Correspondence and administrative records : [finding aid]

The Resource Correspondence and administrative records : [finding aid]

Label

Correspondence and administrative records : [finding aid]

Title remainder

[finding aid]

Title variation

UM System: President's Office; correspondence and administrative records

Language

eng

Summary

Finding aid for collection containing records received or created by the President's Office of the University of Missouri (1919-1969). Included in the Subgroup are correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, budgets, reports, newspaper clippings, brochures, booklets, professional journals, speeches, minutes of meetings, blueprints, architectural drawings, and news releases. Among the topics in the Subgroup are administration of student affairs, personnel, and establishment of the four-campus University of Missouri-System. Many of the records in the Subgroup involve the relations of the President's Office with the Deans of the various colleges and schools. Among topics covered in the Subgroup are the selection of deans and include evaluations of potential candidates and reference. Also included in the Subgroup is correspondence with deans, the comptroller, various committee chairs, associations, and foundations and members of the University of Missouri Board of Curators. Among the organizations that the President's Office communicated with are the Missouri Commission on Higher Education, Governor's Committee on Education beyond the High School, Governor's Council on Higher Education, American Council on Education, Educational Advisory Council, President Richard Nixon's Task Force on Priorities in Higher Education, National Association of State Universities, Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions, State Historical Society of Missouri, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Learning, and the National Science Foundation. The Subgroup also includes correspondence with United States Senators Stuart Symington, Edward V. Long, and other Senators and Representatives as well as Governor John M. Dalton. During the period of these records, two commemorations were held: School of Journalism's 50th Anniversary Celebration in 1958 and a Centennial of the American Association of Land-grant Colleges and State Universities in 1962

Cataloging source

MUU

Characteristic

updating web site

Entry convention

integrated entry

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Context

Context of Correspondence and administrative records : [finding aid]

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