Collections : [UCF University Archives]

The Archival collection of Dr. Charles N. Millican from the collection of Norman Van Meter, 1900-2004 contains photographs, news clippings, and personal letters about Charles Millican. The photographs range from social events to private family photos. This collection provides insight into the life and career of Dr. Charles Millican. Charles Norman Millican was born October 9, 1916 in Wilson, Arkansas. He earned a B.S. in Business and Religion from Union University in 1941. In 1946, he received his M.A. in Economics from George Peabody College and became Acting Head of the Commerce Department at Union University. The Millicans moved to Florida in 1948 where Millican studied for his Ph.D. in Business Finance and Economics. When Dr. Millican was appointed President of the new university in 1965, the university had no name, no buildings, no faculty and no students; he had to create the university over which he would preside. After Millican's appointment, he hired staff, found premises, and began the slow process of creating his university. He established the twin tenets of "Accent on the Individual" and "Accent on Excellence," which continue to guide the University, and the motto, "Reach for the Stars". Although he retired as President in 1978, Millican returned to teaching finance as a professor in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida, as it was now known, and earned the title President Emeritus. He chaired the Orange County Community Referendum Committee, which passed the resort tax that built the Orange County Convention Center. He has received Distinguished Alumnus awards from both the University of Florida and Union University, and he received honorary LL.D. degrees from Rollins College and UCF.

Mary Monroe was a theatre student at FTU in the 1970s. Her collection of photographs, news clippings, and programs document the theatre performances during that time.

The Orlando Shakespeare Theater Collection contains playbills, programs, reviews, newspaper clippings, films, cassettes, reels, and schedules. It also includes items relating to the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival Partnership (OSF) such as Simply Shakespeare, Central Florida's first Shakespearean troupe, and the UCF Shakespeare Summer Institute as well as the NEH grant funded faculty study project "Hamlet: Exploring the Renaissance Mind in Action" which was presented in the Summer 1991.

The Library collection documents the history of the John C. Hitt library. There are several subseries pertaining to different leaders, committees, and departments found within the library. This collection contains photographs, negatives, CDs, VHSs, and documents.

The University of Central Florida Office of Undergraduate Admission records, 1978-2024, contains promotional and informational material about undergraduate admissions. This collection includes information booklets, a scrapbook, photographs, DVDs, CDs, and a plaque. These materials contain information about student life, courses, undergraduate applications, and more. The collection provides insight into the promotional materials used to recruit potential students to UCF. The plaque is from the Interinstitutional Cooperation Committee that was given to W. Dan Chapman and other Florida administrators. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions was founded in 1963 and has changed names once since its inception from UCF Admissions to UCF Undergraduate Admissions. The Undergraduate Admissions Office provides students with tools and information to determine if UCF is right for them. They also provide information about the undergraduate admissions process.

The UCF Police Department collection, 1969-2012, includes materials from and about the University of Central Florida Police Department (UCFPD). It consists of news clippings, officer training materials and other departmental files, and printed ephemera relating to the activities of the department and its involvement with the UCF and Central Florida community. Established in 1973, the University of Central Florida Police Department (UCFPD) serves the main campus as well as UCF Downtown, the Rosen College of Hospitality and Management, the Health Sciences Campus in Lake Nona, and all UCF-managed housing facilities. The UCFPD serves nearly 68,000 students, 13,000 employees, and thousands of visitors each year. UCFPD has Patrol, Criminal Investigations, Community Partnership, K-9, and Community Service Units, as well as a Communications Center and Records department. As one of the few universities in the country with its own dedicated Communications Center, UCFPD has 24/7 dispatchers.

The University of Central Florida scrapbooks contains bound and unbound scrapbooks created by offices, organizations, and individuals affiliated with Florida Technological University (FTU), now University of Central Florida (UCF) which relate to the University's history, including university presidents, academics, athletics and extramural sports, student organizations and activities, and alumni. Materials in this collection include news clippings, photographs, correspondence, ephemera, and microfilm. This collection provides insight into UCF's history, the early activities of university organizations and programs, and the way these actitivties were documented. The University of Central Florida (UCF), then Florida Tecnhological University (FTU), was founded in 1963 and welcomed its first class of students in 1968. At its founding, FTU aimed to provide science, technology, enfineering and math education to support the growing United States space program in Florida. FTU was renamed in 1978 to the University of Central Florida, and broadened its academic scope. These scrapbooks were created and collected by various parties affiliated with UCF.