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Records of an Mennonite Board of Missions ministry formed in the late 1950s with the goals of creating awareness of the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, encouraging Mennonite students to form Mennonite fellowships at secular universities, helping Mennonite students maintain ties to other Mennonite students, and providing spiritual support to Mennonite undergraduate and graduate students.  Created as the Student Services Committee, the ministry's name was changed in 1978 to the Student and Young Adult Services Committee.

Records include meeting minutes, reports of visits made to Mennonite student fellowships, reports on the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, policies, newsletters, speakers' bureau information, and miscellaneous materials.  Researchs will find information about the Mennonite student housing cooperative in Philadelphia in these records.

Includes questionnaires returned by (old) Mennonite Church pastors regarding college, university, and graduate students in their congregations during the 1962-1963 academic year.  Also includes the student survey reports from the (old) Mennonite Church, the General Conference Mennonite Church, and the Mennonite Brethren for the 1964-1965 academic year.

Miscellaneous correspondence to and from various leaders of the Student and Young Adult Services Committee, including Virgil J. Brenneman, Al (Albert) Meyer, Mervin Gingerich, and Paul Erb.  Of special note are Paul Erb's handwritten notes regarding the opinions of various Indiana-Michigan Conference congregations about Goshen College, circa 1965.

Records of an Mennonite Board of Missions ministry formed in the late 1950s with the goals of creating awareness of the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, encouraging Mennonite students to form Mennonite fellowships at secular universities, helping Mennonite students maintain ties to other Mennonite students, and providing spiritual support to Mennonite undergraduate and graduate students.  Created as the Student Services Committee, the ministry's name was changed in 1978 to the Student and Young Adult Services Committee.

These records contain subject files produced by or pertaining to this committee from 1970-1990.