University of California, Santa Barbara, Faculty Women's Club records, 1941-1999

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Summary

Abstract:
Records of University of California, Santa Barbara's Faculty Women's Club.
Extent:
4.75 Linear Feet (5 document boxes, 2 half-sized document boxes, and 4 flat oversize boxes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], University of California, Santa Barbara Faculty Women's Club records. UArch 97. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains membership lists, minutes, presidential files, financial and social records, histories, publications, event files, and scrapbooks.

Biographical / historical:

"In 1941, wives of faculty members, and some female and retired faculty who were also wives of faculty, organized a social group at Santa Barbara State College, a forerunner of the University of California at Santa Barbara, which they called the Faculty Wives' Club. The group, which had 42 charter members, met monthly for social activities. In 1944, the institution became Santa Barbara College of the University of California, and in 1958 it became the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Faculty Wives' Club also changed in the '50s to include women faculty and women administrators, as well as wives of faculty and administrators, and took the new name of UCSB Faculty Women's Club. Although the focus of the club was primarily social, it was the only organization available to further contact among the varied segments of the university community.

Since 1958, the members of the club instituted numerous outreach activities. The founding and funding of an undergraduate scholarship account with the UCSB Foundation [became a major partnership.]

The members also tutored and helped to acquaint foreign visitors, students, and their spouses to the University and to Santa Barbara...through organized activities and interest groups.

As the University has changed so has the Faculty Women's Club. ...[S]ince its inception, the Club has grown...and has changed its focus from a social club to an organization of women, diverse in background and profession, bound by their association with the University, who promote, educate, and do service for the University and the community."

From "History of the UCSB Faculty Women's Club," 1991, Box 2, Folder 8.

In 2014, their Bylaws were revised and the organization was renamed Shoreliners to reflect both male and female membership. Their primary goal was to promote social interaction throughout the University community and to raise funds for UCSB student scholarships. Today, the group is known as the UCSB Affiliates, which is dedicated to building and celebrating connections between UC Santa Barbara and the greater Santa Barbara community.

The former Faculty Women's Club website may be accessed via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Acquisition information:
Undetermined.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by subject into ten series:

  • Series 1: Communications and correspondence
  • Series 2: Events and publicity
  • Series 3: Financial records
  • Series 4: History
  • Series 5: Membership lists
  • Series 6: Minutes
  • Series 7: Presidents
  • Series 8: Publications
  • Series 9: Scrapbooks
  • Series 10: Social records

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and may be retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.

All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB 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. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], University of California, Santa Barbara Faculty Women's Club records. UArch 97. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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