Archives/1. Administrative
Record Group Term
Identifier: Archives/1
Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:
Advocates for a Common Experience Committee records
Collection
Identifier: A099
Overview
In 1991 Provost Michael Baer laid the groundwork for a committee that would work to create a common experience for all Northeastern University undergraduates. The Advocates for a Common Experience Committee was created after the failure of a similar initiative during 19881990. Working under the direction of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Andrea Leskes, the committee, consisting of faculty, students, administrators, alumni, and trustees, solicited the help of experts to ascertain...
Dates:
1993-1997
International Student Office records
Collection
Identifier: A100
Overview
During the 1970's, Northeastern University worked to make the University more a part of the international community. Many students held coop jobs in foreign countries and Northeastern University staff went abroad to recruit, teach or conduct research. In addition, Northeastern experienced an increase in international student enrollment. Because of the increasing number of international students, the Office of Student Affairs employed a Foreign Student Advisor and expanded services, the goal...
Dates:
1970-2000
Twenty-Five Year Associates records
Collection
Identifier: A083
Overview
In April 1955, President Carl S. Ell invited 46 members of the faculty and staff (active and retired) who had worked together at Northeastern for 25 years to lunch with him at Longwood Towers on May 3, 1955. This marked the first gathering of the group, which would later be formally titled the Twenty-Five-Year Associates. The group was founded "to maintain the close friendly relationships which have contributed to the welfare of the University and the happiness of the Northeastern family...
Dates:
1967-1995; Majority of material found within 1975-1992
Division of Student Affairs records
Collection
Identifier: A084
Overview
The Division of Student Affairs was originally known as the Office of the Dean of Students. In the 1950s, the office comprised a dean of freshmen, dean of women, and dean of men. In 1970, the Office of Dean of Students was reorganized into the Division of Student Affairs, and many of the tasks that had originally been handled directly by the dean and his assistants were separated into departments that reported to the Vice President of Student Affairs. Among these services were counseling and...
Dates:
1933-2008; Majority of material found within 1965-1985
Office of Community Affairs records
Collection
Identifier: A085
Overview
In 1982, Vice President John A. Curry reorganized the existing Office of Community Development into the Office of Community Affairs. Placed under the direction of Joseph D. Warren, the Office of Community Affairs' primary mission was to respond to the concerns of Northeastern University's neighbors. Additionally, the office administered several community outreach programs, such as the annual Thanksgiving food and Christmas toy drives and a scholarship program for Boston Housing Authority...
Dates:
1967-1989; Majority of material found within 1982-1989
Division of Cooperative Education records
Collection
Identifier: A086
Overview
In 1909, Northeastern University (NU) became the second college in the nation to adopt a cooperative plan of education. In that year the Boston YMCA Evening Institute opened its Cooperative Engineering School, offering daytime programs. The cooperative program was later adopted by the Day School of Business, and the program continued to grow as new units were founded with a cooperative component. By 1928, a separate Department of Cooperative Education was established. As interest in...
Dates:
1922-1972
Day Colleges Executive Committee records
Collection
Identifier: A087
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes minutes of the Committee's meetings and interim reports which are interfiled chronologically. Both document various personal petitions, scholastic and disciplinary probation sentences, withdrawal petitions, and hearings for rescheduling exams.
Dates:
1952-1961
University Honors Program records
Collection
Identifier: A088
Overview
The University Honors Program was established on a university-wide basis in 1986 in order to attract and retain the brightest students to Northeastern University. Honors students take several honors courses and have access to cultural events, conferences, internships, and other opportunities. To receive the College Honors Project Distinction (upon completion of the project) or the University Honors Program Distinction (upon completion of the project and six honors courses, including one...
Dates:
1981-2006; Majority of material found within 1997-2005
Office of the Registrar records
Collection
Identifier: A089
Overview
Prior to 1960, Northeastern University was divided into separate schools, each with its own Office of the Registrar. In 1960, the Office of the Registrar of the Basic Colleges introduced a data processing system and began to look at the possibility of bringing together all of the registrars. Merging of these individual offices began in 1963 with Lincoln College and continued through the 1960s with the addition of four new basic colleges between 1960 and 1966. By 1978 all sections of...
Dates:
1920-2000; Majority of material found within 1950-1975
Office of Institutional Advancement records
Collection
Identifier: A090
Overview
In 2001, the office of University Development and the Office of Alumni Relations merged under the name Office of Institutional Advancement. The Office of Institutional Advancement is responsible for overseeing the staff, budget, and operations of all alumni, corporate, and development activities.
Dates:
2001-2007
Warren Conference Center records
Collection
Identifier: A101
Overview
Henry Ellis Warren was an inventor, who developed the first battery-powered clock and the Telechron Clock, the first clock to run on alternating current power. In 1957, his widow, Edith Smith Warren, donated 40 acres of their farm in Ashland, Massachusetts to Northeastern University. The grounds were named the Warren Center for Physical Education and Recreation and hosted an overnight summer camp, Camp Henry Warren, for handicapped and underprivileged children, and children of Northeastern...
Dates:
1971-2000
Northeastern University Press records
Collection
Identifier: A102
Overview
The Northeastern University Press was founded by William Frohlich in 1977. Frohlich had been hired to reorganize the department responsible for printing the University's promotional and informational materials. Frohlich worked with Northeastern University President Kenneth Ryder to create a small academic press that would operate on a small budget and publish scholarly books. President Ryder recognized that a university press would help strengthen the academic reputation of Northeastern and...
Dates:
1976-2005
WRBB-FM. (Radio station: Boston, Mass.) records
Collection
Identifier: A111
Overview
WRBB, Northeastern University's student radio station, was formed as WNEU in 1962 when a student group known as the Husky Hi-liters began broadcasting out of a small room in the basement of Ell Student Center. The Hi-liters were responsible for the University student broadcasting system which informed students of campus events and activities. In December 1962, the station began transmitting on AM radio, expanding its reach to include two dorms and other locations around campus. The following...
Dates:
1966-2006; Majority of material found within 1996-2000
Department of African American Studies records
Collection
Identifier: A118
Overview
The Department of Afro-American Studies was created in 1973 by the College of Liberal Arts in response to the demands of Northeastern's African American students and a nation-wide trend towards the foundation of ethnic studies departments. During the 1970s, the Department worked to establish itself and appeal to a wide range of student interests by offering classes on the African American experience in literature, art, music, history, politics, and film. The Department worked co-operatively...
Dates:
1972-2009
Center for International Higher Education Documentation records
Collection
Identifier: A120
Overview
The Center was established in 1976 to house the research files of Asa Knowles' International Encyclopedia of Higher Education. As part of the internationalization of Northeastern, it served as a hub for international activities, arranging conferences on global topics and hosting foreign visitors. The Center conducted research on topics such as the role of multinational corporations in foreign education, the status of women in academics, and an international survey of cooperative education...
Dates:
1966-1986; Majority of material found within 1977-1985
Department of History. Oral History Project records
Collection
Identifier: A104
Overview
In the spring of 1998 and the spring of 1999, students in HST 4263, an oral history class offered by Northeastern University's University College, completed oral history projects as part of the course curriculum. Taught by Susan Keats, the course introduced students to oral history techniques such as planning, interviewing, auditing, editing, and transcribing. In 2003, University College stopped offering HST 4263. Oral history is now covered as a topic in Public History. Susan Keats received...
Dates:
1998-1999
Western Civilization course notes
Collection
Identifier: A106
Overview
Beginning in the 1972-1973 academic year, Northeastern's history department offered a two-semester course in Western Civilization that surveyed the major ideas and institutions of Western Civilization from ancient times to the present. Faculty-prepared course note packets were compiled for each unit and included selections from primary and secondary sources, study questions, and summaries of major themes covered. These course packets were published by Northeastern beginning in 1972 and in...
Dates:
1972-1982
Center for Effective University Teaching records
Collection
Identifier: A110
Overview
The Office for the Support of Effective Teaching was created in 1989, with the goal of improving the effectiveness of professors in the classroom. At its inception, the office focused on improving course and teacher evaluations, faculty portfolios, and classroom skills through brochures, handbooks and workshops. In 1994, further improvement in undergraduate teaching was discussed in several roundtable forums which resulted in more funding for faculty to attend conferences, tenure decisions...
Dates:
1993-2006
Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis records
Collection
Identifier: A121
Overview
The Barnett Institute of Chemical Analysis and Materials Science was established at Northeastern University in 1973 as the Institute of Chemical Analysis, Applications and Forensic Science. It was founded by Barry Karger and Bill Giessen, professors of chemistry; Norman Rosenblatt, Dean of the College of Criminal Justice; and Karl Weiss, Chair of the Chemistry Department, with a grant from the United States Department of Justice. The Institute spearheaded graduate education and research in...
Dates:
1978-2004; Majority of material found within 1992-2004
Marine Science Center records
Collection
Identifier: A123
Overview
In 1967, the Marine Science Center, then the Marine Science Institute, was founded in order to provide space for master and doctoral level students and visiting scientists to conduct research in ocean chemistry, water quality, and pollution. The Marine Science Center (MSC), located in Nahant, opened on October 29, 1969 as the David F. and Edna F. Edwards Marine Science Laboratory. Renamed in 1982 as the Marine Science and Maritime Studies Center, MSC refocused on marine ecology, behavior,...
Dates:
1946-2006; Majority of material found within 1966-1993
Editorial Marketing and Publications (Feldscher) records
Collection
Identifier: A124
Overview
Karen Feldscher received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Oberlin College. Later she went on to take courses at Northeastern University studying psychology, business, creative writing and HTML. Feldscher worked for over 26 years at Northeastern, beginning in 1984. Working as a senior writer, she edited a research journal at Northeastern, wrote for its alumni magazine and authored several annual reports. At one point she was the editor of The Voice, Northeastern University's in-house...
Dates:
1986-2003
Office of Institutional Research records
Collection
Identifier: A126
Overview
The Office of Institutional Research and Data Administration collects data for and about Northeastern University. Overseen by the Office of the Provost, the statistics the Office compiles are used to analyze and improve the institution as a whole, in order to better benefit students, faculty, alumni, staff and the outside community. Prior to being called the Office of Institutional Research and Data Administration, or OIR, the Office went through several name changes. From the years...
Dates:
1977-2006
Boston-Bouvé College records
Collection
Identifier: M041
Overview
The Boston School of Physical Education was founded in 1913. Co-founder Marjorie Bouvé became the first director. In 1925, citing differences with the corporation, Bouvé resigned from the Boston School of Physical Education and opened the Bouvé School, Incorporated. In 1930, the Boston School of Physical Education and the Bouvé School merged to form the Bouvé-Boston School of Physical Education with Marjorie Bouvé as the director. In 1930, the Bouvé-Boston School of Physical Education...
Dates:
1885-2011; Majority of material found within 1925-1970
Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, 100th anniversary time capsule
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z24-012
Dates:
circa 1977-2002
Northeastern University, World History records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015632117]
Identifier: Z24-013
Dates:
circa 1994-2004
Center for Labor Market Studies records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z15-023
Dates:
ca. 1979-2014
Administrative Computer Services records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015475764,TRF119719810]
Identifier: Z09-027
Dates:
1966-1994
Veterans Memorial Committee records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015477950,TRF119719756]
Identifier: Z10-030
Dates:
2004-2006
Studies in American Fiction records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015477323,TRF119719841]
Identifier: Z10-017
Dates:
1972-1979
Rho Chi Honor Society (Beta Tau Chapter) records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015478610,TRF119719980]
Identifier: Z11-036
Dates:
1965-1998
Career Services records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015475756,TRF119719813]
Identifier: Z09-026
Dates:
1980-1995
Department of Medical Laboratory Science records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z10-007
Dates:
1961-2007
Center for Labor Market Studies records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015479279,TRF119719932]
Identifier: Z13-027
Dates:
1987
Office of University Advancement records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015476887,TRF119701073]
Identifier: Z09-041
Dates:
1999-2009
Department of History (Herman) records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015478487,TRF119719973]
Identifier: Z11-012
Dates:
ca. 1999-2010