About University Archives
Scope
University Archives collects the documents and records - both published and unpublished - relevant to the history of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. These materials date from the founding of the school and include items such as chancellors' correspondence, minutes of faculty staff and student organizations, and the records of individual offices and academic departments. Relevant items may also take on a variety of forms such as photographs, published books, films, audio recordings, and artifacts.
Strengths of the collections include:
- Civil Rights and Desegregation Movement
- Creative Writing
- Campus Development
- Education; especially Women's Education and Education the South
- Faculty and Alumni Publications
- Student Life
- University History
Records received by Archives come from the academic and administrative offices of the university in accordance with the Records Transfer Schedule, at which point they are proccessed and made available for research.
Background
University Archives began in 1942 as the College Collection, with the mission of assembling material related to the history of the college. At that time, the collection included publications by faculty members; biographical material about the faculty; programs from college lectures, concerts, commencements, and other events; and photographs of the campus, faculty, and college life.
In 1972, the University Archives at UNCG was added to the Society of American Archivists' Directory of College and University Archives, with a reported 440 cubit feet of material in it's holdings. Today, the Archives has expanded to hold approximately 2,500 linear feet worth of material, and has given birth to UNCG's private Manuscripts collection, as well as the collections of the Women Veteran's Historical Project.
