Benjamin A. Ring Papers, 1951-1992

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Personal

The first series contains a draft of Ring's autobiography, "How I Lived and What I Lived For", a transcript of a June 1975 interview with Ring, materials related to Ring's graduate studies, and correspondence.  Also included is the text of a poem entitled "Planting a Tree to Honor Ben Ring." The poem was written by Dean Bernard O'Kelly, and was read by the group assembled at the planting of said tree.

Box 1

Folder 1: "How I Lived and What I Lived For: an Intellectual Autobiography" by Ben Ring

Folder 2: Transcript of Interview with Benjamin Ring by Doug Crockett, UND Assistant Archivist (49 pages), June 1975

Folder 3: Miscellaneous correspondence, memorandum, and reports, 1960-1992

Folder 4: Papers written by Benjamin Ring in Graduate School

Folder 5: "Hume: Skeptic as Historian" by Benjamin Ring (draft of dissertation)

Folder 6: Materials from workshops and conferences, 1964-1977

Box 3

Folder 21: "Planting a Tree to Honor Ben Ring," Poem Written by Dean Bernard O'Kelly: May 15, 1992.

Series 2: Professional/UND

Series 2 contains Ring's Academic Supplements, promotion files, course syllabi, travel requests, as well as files related to the "AGORA of the Air" graduate school, the honors program, the Indian Education Committee, and the Human Relations Committee.

Box 1

Folder 7: Academic supplements, 1967-87.

Folder 8: Promotion file, selected writings, 1962-82.

Folder 9: Promotion file, student materials, 1979-82.

Folder 10: Promotion file, peer evaluations, 1981-83.

Folder 11: Promotion file, recommendations, 1982.

Folder 12: Promotion file, academic records, 1982.

Folder 13: Promotion file, tenure information, 1973-89.

Folder 14: Promotion file, evaluations, 1975-90.

Folder 15: Form F.

Folder 16: Course syllabi, 1981-88.

Folder 17: Philosophy Dept. reports & memos, 1978-83.

Folder 18: Faculty lecture: "Hume and the Use of History," 1973.

Folder 19: Travel requests, 1976-90.

Folder 20: Report on institutional goals inventory, ca. 1978.

Folder 21: Faculty letter to the president, 1965.

Folder 22: Learning Systems literature, 1969-70.

Folder 23: Graduate School, Philosophy courses, 1959-64.

Folder 24: Graduate School, memoranda, 1961-71.

Folder 25: Graduate School, Ring resignation, 1982.

Folder 26: Honors Program, correspondence & memos, 1975- 84.

Folder 27: Honors Program, Vietnam Colloquium, 1980-81.

Folder 28: Human Relations Committee, correspondence & memos, 1972-75.

Folder 29: "AGORA of the Air," correspondence, memos, grants, 1981-85.

Folder 30: "AGORA of the Air," correspondence, bank statements, reports, 1980-81.

Folder 31: Indian Education Committee, 1972-74.

Series 3: Professional Associations

This series consists of materials related to the ND Committee on the Humanities, ND Council for Higher Education, State Board of Higher Education, AAUP, and the American Council on Education.

Box 1

Folder 32: NDEA, controversial speech by Ring, reactions, OCT 1971.

Folder 33: ND Humanities Council, correspondence, applications, agendas, 1965-85.

Folder 34: ND Committee on Humanities, members, 1972.

Folder 35: ND Committee on Humanities, correspondence, 1972.

Folder 36: ND Committee on Humanities, correspondence, 1972-74.

Folder 37: ND Committee on Humanities, papers & proposals, 1972.

Folder 38: ND Committee on Humanities, applications & proposals, 1972-75.

Folder 39: ND Committee on Humanities, United Plainsmen Association, 1975.

Folder 40: ND Committee on Humanities, Upper Mid-West, 1974.

Folder 41: Tri-State Humanities Project, memos, reports, conference papers, 1972-74.

Box 2

Folder 1: American Council on Education, reports.

Folder 2: American Council on Education, Conference on College Teacher Preparation, 1958.

Folder 3: American Council on Education, bibliography.

Folder 4: AAUP, bylaws, 1966-67.

Folder 5: AAUP, correspondence reports, memos, 1948, 1965-74.

Folder 6: AAUP, committee reports, 1967-75.

Folder 7: AAUP, academic freedom, 1964, 1968-69.

Folder 8: AAUP, ethics & grievances, 1970-71.

Folder 9: AAUP, collective bargaining, 1972.

Folder 10: AAUP, membership lists, 1967-74.

Folder 11: ND Council for Higher Education, constitution, 1970-71.

Folder 12: NDCHE, correspondence, 1972.

Folder 13: NDCHE, reports, 1973.

Folder 14: NDCHE, conference, 1969-70.

Folder 15: State Board of Higher Education, correspondence, 1970-71.

Folder 16: SBHE, agendas, resolutions, notes, 1966-67, 1970-71.

Folder 17: SBHE, membership lists, 1967, 1969.

Folder 18: SBHE, "Higher Education Act," 1965.

Folder 19: SBHE, studies & reports, 1968, 1972.

Folder 20: SBHE, Education USA newsletter, 1967-74.

Series 4: Summer Programs

The fourth series consists of materials the Institute on Student Involvement (ISI) and National Science Foundation (NSF) summer institute for gifted high school students. ISI was a six-week program that Ring attended in 1969. Held at Claremont Colleges, California, ISI brought together about 35 deans and professors from around the nation to study "sources of student discontent." ISI documents include schedules, discussion topics, Ring's notes, correspondence, questionnaires, reading lists, poetry, news clippings, articles, and staff & participant rosters.

The NSF documents relate to a summer institute for gifted high school students that was hosted by UND in the early 1960s. NSF materials include correspondence, proposals & grants, budget, expenditures, as well as student applications, evaluations, and publications. Documents are arranged chronologically.

Box 2

Folder 21: Institute for Student Involvement, studies & reports, 1960, 1967-68.

Folder 22: ISI, correspondence, 1969.

Folder 23: ISI, schedules, 1969.

Folder 24: ISI, special topics, 1967-69.

Folder 25: ISI, notes & general information, ca. 1969.

Folder 26: ISI, participants & staff, 1969.

Folder 27: ISI, clippings, articles, pamphlets, 1969.

Folder 28: ISI, questionnaire on campus power structure, 1969.

Folder 29: ISI, proposals, 1969.

Folder 30: ISI, Deena Metzger pornography case, 1969.

Folder 31: National Science Foundation, correspondence, 1963-65.

Folder 32: NSF, proposal & grant, 1963.

Folder 33: NSF, form letters, 1963.

Folder 34: NSF, portrait, 1963.

Folder 35: NSF, class assignments, 1963.

Folder 36: NSF, readings, ca. 1963.

Folder 37: NSF, director's meeting, 1964.

Folder 38: NSF, budget, 1964.

Folder 39: NSF, expenditures, 1964.

Folder 40: NSF, form letters, 1964.

Folder 41: NSF, information requests & mailings, 1964.

Folder 42: NSF, participants, 1964.

Folder 43: NSF, completed applications, 1964.

Folder 44: NSF, accepted applications, A-C, 1964-65.

Folder 45: NSF, accepted applications, D-G, 1964-65.

Folder 46: NSF, accepted applications, H-K, 1964-65.

Folder 47: NSF, accepted applications, L-O, 1964-65.

Folder 48: NSF, accepted applications, P-R, 1964-65.

Folder 49: NSF, accepted applications, S, 1964-65.

Folder 50: NSF, accepted applications, T-Z, 1964-65.

Folder 51: NSF, rejections, 1964.

Folder 52: NSF, awards banquet, 1964.

Folder 53: NSF, Pre-Collegiate Science/Math Program, 1964.

Folder 54: NSF, proposal & grant, 1965.

Folder 55: NSF, director's meeting, 1965.

Box 3

Folder 1: NSF, expenditures, 1965.

Folder 2: NSF, form letters, 1965.

Folder 3: NSF, registration, 1965.

Folder 4: NSF, student evaluations, 1965.

Folder 5: NSF, NOVA, student publication, 1963-64.

Folder 6: NSF, brochures, 1963-65.

Folder 7: NSF, publicity, 1963-65.

Series 5: Underground and Student Press

Contains several student newspapers (1964-70). Also included in this series are documents related to a variety of free press issues, such as the ACLU, Committee Concerned About Vietnam, CORE, UND Indian Association, and Young Democrats. Newspapers and organizations are arranged alphabetically.

Box 3

Folder 8: "Charge," 1970.

Folder 9: "Eccentric," 1970.

Folder 10: "Ignite," 1968-69.

Folder 11: "It Isnt," 1964.

Folder 12: "The Sphere Review," 1969.

Folder 13: "Synanon," 1968-69.

Folder 14: ACLU related materials, 1971.

Folder 15: Committee Concerned About Vietnam, 1967.

Folder 16: Congress Of Racial Equality, 1963-64.

Folder 17: Protest poems.

Folder 18: Special events, 1970.

Folder 19: UND Indian Association, "OMINICYA," ca. 1970.

Folder 20: Young Democrats, 1970-74.