July 13, 1927, Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
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- July 13, 1927, Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
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- [Content Warning: Please be advised that the language related to race used in this excerpt from the Butler University Board of Directors (Board of Trustees) meeting minutes is racist and offensive and may cause distress. We are providing record of this excerpt for historical documentation and transparency on the issue of the quota at Butler University. If the viewer wishes to skip the entry, please move to the next part of the exhibit.]July 13, 1927, Board of Directors Meeting Minutes. The quota on Black students at Butler University ran from 1927—a year prior to the University’s move to its current campus—until 1948. The University’s Board of Directors meeting minutes provide no detail behind why the quota was started. This excerpt is from July 13, 1927, when the quota was instituted: "The problem of taking care of colored students at the college was again discussed and on motion of Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Irwin, the following resolution was unaminously [sic] adopted. RESOLVED: That all colored students who may be enrolled at Butler College at this time except those in the College of Religion shall be permitted – if they make proper grades – to graduate, and that each year, beginning with the term of September 1927, not over ten additional colored students may be admitted. Before being admitted all such students shall pass such examinations as may be required by a committee of the faculty to be appointed by the president, and to include the Dean of men, the Dean of women and the director of physical education."
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- Butler University
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- Image
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- Board of Trustees Records (UA01.01), Special Collections, Rare Books, and University Archives, Irwin Library, Butler University
- Site pages
- A New Campus and New Hardships
