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Record Group: 4 UW
Record Sub-Group: 32
Records Title: UM System; President's Office; Correspondence, Administrative, and Miscellaneous Records
Dates: 1954-2007
Volume: 32 and 1/2 cubic feet, 40.63 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
This Sub-Group contains administrative records created or received by the University of Missouri President's Office. Included in the Sub-Group are correspondence, reports, brochures, booklets, speeches, legal documents, budget data, budgets, newspaper clippings, minutes of meetings, questionnaires, study results, newsletters, property leases, copies of federal and state legislation, petitions, blueprints, architectural drawings, news releases, and copies of University of Missouri Board of Curators policies. Also included are Board of Curators meeting agendas and supporting materials, as well as materials relating to events hosted at the President's residence and reception center at Providence Point.
Series Descriptions:
Former Series #1 UW:4/0/1
UM-System; President's Office; Miscellaneous Files; General Correspondence and Administrative Files
This Series has been enlarged to a full inventory. Please follow this link to reach the inventory. This Record Sub-Group contains records received or created by the University of Missouri President's Office, (1932-1970). In addition to correspondence, this Series includes reports, budgets, brochures, and speeches.
Series 2. - UW:4/0/2 (A77-30)
This Series contains records received or created by the University of Missouri President's Office (1966-1971). In addition to correspondence, this Series includes reports to the President concerning degree programs, campus planning, enrollment, salaries, budgets, student discipline, political activities of students and faculty, professional educational organizations, and gifts and grants to the University.
(11 c.f.: 008224, 008284, 008344, 008346, 008401, 008403, 008410, 008466, 008467, 008522, 008570)
Note to Researcher: Series 2 contains some records which are confidential and restricted. See the restrictions note at the end of this finding aid.
Note to Archivist: The box lists for this Series are available online. They can be accessed by following this link.
Series 3. - UW:4/0/10 (A75-30)
This Series contains records received or created by the University of Missouri President's Office (1954-1974). Included is correspondence with federal and state agencies and organizations such as the Association of American Universities, the American Council on Education, the American Association of University Professors, the Missouri Commission on Higher Education, and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Topics of this correspondence include budgets, appropriations, grants, overproduction of new Ph.D.'s, problems of students, enrollments, long range planning (campus, state-wide, and national), R.O.T.C., campus unrest, educational lobbying, and the purposes and objectives of higher education.
(6 c.f., 007936, 007976, 007980, 008058, 008155, 008156)
Note to Researcher: Series 3 contains some records which are confidential and restricted. See the restrictions note at the end of this finding aid.
Note to Archivist: The box lists for this Series are available online. They can be accessed by following this link.
Former Series #4 UW:4/0/7
UM System: President's Office; Correspondence and Administrative Records: 1919-1969
This summary description has been enlarged to a full inventory. Please follow this link to reach the inventory. This new Sub-Group contains administrative records received or created by the University of Missouri President's Office (1919-1969).
Series 5. - UW:4/0/9 (A75-30)
This Series contains records of the University of Missouri President's Office pertaining to meetings of the University of Missouri Board of Curators (1970-1973). Included are agendas for Board of Curators meetings, correspondence with individual Curators, and information on matters to be addressed at meetings. Also included in this Series is background information concerning meetings of the University of Missouri Board of Curators Finance Committee.
(6 c.f., 041979, 042042, 042046, 042064, 042075, 046076)
Note to Archivist: The box lists for this Series are available online. They can be accessed by following this link.
Series 6. - UW:4/0/11 (A75-63)
This Series contains records of the University of Missouri President's Office (1956-1971). The records in this Series are from Irvin Coyle, Assistant to the President of the University of Missouri, and the bulk of them were created or received by him during the tenure of President Elmer Ellis, 1954-1966. Included are correspondence, reports, and studies, and questionnaires dealing with such topics as enrollments, degrees granted, occupations chosen by graduates, space needs of the University, junior college planning, Missouri Association of Colleges and Universities meetings and publications, accreditation of the University, and educational planning by the Missouri state government.
(2 c.f., 072164, 072165)
Series 7. - UW:4/0/12 (A77-36)
This Series contains records of the University of Missouri President's Office (1966-1976). Included are correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes received or created during the tenures of University of Missouri Presidents John C. Weaver (1966-1970) and C. Brice Ratchford (1970-1976). Topics include the concerns of parents and students, budget hearings before the Missouri legislature, meetings of the Council on Public Higher Education, meetings of the Missouri Commission of Higher Education, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, the St. Louis Research Council, the Freedom of Information Foundation, and the American Council on Education. Also included in this Series are statements to the press made by President C. Brice Ratchford.
(6 c.f., 009447, 009449, 009453, 009540, 009650, 009722)
Note to Archivist: The box lists for this Series are available online. They can be accessed by following this link.
Series 8. - UW:4/0/13 (A98-3)
This Series contains records of the University of Missouri President's Office (1986-1990). Included are correspondence, invitations, programs, guest lists, and planning records relating to events such as breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and receptions held at the University of Missouri President's residence and reception center at Providence Point, in Columbia, Missouri.
(1/3 c.f., UMLD1; 1/6 c.f., UMLD1)
Series 9. - UW:4/0/14 (A20-70)
This Series contains miscellaneous administrative and other records created and received in the University of Missouri Office of the President, (1984-2007). The records include appointment calendars for C. Peter Magrath, George Russell, Melvin George, Elson S. Floyd, and Gordon H. Lamb, as well as miscellaneous correspondence and other files.
(1 c.f., 080789)
Note to Archivist: The box list for this Series is available online. It can be accessed by following this link.
Series 10. - UW:4/0/15 (A23-70)
This Series contains miscellaneous records from the University of Missouri Office of the President, (ca. 1920, 1984-1988). The records consist a scrapbook of newspaper and other clippings as well as printed and duplicated material pertaining to the University of Missouri System from June 1984 until January 1988. The clippings extend from the period following President James Olson's retirement into the tenure of President Peter Magrath. Also included in Series 10 are three mounted photographic prints from the office of Jamieson and Spearl Architects depicting the Physics Building (later Stewart Hall; photograph by Harman, St. Louis) on the MU campus, University Hall on the Washington University campus in St. Louis, and a sketch of the Men's Dormitory Group at Pomona College, Claremont, California, (1920). The three mounted photographs may have been part of a Jamieson and Spearl portfolio retained by the University's administration during the 1920s.
(1/3 c.f., UMLD1; OSF, Ellis)
Restrictions Note: The Archives of the University of Missouri-Columbia is required by law and Board of Curator's policy to restrict access to some files and information. Student records are held as confidential under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and by University policy. Faculty promotion and tenure records and Academic Personnel files are restricted for 75 years, or the lifetime of the individual. All grievance, disciplinary, and medical records are treated as confidential files. Consultations with legal counsel, both in-house and external, are protected by the attorney/client privilege and will not be released.
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