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[Identification of item], Radford University Board of Visitors Papers, Radford University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. RU Board of Visitors Records, Accession # RU 1.1.1-5, University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University
Given by Board of Visitors.
Additional accruals are expected and are kept current with recent Board of Visitors meetings.
Given by Radford University Board of Visitors to Radford University Archives, which acts as the repository for all such documents.
Processed by Jim Gilson, Aaron Spelbring, and Gene Hyde, c. 2000-present. Additional updating and conversion of finding aid by Kimberly Moore, 2009-2010.
As part of the 1910 legislation establishing the State Normal and Industrial School for Women, a Board of Trustees was appointed to oversee the activities of the school. In 1913, President John Preston McConnell sent a one-page report to the Board, beginning an uninterrupted link of information from the President to various oversight agencies that continues to this day. Subsequent to the original Board of Trustees, the school's operations were supervised by the Virginia Normal School Board (1915-1924), the Virginia State Teachers College Board (1925-1939), the State Board of Education (1940-1944), the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1945-1964), the Board of Visitors of Radford College (1965-1978) and the Board of Visitors of Radford University (1979-present).
Reports, minutes, correspondence, and printed materials, 1910-present, created in the conduct of affairs of the Radford University Board of Visitors and its predecessors document the organization's work in governing and oversight of Radford University and its place in Virginia's higher education system.
The Board of Visitors documents are arranged in five series, with a small initial sub-series documenting enabling legislation, representing reports (1913-present), supplementary materials (1916-present), minutes, correspondence, and general materials presented to the Board of Visitors (and their predecessors).
Reports to the Board of Visitors makes up the largest series. Reports are prepared by the Office of the President and are presented to the Board. Supplementary Materials include correspondence, extraneous reports, and printed materials presented to the Board documenting issues reflected in the Reports. Minutes (1910-1970, 1980, 1994-present) document activities in Board meetings. The Correspondence series contains a sporadic documentation of correspondence between Board members and the Office of the President. The smallest series, General Materials, holds Board handbooks and information regarding Radford's merger with Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Series 0: Enabling Legislation
Box 1: Enabling Legislation
Series 1 Reports
Box 1.1.1 Reports, 1913- 1928
Box 1.1.2 Reports, 1929- 1937
Box 1.1.3 Reports, 1938- Feb. 13, 1945
Box 1.1.4 Reports, May 15, 1945- 1956
Box 1.1.5 Reports, 1957- 1960
Box 1.1.6 Reports, 1961- 1965
Box 1.1.7 Reports, 1966- 1969
Box 1.1.8 Reports, 1969- 1971
Box 1.1.9 Reports, 1972- May 1973
Box 1.1.10 Reports, August 1973- February 1975
Box 1.1.11 Reports, May 1975- August 1976
Box 1.1.12 Reports, November 1976- February 1978
Box 1.1.13 Reports, May 1978- May 1979
Box 1.1.14 Reports, August 1979- August 1980.
Box 1.1.15 Reports, August 1980
Box 1.1.16 Reports, November 1980- May 1981
Box 1.1.17 Reports, August 1981- May 1982
Box 1.1.18 Reports, August 1982- March 1983
Box 1.1.19 Reports, May 1983- November 1983
Box 1.1.20 Reports, March 1984- February 1985
Box 1.1.21 Reports, April 1985- April 1986
Box 1.1.22 Reports, August 1986- September 1987
Box 1.1.23 Reports, November 1987- August 1988
Box 1.1.24 Reports, November 1988- August 1989
Box 1.1.25 Reports, November 1989- August 1990
Box 1.1.26 Reports, November 1990- August 1991
Box 1.1.27 Reports, November 1991- August 1992
Box 1.1.28 Reports, October 1992- August 1993
Box 1.1.29 Reports, November 1993- May 1994
Box 1.1.30 Reports, August 1994- October 1995
Box 1.1.31 Reports, December 1995- February 1997
Box 1.1.32 Reports, May 1997- August 1999
Box 1.1.33 Reports, November 1999- August 2001
Box 1.1.34 Reports, November 2001- May 2, 2003
Box 1.1.35 Reports, August 2003- May 2004
Box 1.1.36 Reports, August 2004- May 2007
Box 1.1.37 Reports, May 2007- November 2009
Series 2: Supplementary Reports
Box 1.2.1 Supplementary Reports, 1916- 1943
Box 1.2.2 Supplementary Reports, 1944- 1971
Box 1.2.3 Supplementary Reports, 1972- Feb. 1974
Box 1.2.4 Supplementary Reports, June 1974- June 1976
Box 1.2.5 Supplementary Reports, September 1976- July 1978
Box 1.2.6 Supplementary Reports, September 1978- October 1979
Box 1.2.7 Supplementary Reports, March 1980- May 1981
Box 1.2.8 Supplementary Reports, September 1981- May 1982
Box 1.2.9 Supplementary Reports, September 1982- 1984
Box 1.2.10 Supplementary Reports, March 1985- April 1986
Box 1.2.11 Supplementary Reports, September 1986- September 1987
Box 1.2.12 Supplementary Reports, December 1987- December 1989
Box 1.2.13 Supplementary Reports, March 1990- November 1991
Box 1.2.14 Supplementary Reports, March 1992- March 1995
Box 1.2.15 Supplementary Reports, June 1995- October 2005
Series 3: School Board Minutes
Box 1.3.1 School Board Minutes, 1910- 1941
Box 1.3.2 School Board Minutes, 1942- 1965
Box 1.3.3 School Board Minutes, 1966- 1997
Box 1.3.4 School Board Minutes, 1998- 2007
Series 4: Correspondence
Box 1.4.1 Correspondence, 1924- 1936
Box 1.4.2 Correspondence, 1937- 1964
Series 5: Miscellaneous
Box 1.5.1 Miscellaneous
Folder 1: Board of Visitors, VPI, Radford College- Manuals, 1944, 1947
Folder 2: Board of Visitors, VPI, Radford College- Membership, 1955-1979
Folder 3: VPI, Radford College- Consolidation, 1944, 1945