Legislative involvement

This collection contains documents that are related to or from the group COPUS either nationally or on the Wesleyan campus. The first folder contains information on the group, including statistics and information on Wesleyan's financial aid policies. The second folder contains more in-depth documents on COPUS involvement on the Wesleyan campus. COPUS collected information on professor course loads, teacher evaluations, memos to the board of trustees, and correspondence between Wesleyan faculty and the President of the University. The third folder contains mainly information on COPUS's involvement in Washington, D.C. and lobbying for change in the 1980s budget cuts. The folder includes letters written to various state representatives as well as various press on the group and nation-wide newsletters. The collection includes documents such as notes and flyers from seminars held by COPUS on campus as well as Wesleyan and Middletown-area press on the group's activities.