Series 4. President's files, 1957-1969.

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National Institute of Labor Education. Series 4. President's files, 1957-1969.

Series 4. President's files, 1957-1969.

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Consist of the files of Ralph N. Campbell (professor, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations) who served as the president of the National Institute of Labor Education (NILE), 1957-1969. Include memoranda and correspondence of Campbell with members of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee concerning routine administrative matters; the dissolution of the NILE corporation; nominations to the Board of Directors; a proposal for Federal City College to continue the NILE local labor studies program and the operation of the Labor Education Materials Center; universities participating in the non-residential study program; comprehensive health planning; a conference on preretirement education; proposals of the Southern Union Staff Training Institute; the Mental Health Project; and the resignation of the executive director. Also, copies of NILE bylaws; and minutes and agenda of subcommittees on government contracts and structure, of the Executive Committee, and of the Board of Directors. Additionally, include memoranda, notes, proposals and reports on NILE projects on leadership training for disadvantaged unionists; a conference on education for public responsibility; Southern Staff Training Institute; a conference on continuing liberal education; human relations education within labor organizations; ethical and moral standards; the Youth Employment Program; school dropouts among members of labor organizations; a survey of workers' education in the United States; the residential staff institute; industrial health and mental health; the non-residential staff institute; the international labor movement; reorganization of NILE; establishment of a central information and advisory service in workers' education; promotion of public aid to workers' education; education for democracy; teaching labor history to local union leaders; membership participation in union affairs; aging and preretirement education; establishment of the Center of Labor Studies at American University; workers' education projects in automation and technological change; education, research and social action projects on labor and the problems of urbanization; the Humanities Center for Liberal Education; and cooperative production of labor films. Also, include correspondence of Campbell with Joseph Mire (executive director, NILE) regarding production of labor films; a proposal for a literacy improvement project for labor movement members; the Youth Employment Program; non-residential study institutes; university participants in the NILE project in preretirement education; leadership training for union staff; contracts with the International Cooperation Administration and the Ford Foundation; proposals to various foundations and unions for grants for research and projects; union and community projects; international affairs; finances; workers' education and adult education; activities of the Extension Advisory Committee; and membership participation in union affairs. Also, correspondence of Campbell with the National Institute of Mental Health on the NILE mental health program for labor; the U.S. Office of Manpower and Automation Training on NILE's Youth Employment Program; the Ford Foundation on grant support for NILE projects; staff of the Industrial Union and Education Departments of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations regarding a grant for workers' education in developing nations; Serafino Romualdi (director, American Institute for Free Labor Development) on the international labor movement and workers' education; and the Field Foundation on NILE's project on inter-group relations.

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