Student Activities Committee,, 1963 - 1964

This collection combines the records from Warren Brandt’s tenure in the Office of the Vice President (RG 3/4) and the Office of Executive Vice President (RG 4/1) and is listed as RG 3/4. The collection contains primarily correspondence concerning university business, including letters to the president of the university, T. Marshall Hahn, academic deans, faculty, parents and students. Materials from the Academic Council, University Council, National Science Foundation, and the Visiting Scholar Program are also contained in the collection. There are also letters in the collection dealing with the rights of women, including a petition seeking to change the regulations governing female students attending the university. Issues of racial equality are also present in the collection, including correspondence concerning the Bi-Racial Committee in Blacksburg, a group charged with evaluating the off-campus housing available to African American Students.

There are materials on the Virginia Associated Research Center (VARC), including correspondence, reports, and Governing Committee minutes. VARC was an off-campus graduate facility sponsored by Virginia Tech, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia, in cooperation with the Langley Research Center of NASA. It specialized in applied aerospace research and other basic research in related areas.