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University of Michigan professor and administrator, director of the university's residential college, 1967-1973. Correspondence, 1956-1973, with students and colleagues; speech notes and various other writings; and photographs.

The Robertson papers are comprised largely of routine personal and professional correspondence. His interests in faculty-student counseling, university administrative policies (not specifically University of Michigan), and maintaining friendships with students are documented in this collection. Besides correspondence, this collection also includes notes from addresses given to high school students, university alumni, and Residential College students and parents. His writing is well represented through poems, casual descriptive essays about students, and his published articles. An interesting piece of Residential College paraphernalia, the mock diploma from the College's first graduating class (1971), may also be found in these papers. Included are photographic portraits of Dr. Robertson.

Inaugurated in 1967 as a living-learning community within the larger university, planning for the Residential College began in the early 1960s. Records relate to the planning and founding of the Residential College, 1962-1967, and include materials concerning curriculum, educational policies, governance and student attitudes from the College's opening in 1967 through 2010. Research papers produced by the Social Science Program's Student-Faculty Research Communities are also present

The records of the Residential College relate to the planning and founding of the Residential College, 1962-1967, and include materials concerning curriculum, educational policies, governance and student attitudes from the College's opening in 1967 through to the present. Research papers produced by the Social Science Program's Student-Faculty Research Communities are also present. The records are arranged into the following series: Planning and Organization, Administration, Executive Committee, Triennial Reviews, Social Science Program, Photographs, Topical Files, Audiovisual, and Archived Website.

1986 graduate of the University of Michigan, member of the Ann Arbor-Managua Initiative for Soil Testing Development brigade. Topical files concerning student/community organizations and student academic programs, including the Humanitarian Assistance Project for the Independent Development of Agriculture in Nicaragua, the University of Michigan Committee on the Underclass Experience, the University of Michigan Residential College, and the Ann Arbor-Managua Initiative for Soil Testing Development brigade.

The Scott Chaplin papers document various student related organizations in the university community. The records span the years 1966-1989, with the bulk of the materials covering 1969-1986. The papers are divided into two series: Topical Files and Photographs.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and other materials relating to administration of the office; include files relating to operation and naming of University dormitories, especially detailing the establishment of housing policy and the resolution of housing controversies; information on small group housing and off-campus housing with individual files on fraternities and sororities; also files concerning the occupational status and treatment of Japanese-Americans working for the University during World War II, and concerning the housing and training of military personnel on campus during the war.

The records of the Housing Division provide documentation on development and administration of the university's dormitory system, off-campus housing and student life. The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and other materials relating to administration of the office; include files relating to operation and naming of University dormitories, especially detailing the establishment of housing policy and the resolution of housing controversies; information on small group housing and off-campus housing with individual files on fraternities and sororities; also files concerning the occupational status and treatment of Japanese-Americans working for the University during World War II, and concerning the housing and training of military personnel on campus during the war.