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University of Houston

 Organization

Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:

College of Technology Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-015
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / College of Technology Records
Dates: 1940-2009
Scope and Contents

These records contain 2 boxes relating to the College of Technology at the University of Houston. Material includes booklets, flyers, reports, handbooks, manuals, and video tapes. This collection is arranged chronologically and alphabetically as necessary by the following series; booklets and flyers, and videos. Materials range in date from the 1940’s to 2009.

Commencement/Convocation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-022
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Commencement/Convocation Collection
Dates: 1941-2018
Scope and Contents The Commencement/Convocation Collection contains information regarding General Commencement, Convocation, Directives, Campus and Building Preparations, Guest Lists, Schedules, Volunteers, and Speakers for the University of Houston. The materials date between the years 1939 to 2018.This collection also includes an additional 5 boxes of unprocessed materials. For questions about these materials or to request access, please contact University Archivist Mary Manning...

Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1985-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System Records
Dates: 1965-1985
Scope and Contents

This collection arrived at the archives in relatively good order, which has been maintained where possible. The collection consists of Audit Reports, Correspondence, Board Minutes, Proposals, Reports, Rules and Regulations, Resolutions, and Statements.

UH Creative Writing Program Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-019
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / UH Creative Writing Program Records
Dates: 1985-2012
Scope and Contents The UH Creative Writing Program Records consist of print media and memorabilia from the 1985 to 2012. Materials include program newsletters, event invitations and planning documentation, press, and one photograph. In addition to paper records, this collection also contains digital archival materials, many of which are related to the program's 25th annivesary. These can be accessed in the Special Collections Reading Room by advance request. These materials may require up to one...

Joseph Doggett "A College Forum" Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1969-068
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Joseph Doggett "A College Forum" Papers
Dates: 1963
Scope and Contents The collection contains materials related to the book "A College Forum" edited by Joseph Doggett, Everett Gillis, and Rosa Bludworth, published by The Odyssey Press in 1963. In the Preface, the editors arrived at what they considered a special design for their work, seeing a twofold need: "the need of the student for readings that will stimulate his own expression; the need of the instructor for a text that is adaptable to either a subject matter or a type of approach." The...

Faculty Evaluations Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1996-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Faculty Evaluations Collection
Dates: 1949-1996
Scope and Contents

This collection does not currently have a finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact Special Collections by emailing mmmanning@uh.edu.

Faculty Organizations Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1969-063
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Faculty Organizations Records
Dates: 1951-2005
Scope and Contents

The Faculty Organizations Records primarily consist of organizational minutes, as well as constitutions, bylaws, and report. Materials are arranged by chronological order. Records include those of the Faculty Association (1954-1963), Faculty Assembly (1951-1959), and Faculty Senate (1969-2005).

Faculty Senate Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Faculty Senate Records
Dates: 1950-2009
Scope and Contents This collection contains 32 boxes relating to the Faculty Senate at the University of Houston. Materials include financial reports, meeting notes and correspondence, budget reports, meeting minutes, policy and procedural manuals, proposals and other administrative material. The collection is divided into the following series; Annual Financial Reports, Board of Regents, Budget Reports, Bylaws, Committees and Task Forces, Conferences, Endowment Fund, Executive Summaries, Fact Books, Financial...

Faculty Vita Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1969-066
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Faculty Vita Records
Dates: 1960-1990
Scope and Contents Vitae folders are arranged alphabetically, according to the last name of the individual. Each card contains information (education, date of birth, brief employment history, and sometimes a photograph) for people employed by the University of Houston. Some of the folders also contain newspaper clippings associated with that individual. For example, the folders relating to Paul Chu contain numerous newspaper articles associated to his research in the area of superconductor material....

Carlisle Floyd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1999-009
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Carlisle Floyd Papers
Dates: 1966-1992
Scope and Contents

This collection contains manuscript scores for 6 of Carlisle Floyd's works, dating from 1958 to 1992.

UH Forensics Team Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / UH Forensics Team Records
Dates: 1956-1973
Scope and Contents

The U.H. Forensics Team Records contains newspaper articles, schedules of tournament events, correspondence, tapes, and photographs relating to the U.H. Forensics Team between the years of 1956-1973. Typically the newspaper articles describe the team's performance at various national tournaments.

"Forum" Magazine Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / "Forum" Magazine Records
Dates: 1964-1976
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of acceptances, reviews, and rejection letters sent out between January of 1964 and November of 1976; it also includes general correspondence concerning Donald Lee in the 1960s.

John H. Freeman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1977-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / John H. Freeman Collection
Dates: approximately 1956-1985
Scope and Contents

This collection does not currently have a full finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact Special Collections by emailing mmmanning@uh.edu.

The collection consists primarily of awards and honors recognizing Mr. Freeman's contributions to the field of medicine, as well as to the University of Houston Libraries.

UH Frontier Fiesta Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1996-003
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / UH Frontier Fiesta Collection
Dates: 1941-2014; Majority of material found within 1952-1959
Scope and Contents

This collection contains paper records related to Frontier Fiesta, dating from 1941 to 2011, with a bulk from the 1950s. Materials have been arranged by series, and chronologically within each. Materials found in this collection include programs, newspaper clippings, financial records, contracts, applications, rules and regulations, show scripts, correspondence, and photographs

Series 7 contains digital archival materials produced in 2014.

Graduate School of Social Work Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-018
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Graduate School of Social Work Records
Dates: 1960-2009
Scope and Contents This collection contains 2 boxes of records relating to the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston. A significant portion of this material was given to the archives from the university Print Plant. Materials include course information, stationary, certificates, invitations, program and workshop flyers, promotional material, published material, newsletters, reports, and commencement programs. This collection is arranged chronologically and alphabetically as necessary....

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Correspondence 25
Clippings (information artifacts) 11
Photographs 11
Minutes (administrative records) 9
Administrative records 7
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Brochures 7
Reports 6
Bylaws (administrative records) 5
Publications (documents) 5
Videotapes 5
Newsletters 4
Records (documents) 4
Scrapbooks 4
Agendas (administrative records) 3
Audiotapes 3
Financial records 3
Programs (documents) 3
Scores 3
Sound recordings 3
Academic rites and ceremonies 2
Advertisements 2
Business records 2
Catalogs (documents) 2
Composition (Music) 2
Faculty papers 2
Fliers (printed matter) 2
Invitations 2
Personal papers 2
Television -- Production and direction 2
Veterans 2
Women in higher education 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Annual reports 1
Architecture 1
Architecture, Domestic 1
Audiovisual materials 1
Bank statements 1
Budgets 1
Chamber music 1
Choral music 1
Commencement ceremonies 1
Compact discs 1
Distance education 1
Education 1
Elections 1
Essays 1
Folklore 1
Greeting cards 1
Houston (Tex.) 1
Hymn writers 1
Hymns 1
Instructional materials 1
Libraries 1
Libraries -- Texas 1
Manuals (instructional materials) 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Marching bands 1
Marching drills 1
Memorabilia 1
Memorandums 1
Music -- Manuscripts 1
Newspapers 1
Open University 1
Open learning 1
Opera 1
Optometry -- Study and teaching 1
Optometry schools -- United States 1
Pamphlets 1
Periodicals 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Plaques 1
Press releases 1
Public access computers in libraries 1
Scripts (documents) 1
Sheet music 1
Souvenirs 1
Television in higher education 1
Theater programs 1
Typescripts 1
University extension 1
Voluntarism 1
Women philanthropists 1
Yearbooks 1
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