Collections

Files in this collection include committee files, information on academic programs at Florida State University, budget files, and files on other universities.

The Florida State University Office of the Provost Records document the administration, governance, and development of Florida State University, largely from the 1980s to the 2010s. Records in the collection include self-studies and reports related to enrollment and retention, salaries, funding, and resource planning; master and strategic plans; committee reports, meeting minutes, and agendas, including from the FSU Board of Trustees and State University System of Florida's Board of Governors; budgetary records by academic unit; program audits and proposals, including a proposal and consideration for a Chiropractic program in the College of Medicine; research reports from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory; proposals and reports for externally-funded projects; agreements with the Asolo Conservatory and Ringling Museum; and internal and external correspondence with the Provost's office.

Bob E. Leach Speech Files in the FSU Digital Library

The Omicron Delta Kappa Records collection consists of administrative records for the Florida State University Seminole Circle of ODK. These include meeting minutes, alumni records and lists, various correspondence and programs and photographs from tapping and initiation ceremonies throughout the years. including a initiates register dating to the foundation of the circle. This register contains the signatures of all initiates from 1950 to 2007.

This collection includes a minutes book of the Phi Alpha Theta, dated April 4, 1934 to May 29, 1948 and a treasurer's book of the Delta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta dated January 1947 to April 29, 1980. This second book also includes fourteen pages of chapter minutes dated Feb. 11, 1949 through Dec. 5, 1953.

The collection contains 12 Florida State University postcards of various Florida State University buildings: Coyle E. Moore Athletic Center (2), Fine Arts Building, Art Gallery and Mainstage Theatre (2), Mildred and Claude Pepper Library in Dodd Hall (1), Robert Manning Strozier Library (2), Rovetta Business Building (2), The University Center (1), and Westcott Building (2). Although they are undated, the photos were taken during the 1980s.

The Florida State University (FSU) President's Executive Committee Minutes consist of agendas, memoranda, minutes, reports, and other attachments documenting the work of this organization during the early 1970s. Some of the topics frequently discussed were academic problems of minoritized students, student health services, visits by Florida legislators, student residence hall issues, substance abuse and substance abuse education, and parking and traffic regulations. James Stanley Marshall was FSU President at this time. These records document FSU campus governance and activities in the early 1970s. Materials are arranged chronologically.

There is a gap in the collection from the 1912/1914 report to the 1922/1924 report. A copy of the President's Report for the years included in the gap and prior to the 1912/1914 report can be found in the Report of the Board of Control of the State Educational Institutions of Florida, Strozier, Documents Florida--L136 .B155.