract:

Office designed to serve students new to the University of Michigan, including orientation program, university mentorship program, and welcome to Michigan program, as well as information and referral service for first-year students. Records relating to new student orientation program largely concerning diversity training and selection and training of counselors. Includes manuals, guides, and videotapes.

Extent:

5 linear feet
11 GB (online)

Language:

English

Call Number:

97117 Bimu 2

Authors:

Finding aid created by Lisa M. McNamara, September 1997 Carrie Hintz, April 2007

Background

Scope and Content:

The Office of New Students Programs records consist of files relating to new student orientation program largely concerning diversity training and selection and training of counselors. The records includes manuals, guides, and videotapes and are divided into four series, Administration/Organizational Files, Evaluations of the Diversity Program, Audio-Visual Material and Publications. The Administration/Organization Files, Evaluations of the Diversity Program and approximately half of the VHS tapes from the Audio-Visual Materials series were acquired by the library in 1997. The rest of the material was acquired in a separate accession in 2007.

Biographical / Historical:

The idea for the Office of New Students Programs (ONSP) was first proposed during the Fleming Administration by a task force concerned with how to revise the orientation program. The ONSP did not come into being until president James Duderstadt took office in 1988. President Duderstadt issued the Michigan Mandate in which he expressed a strong commitment to educating students about diversity. The Office of New Student Programs was responsible for teaching sessions on diversity during Summer Orientation. The students who conducted these sessions were called facilitators. The goal of the facilitators was to teach new students how to gain a greater understanding of prejudice and stereotyping and how they affect students' personal feelings. When this project first began ONSP contacted many other universities and sources such as the Anti-Defamation League to find out what materials they were using to teach about diversity. The ONSP learned that one of the means of education was through video. The ONSP continues to discuss diversity at orientation. The office currently maintains a web site where they answer general questions about the university and their office. The url for this site is www.umich.edu/~orient.

Acquisition Information:

Records were transferred from the Office of New Students Programs (Donor No. 8523 ) in 1997.

Accruals:

Periodic additions to the records expected.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

College student orientation -- Michigan.
Cross-cultural orientation -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Minorities -- Education, Higher -- Michigan.
Minority college students -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Multiculturalism -- Michigan.
Multicultural education -- Michigan.

Formats:

Digital file formats.
Videotapes.

Names:

University of Michigan. Office of New Student Programs.
University of Michigan -- Students.
University of Michigan. Office of Orientation.
Duderstadt, James J., 1942-