West Virginia University, College of Applied Human Sciences, School of Sport Sciences, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4697
Includes records generated by West Virginia University’s College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (CPASS), which is now known as the College of Applied Human Sciences, School of Sport Sciences. The collection reflects everyday internal operations, staff and leadership activities, administrative plans and reports, outreach and community events, the CPASS Hall of Fame and other college events/awards, the development of campus facilities used by CPASS and WVU Athletics, and other subjects. Common material types include photographs, scrapbooks, bound reports, printed notes and correspondence, event programs and bulletins, magazines, and newspaper clippings. A box-level inventory is provided below.
Box 1: Dean Brooks’s personal planners
Dates: 1993-2019
Box 2: Lifetime Activities Program and Children’s Preparatory Program bulletins; correspondence and budgeting documents for outreach programs; CPASS Hall of Fame medal and pins; photographs of athletes, coaches, staff, students, and alumni at various CPASS events; photographs of Hall of Fame inductees and related Hall of Fame planning records; “WVU Sports Legends” event poster; signed copy of The Battle of the Potomac: A Century Long Football Rivalry between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Maryland Terrapins by Chip Zimmer
Dates: 1979-2021
Box 3: Photographs and newspaper clippings featuring Hall of Fame inductees; planning documents and photographs from CPASS’s 70th anniversary celebration; 1993-2002 CPASS Annual Reports; 1980-2010s copies of CPASS newsletters; various event programs and local publications retained by staff
Dates: ca. 1980s-2019
Box 4: Purchasing orders and similar internal records documenting CPASS’s move to the Coliseum Building in 1970; faculty and staff lists; materials from employee appreciation events; photographs of faculty, staff, and students; administrative committee documents
Dates: 1970-2017
Box 5: Copies of CPASS newsletters; strategic planning committee notes; notes regarding Brown vs. Board of Education “Family Reunion” commemoration; student and employee handbooks; planning documents for CPASS award ceremonies; various event programs and local publications retained by staff; 1996 CPASS five-year planning report; assorted material from Lifetime Activity programming; 1972 proposal for an intercollegiate athletic program for women at WVU
Dates: ca. 1972-2010s
Box 6: Hall of Fame nominations, correspondence, and newspaper clippings; photographs of staff and faculty at CPASS events; various CPASS reports and publications, 1991 Provost Reports; recruiting materials. Some event photographs are in digital format, and some recruiting materials are in audiovisual format; the rest of the box contains standard physical materials.
Dates: 1989-2013
Box 7: CPASS Annual Reports; Provost Reports; strategic planning documents; and other administrative records
Dates: ca. 1970s-1980s
Box 8: CPASS Annual Reports; Provost Reports; strategic planning documents; and other administrative records; commencement programs; copies of CPASS newsletters
Dates: ca. 1970s-1990s
Box 9: Newspaper clippings and magazine articles featuring CPASS activities; photographs and other documentation of joint programming with the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) and the West Virginia Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (WVA HPERD); list of 1991-2018 staff retirements; Annual Reports, Board of Governors report, and Vision report; event programs and related materials from awards ceremonies
Dates: 1991-2015
Box 10: Photographs from Dean Brook’s research into West Virginia’s segregated high schools and historically Black colleges/universities; event materials from Brown vs. Board of Education “Family Reunion” commemoration; University System of West Virginia, Response to Senate Bill 547 booklet; photographs from a trip to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; newspaper clippings featuring CPASS faculty and Dean Brooks’s research
Dates: 1998-2007
Box 11: CPASS Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employment plans; Hall of Fame and Outstanding Alumnus Program planning documents
Dates: 1992-2010
Box 12: Photographs of Hall of Fame inductees; newspaper clippings collected by Dean Brooks; scrapbook of items retained from various CPASS events; NYSP summer camp scrapbook
Dates: 1988-2014
Box 13: Photographic slides used in A Century of Athletics at WVU, 1981-Present lecture delivered by CPASS professor J. William Douglas
Dates: ca. 1991
Oversize folder: Architectural drawings for the Shell Building; promotional posters for the 2014 Don Nehlen Lecture and 2016 Intercollegiate Athletics Lecture signed by speakers
Dates: 1980, 2014-2016
The addendum includes similar materials to the original collection, like newspaper and magazine coverage of CPASS events, internal and university reports, staff information, and more. A donor-made inventory is listed below:
Item 1: Program Review – State College & University System of West Virginnia, Master of Science in Physical Education, format for Programs Without Specialized Accreditation
Dates: September 15, 2000
Item 2: Program Review – State College & University Systems of West Virginia, Ed.D. in Physical Education, Format for Programs Without Specialized Accreditation
Dates: September 15, 2000
Item 3: Board of Governors Program Review WVU & Regional Campuses, Master of Science, Physical Education
Dates: 2003
Item 4: CAATE (Commission of Accreditation of Athletic Training Education) Athletic Training Education Program Self Study, Section I – Narrative; Section II – Appendices, pages 1-507; Section III – Appendices, pages 508-997
Dates: September 2008
Item 5: CPASS Salary Information
Dates: 1991-1992
Item 6: CPASS Salary Information
Dates: 1990-1991
Item 7: The WV All Black Schools Sports & Academic Hall of Fame
Dates: 2008
Item 8: Don Nehlen Lecture Series
Dates: 2001-2006
Item 9: CPASS Building Project
Dates: 2013-2014
Item 10: Getting Things Done with People Involved (Winning with Your Wits)
Dates: November 2004, updated 2010
Item 11: 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education
Dates: 2004
Item 12: WVU Undergraduate Athletic Training Program CAAHEP Progress Report
Dates: January 15, 2002-January 15, 2003
Item 13: BOT Graduate/Professional Degree Program Review Committee Results
Dates: May 15, 2001
Item 14: Heart, Mind & Soul CD, honoring Wood and Shirley McCue
Dates: 2011
Item 15: Ware Family Distinguished Professorship Ceremonies
Dates: August 2002
Item 16: School of Physical Education’s 5-year Planning Sub-Committee update report
Dates: Fall 1997
Item 17: School of Physical Education’s 5-Year Planning update report
Dates: Fall 1997
Item 18: CPASS & Perspective Magazines
Dates: 2014-2019
Item 19: CPASS Programs/Announcements
Dates: 1993-2017
Box 6 contains both audiovisual and digital material. Box 14 also contains digital material. Audiovisual material must be digitized for research access, and digital material may be accessed by appointment, either in-person or remotely. Please contact the West Virginia and Regional History Center in advance at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc for access to these items.
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.
The West Virginia University School of Sport Sciences was established in 1928 as the Division of Physical Education. The school has gone through several name changes in its history, but it was known as the College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (CPASS) from 2008-2022, the period during which this collection was compiled and donated. In 2022, as part of WVU’s academic transformation plan, CPASS was merged with the College of Education and Human Services to create the College of Applied Human Sciences.
16.51 Linear Feet (13 record cartons, 15 in. each; 1 clamshell box, 3 in.; 1 oversize folder, 0.1 in.)
English
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Transfer from West Virginia University, College of Applied Human Sciences, School of Sport Sciences via Falvey, Cathleen on 2022 April 21 and via Hriblan, Rosemary on 2022 June 21 and 2022 November 18.
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository