Hunter Ripley Rawlings papers
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, subject files, administrative working papers, and other records of the President of Cornell University.
Dates
- 1995-2006.
Creator
- Rawlings, Hunter R. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:
Access restricted to the permission of the office of origin. Consult the University Archivist. Restriction reviews may take up to a month for completion.
Use Restrictions:
Due to the nature of electronic records, use of all born digital content on physical media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, zip disks, and external hard drives is limited to digital copies.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Hunter R. Rawlings III was a 1966 graduate of Haverford College, with honors in classics, and received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1970. His scholarly publications include a book, The Structure of Thucydides’ History (Princeton University Press, 1981). After serving as president of the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1995, Rawlings began his appointment as Cornell University’s president. A national spokesperson for higher education, he has served as chair of the Ivy Council of Presidents and of the Association of American Universities, and was a member of the American Council on Education board. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of managers of his alma mater, Haverford College, and on the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He also serves on the boards of the National Humanities Center and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
At the conclusion of his presidency in 2003, Rawlings was elected president emeritus and began serving as a full-time professor in Cornell’s Departments of Classics and History. He was then was appointed by the Board of Trustees to serve as interim president of Cornell after Jeffrey Lehman resigned as the university’s president. In 2016, he once again took on the role of interim president upon the death of President Elizabeth Garrett.
See the Cornell Office of the President website for more information about the Presidency of Hunter R. Rawlings III.
Extent
130.4 cubic feet. (130.4 cubic feet.)
987 megabytes. (987 megabytes.)
Abstract
Correspondence, subject files, administrative working papers, and other records of the President of Cornell University.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Guide to boxes 1-102
Series II. Papers
Boxes 94; 103-104; 107-128
Series III. Interim President Papers (June 2005-July 2006)
Speeches
Box 130, 131
Series IV. Audio and Video
Boxes 105-106
Physical Description
Correspondence, Manuscripts, Publications, Reports
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- August 8, 2008
- EAD encoding:
- Rebecca Keating August 5, 2008Evan Fay Earle December 2008
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, September 2018
General
The Cornell University Archives Web Archive has a collection copies of speeches and essays given by President Rawlings here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/2566/20140616012613/http://cornell-classic.univcomm.cornell.edu/president/10_rawlings/speeches.cfm#
- Cornell University -- : Presidents.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- August 2008
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu