UW-Milwaukee Peace Corps Training Center Records
1960-1970
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Peace Corps Training
Center
UWM Archival Collection 66
9.4 cubic ft. (10 boxes and 1 oversize scrapbook)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr.
(Map)
Records of the center's director and directors of the various
projects. The center was a federally designated educational institution for Peace Corps
training programs. Particular projects, conducted between 1962 and 1967, were open to
students of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as other universities for academic
credit, fellowships and assistantships. The collection contains records of the following
projects: Brazil 6 (1963); Brazil 12 (1964); Brazil Rural Community Action (1964); Columbia
and Panama (1963); Ecuador 6 (1963); Ghana (1967); India 4 (1963); India 5A (1963); India 8
(1964); Kenya I (1964); Malawi (1967); Peru (1962-63); Peru 12 (1963-64). The federal
government assigned numbers to projects to distinguish between grants issued to universities
participating in the Peace Corps.
Project records typically contain a bibliography
of materials for trainees; bulletins of general information for trainees; correspondence
from various project and training directors to university staff and volunteers regarding
training, functions and progress of programs; instructions for trainees; news releases; a
project reports; training program rosters; program syllabi and schedules of events; and
information on volunteer support, graduation, medical concerns, technical training, and
travel.
The Brazil general files include six audio reel tapes of instructional
material and interviews of Peace Corps volunteers and staff. Also included are general files
relating to the projects and Peace Corps activities in other countries, general
correspondence files dating from 1960 to 1968 and statements of Peace Corps policy. Material
predating 1963 regards the establishment of the first training projects at UWM. Contains
press releases, an evaluation study, reports, staff conferences, Service organization
documents, copies of the Service journal, a publication
prepared by staff and trainees at UWM for individual programs and a proclamation from
Milwaukee Mayor Henry W. Maier. Also contains restricted files on students (UWM and non-UWM)
who served in the Peace Corps.
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