The collection consists of three series: HISTORICAL INFORMATION, CORRESPONDENCE, and SUBJECT FILES. The HISTORICAL INFORMATION series contains a small number of mimeographed mailings which describe the New University Conference and its functions at various times in its history. CORRESPONDENCE files include letters regarding the Cuba project, involving trips to Cuba and research for a special newsletter issue on the Cuban nation; internal education correspondence, containing discussions of summer training sessions for officers and political literature for internal consumption; letters concerning the “Open Up the Schools” project for secondary schools; and a file detailing the severing of ties of cooperation between NUC and the Progressive Labor Party. Correspondence related to anti-war activity includes general letters, contact with the Montreal Deserters Committee in the Montreal Project, and preparations for the “Spring Offensive” against firms producing war materials for the Vietnam war. Also included in this series is correspondence from regional organizers, from Region One in the Northeast to Region Six, and on the West Coast. One file, the JOIN Community Union file, does not pertain directly to NUC activity, but instead covers the community organizing efforts in Chicago of a predecessor New Left organization.
Materials in SUBJECT FILES generally cover the same topical and organizational groupings as the Correspondence. Of particular interest in these files, however, are financial records, publications, and extensive mailing lists of NUC; national committee and convention agenda, notes, memoranda, and reports; lists of individuals in NUC's Speakers Bureau, and files of the Women's Caucus, especially reading lists, curriculum descriptions, and publications of women's studies programs across the nation.
