The Archives of Atlantic Federation of Students/Associated Student Unions: A Guide
Collection Number: MS-2-473Collection proccessed and finding aid written by Dale Blake, April 2003.
Finding aid edited and electronic version prepared by Kathryn Harvey, June 2003.
Collection Level Description
Title: Atlantic Federation of Students/Associated Student Unions fonds
Dates: 1921-1978, bulk 1975-1978
Extent: 1.1 m of textual records
The Atlantic Federation of Students was formed in January 1975, as a union of students from 12 Atlantic universities and colleges. Internal and external conflicts led to its disbanding. Student councils in Newfoundland and New Brunswick withdrew from the AFS in 1978. On November 9, 1978, student representatives from 11 Nova Scotia post-secondary institutions met in Halifax to found a provincial organization to replace the AFS.
The AFS had links with the National Union of Students (NUS), which emerged in 1972 from the previous Canadian Union of Students (CUS), formed in the late 1920s. It also had ties to other Canadian student organizations, such as the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) and L'Association Nationale des Etudiants du Quebec (UNE).
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The collection was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives on August 27, 1982, by Don Soucy, former Secretary Coordinator for AFS and past Chairperson of the Nova Scotia caucus of the National Union of Students.
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The fonds contains material from the 1970s on the histories, policies, and structures of the AFS and NUS, as well as other student organizations; information on cutbacks, grants, funding, and student aid; conference proceedings, 1975-78; correspondence of the Halifax Coalition for the Unemployed and other unemployment committees; statistics on university income and expenditures; AFS conference and NUS Central Committee correspondence and minutes, 1975-78.
Conference Proceedings / 1975-1978
Research Materials / 1951-1978, bulk 1970s
History / 1968-1978
Box 7, Folder 19 is closed.
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[Identification of item], Atlantic Federation of Students/Associated Student Union fonds, MS-2-473, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Combined Series and File Level Descriptions
Date:1975-1978
Extent: 50 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
The material consists of policies, constitutions, papers, minutes, and reports from conferences of the AFS and NUS in the 1970s.
Arrangement:
Records are arranged chronologically.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 2.5
Minutes of various conferences
1975
Folder - 3.7
AFS Conference minutes
1975-1976
Folder - 4.3
NUS Central Committee minutes
1975-1977
Folder - 3.5
AFS Conference minutes
1975-1978
Folder - 1.1
National Union of Students/Union Nationale des Etudiants (French/English)
May 1975
Folder - 1.2
NUS
Oct. 16-19, 1975
Folder - 3.1
Minutes
1976-1977
Folder - 1.3
NUS/UNE
May 12-16, 1976
Folder - 1.4
NUS
Oct. 1-3, 1976
Folder - 3.6
AFS Conference papers and policies
1977
Folder - 3.2
AFS Spring 1977 Conference
1977
Folder - 2.4
Conference papers and newsletters
1977-1978
Folder - 1.5
NUS/UNE
May 10-14, 1977
Folder - 2.1-2
NUS
May 10-14, 1977
Folder - 4.4
NUS Central Committee meeting
Dec. 1977
Folder - 2.3
NUS
May 10-14, 1978
Folder - 3.3
AFS
May 4-7, 1978
Folder - 3.4
AFS
Fall 1978
Folder - 4.1
NUS Central Committee letters
Feb. 1976-Oct. 1977
Folder - 4.2
NUS Central Committee letters
Nov. 1977-Mar. 1978
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Date:1951-1978, bulk 1970s
Extent: 37 cm of textual records. -- 1 photograph
Scope and Content:
The material includes documents on student struggles against wage control, 1970s; papers from Halifax Coalition for the Unemployed, 1977-78; protest papers against Bill C-24 (wage control and immigration-1975-1977); papers on student aid from 1970s; statistics of university expenditures, 1921-1978; photograph of students (National Student Day).
Arrangement:
Records are arranged chronologically.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 7.4
University expenditures
1921-1971
Folder - 7.3
University income by sources, statistics
1921-1971
Folder - 7.8
Atlantic university assets-dollar values
n.d.
Folder - 7.7
Cost per student, statistics
1941-1976
Folder - 7.5
University income and expenditures
1951-1976
Folder - 7.6
Government expenditures, statistics
1951-1970
Folder - 6.8
Tuition fees
1963-1976
Folder - 7.9
Weights used in grants distribution
1964, 1978
Folder - 6.7
Financing of education reports and papers
1965, 1971, 1976
Folder - 7.2
University finance-Atlantic papers
1968-1976
Folder - 5.14
Accessibility and Student Aid
1971
Folder - 6.3
Student movement papers on student aid
1971-1977
Folder - 7.10
Death tax and university financing
1972
Folder - 5.15
Report of subcommittee on undergraduate student aid
1974
Folder - 6.1
Student Aid Report
1975-1976?
Folder - 5.10
AFS/NUS/OFS Unemployment papers
1975-1977
Folder - 5.12
Bill C-24 (wage control and immigration)
1975-1977
Folder - 6.2
Canadian student aid in Nova Scotia
1976
Folder - 4.7
National Student Day
1976
Folder - 5.7
Wage control-general analysis
1976-1977
Folder - 6.5
Student Advocate newspapers
1976-1978
Folder - 7.1
Financing of education-student movement papers
1976-1982
Folder - 6.6
AFS/NUS Press clippings
1977
Folder - 5.4
Committees of Concern for the Unemployed
1977
Folder - 5.2
HCU-press clippings
1977
Folder - 4.6
NSCAD Fee
1977
Folder - 5.6
Other unemployment committees/graduate employment
1977
Folder - 5.5
Unemployment committees-early history overview
1977
Folder - 4.8
Halifax Coalition for the Unemployed-minutes
1977-1978
Folder - 4.9
Halifax Coalition for the Unemployed-correspondence
1977-1978
Folder - 4.5
Cutbacks-struggle
Spring 1977 and 1978
Folder - 5.3
Coalition analysis
1978
Folder - 5.8
Fighting back against wage control
1978
Folder - 5.1
Halifax Coalition for the Unemployed-leaflets and posters
1978
Folder - 5.9
Halifax strikes
1978
Folder - 5.13
NUS National Question
1978
Folder - 5.11
Operation Liberty-fight against political repression
1978
Folder - 6.4
Joyce Andres Memorial Fund
1979
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Date:1968-1978
Extent: Approx. 23 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
The series comprises historical material of the AFS, NUS, ANEQ, OFS, BCSF, and other part-time and graduate student organizations, 1970s; organizational instructions; background information on staff and CUPE, and the Canadian University Press, 1977-1978; Maritime Provinces Higher Education briefs, 1977.
Arrangement:
Records are arranged chronologically.
Access Restrictions:
Box 7, Folder 19 is closed.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 7.12
Canadian Union of Students
1968
Folder - 7.14
How to Organize
ca. 1970s
Folder - 8.5
International students-AFS/NUS
ca. 1970s
Folder - 8.11
OFS Educational system
ca. 1970s
Folder - 8.4
International students-general
1970-1977
Folder - 8.1
AFS History
1973-1977
Folder - 8.10
OFS History
1974-1977
Folder - 8.8
Ontario Federation of Students-- Financing of Post-secondary Education
1974-1979
Folder - 8.12
OFS-common fronts
1975
Folder - 8.9
OFS Education Cutbacks
1975
Folder - 8.13
OFS-staffing/tenure
1975-1976
Folder - 8.3
ANEQ (L'Association Nationale des Etudiants du Quebec)
1975-1977
Folder - 7.16
NUS staff-CUPE contract
1975-1977
Folder - 7.19
Personal application form
1975-1977
Removed from Box 7, Folder 16. Closed
Folder - 8.6
International Students-NSCAD
1976
Folder - 8.7
Accessibility to Education
1976-1977
Folder - 6.9
NUS History
1976-1978
Folder - 8.2
Student Movement History
1976-1978
Folder - 7.17
Briefs-Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission
1977
Folder - 7.18
Briefs on higher education
1977
Folder - 8.14
British Columbia Student Federation
1977
Folder - 7.13
Canadian University Press
1977
Folder - 7.11
Graduate student organizations
1977
Folder - 7.15
Staff-general
1977-1978
Folder - 8.15
Part-time student organizations
1978
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