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Call Number: SC0420
Creator:
Baxter, William F., 1929-1998
Title: William F. Baxter committee records
Dates: 1966-1973
Physical Description:
3 Linear feet
Summary: Minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, press releases, clippings, and other items pertaining to Baxter's work as chair
of the Committee on Research Policy as well as his work with the Provost's Committee on Economics, the Presidential Search
Committee, Committee on Planning and Search in the Dept. of Economics, and the Stanford Campus Homeowners Association. Collection
also includes clippings and press releases pertaining to student unrest at Stanford, 1968-1971.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of William F. Baxter, 1986.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
William F. Baxter Committee Records (SC0420). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
William F. Baxter earned his a.b. at Stanford University in 1951 and his j .d. at Stanford Law School in 1956. He has been
on the Stanford Law School faculty since 1960. From 1966 to 1969 he was chairman of the Academic Council's Committee on Research
Policy which considered University policy on research contracts and grants in regard to their impact on the University as
a whole. One of its directives was to conduct a continuing review of problems relating to classified research.
This collection documents Baxter's work on university committees, primarily the Academic Council's Committee on Research Policy
. The records ,which date from 1966 to 1973 , include minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, press releases, and clippings.
Other committees represented are the Provost's Committee on Economics, the Presidential Search Committee, Committee on Planning
and Search in the Department of Economics, and the Stanford Campus Homeowners Association. The collection also includes clippings
and press releases pertaining to student unrest at Stanford, 1968-1971 .
Baxter, William F., 1929-1998
Stanford Campus Homeowners Association.
Stanford University. Academic Council. Committee on Research Policy.
Stanford University. Department of Economics.
Stanford University. Office of the Provost. Committee on Economics.
College students--Political activity.
Education, Higher--Research.
Federal aid to research.
Student movements--California.