Minutes of Collegium meeting (July 17, 1970)

The minutes for the Collegium Committee of Springfield College meeting that took place on July 17, 1970. The minutes are four pages long. The meeting describes the testimony of Attorney Charles Healey III followed by a discussion of the report presented by the Task Force on Re-Admission of the Black Students, including an interview with John Neumann and a discussion on the Larry Libow case.The Springfield College Collegium report was published on August 31, 1970. Meetings to write the report were held from May 1970 through August 1970. The Collegium consisted of a group of 32 elected students and faculty, as well as administrators, trustees and alumni. The Collegium was formed after the Black Student protests and campus building takeovers from 1968 to 1970. In addition to the issues that these events revealed, there were everyday structural problems and financial issues at the college that needed to be addressed. The Collegium was designed to study these campus issues and draw up recommendations to fix these issues for the Springfield College President and appropriate campus entities