Records of the Department of African-American Student Affairs 1966-2001
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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Minority Student Affairs
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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of African American Student Affairs
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The history of the Department of African American Student Affairs (AASA) at Northwestern University dates back to the mid-1960s. A Black Student wrote a letter to the Northwestern Daily protesting the low enrollment of African-American students in the University. In response, 54 Black freshmen enrolled in the University for the fall of 1966. The University used funding from the Wieboldt Foundation and support from the Higher Education Act of 1965, to institute a program called th...
Northwestern university
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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...