Box 1

Abstract This collection brings together documents of multiple origins relating to the early history of the university, from its planning and founding to its development in the years following its opening. This includes the planning of the future university in the 1956-1959 period; the Meadow Brook Seminars, a series of meetings held at Meadow Brook Hall in 1959 to discuss the curriculum of the future university; the establishment of the university in 1959-1960; curriculum development; student life;...