Vice President for Student Affairs: William R. Butler records

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Vice President for Student Affairs: William R. Butler records

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  • 1947-2019 (Creation)

Extent

14 Boxes

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Biographical history

Dr. William R. Butler served as Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Education at the University of Miami. He worked for the U.M. for 32 years, from 1965 to 1997. He is the author of "Embracing the world: the University of Miami: From cardboard college to international and global acclaim," and is also the founder of the William R. Butler Volunteer Service Center at the University.

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This collection contains annual reports, memorabilia, news articles, reports, certificates, meeting minutes, photographs, legislative documents, signs, and materials from the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG), which had been collected and maintained by the former Vice President for Student Affairs of University of Miami, William R. Butler. This collection also contains the series of interviews, captured on VHS and U-matic, that he conducted while working at University of Miami.

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This collection is open for research.

Physical access

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

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Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to ngi5@miami.edu.

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  • English

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A selection of material from this collection have been digitized:

https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asu0058

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Archivist's note

Processed by Archives Technician, Marcia Heath; finding aid edited by Processing Archivist, Yvette Yurubi, 01-10-23.

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