Contains the administrative records of the Youngstown State University Ohio Education Association from 1971 to the present, including minutes of meetings, committee reports, financial records, and correspondence. Files that may be of particular interest include: The "Poddar Case," where a professor (and founding member of the YSU-OEA) was dismissed from his position, but only after a faculty-wide referendum regarding his fate. The Union Referendum of 1972, a somewhat acrimonious and heated election through which the YSU-OEA won its position as the sole advocate of faculty rights at Youngstown State University. "OEA Local Elections," a file which documents the surprisingly "rough and tumble "campaigns for chapter leadership.
