Universities and colleges
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
West Virginia Historical Society Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0447
Overview
Correspondence and other materials, including notices of, and resolutions adopted at, the founders meeting at Morgantown, 30 September 1869.
Dates:
1869-1881
West Virginia Human Rights Commission Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1887
Overview
Papers of Thomas W. Gavett, Chairman of the Commission. Subjects covered include: surveys of equal employment opportunities, newspaper clippings, material from the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, correspondence regarding non-discriminatory college applications for West Virginia institutions of higher learning, memoranda from the executive director to commission members, minutes of meetings, hearings, West Virginia Interracial Commission created by Governor M.M. Neely, West Virginia...
Dates:
1961-1966
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
West Virginia State Buildings Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0711
Overview
Blueprints, correspondence, contractors' accounts, photographs, and other papers for buildings at West Virginia University, Marshall College, Glenville State Normal School, West Liberty State Normal School, New River State School, and other institutions.
Dates:
1912, 1926-1931
West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Education in East Africa, Papers and Photos
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0277
Overview
An agricultural education program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development administered through the West Virginia University Office of International Programs in cooperation with the West Virginia University College of Agriculture and Forestry. Reports and publicity releases on projects undertaken by the WVU College of Agriculture in East Africa to help the nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to develop agricultural educational programs on the secondary and...
Dates:
1960-1970
West Virginia University, Potomac State College, 100th Anniversary Program and Print
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5059
Overview
One program and one "art print" commemorating the 100th anniversary of Potomac State College; 3/31/2001.
Dates:
2001
West Virginia University, President E. Gordon Gee, Speeches and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5246
Scope and Contents
Copies of speeches given by Dr. Gee during his various terms as President of West Virginia University (1981-1985; 2014-2025), the University of Colorado (1985-1990), Ohio State University (1990-1998; 2007-2013), Brown University (1998-2000), and as Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (2000-2007). This collection also includes news articles spawned from Gee’s speeches, pre-event briefings, and correspondence related to Gee’s speeches. Many speeches have digital copies available....
Dates:
1982 January-2013 May
Wheeling University Trustees Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2012
Overview
By-laws, act of incorporation and minutes to meetings of the governing board of a college sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Wheeling University was a liberal arts college emphasizing the natural sciences and medicine. The minutes mostly deal with financial matters especially the acquisition and disposal of property.
Dates:
1831-1847
William A. Moreland, Political Papers, World War II Records, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2032
Overview
Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and...
Dates:
1824-2008
William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0485
Overview
Civil War materials collected by Dr. Brooks in writing his biographies of Grant and Lee. Included are pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and originals and copies of soldiers' letters, journals, and military reports. There are typed copies of a journal, 3 November-2 December 1863, of a civilian observer in Tennessee, who was at Grant's headquarters at the Battle of Chattanooga; letters, 1861-1864, of William Ludwig, a private in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in...
Dates:
ca. 1825-1944