Collections

Records, 1970-1981, consisting of materials pertaining to visiting artists, musical groups, and symphony orchestras in the Music Hall Artists Series and the West Florida Music Festival. Includes clipping files for Music Department activities, 1968-1970, and Florida League of the Arts files, 1970-1972.

Records, 1990-1992, of the Office of the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs including correspondence, reports, studies and other materials dealing with all areas of academic affairs at the University of West Florida, including departments, divisions, colleges, faculty, budget, endowed chairs, patents, centers, off-campus instruction, enrollment services, and related topics.

Records, 1972-1987, of the Office of Recreation and Sports, including correspondence, publications, and committee files. Includes materials on the history of the department and development of recreation and sports programs and facilities, the Natatorium, the Pensacola Seafood Festival, Springcoming, and the participation of the University in local sports events and organizations. Committee files cover freshmen, enrollment, food services, and the Santa Rosa Island Property.

Records, 1989- , of the Dean's Council and Extended Deans Council, including agendas, informal minutes, reports, handouts, study materials, and related documentation. Subjects include enrollment, budgets, capital improvement programs, master plans, the library, classroom space, faculty awards, salary data, grant reports, policies on overload and related academic matters.

Records, 1993-1994, consisting of reading files of the Office of the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of West Florida. Reading files are outgoing memoranda, correspondence, and copies of other written communications arranged chronologically, representing all aspects of academic administration at the University of West Florida. Key writers include Douglas Friedrich and Carl Backman.

Audiotapes of an Oral History Project conducted by UWF faculty member Dr. Thomas Gilliam on the early formation and creation of the University of West Florida. Narrators include Phillip D. Beall, Warren Briggs, Harold Crosby, Jack Fiveash, Elizabeth Hawes, J. B. Hopkins, and Gordon Wells.

Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to the development, history, and planning of the Panama City Center of the University of West Florida, 1965-1983. Includes planning of the master campus, land acquisition, statistics, and records of the lobbying efforts of citizens and groups both for and against the transfer of the branch campus to Florida State University in 1982.

Photographs, negative files, documentation such as notes or information on the photographs, and related materials.

Records, 1964- , including minutes, agendas, reports, budgets, and other working papers of the Board and its state universities. Subjects concern educational budgets, policies, govrnance, academic policies and planning, and related educational concerns.

Minutes, reports, agendas, and other working papers of the Council of Presidents of the Board of Regents, State of Florida, 1964- . Subjects include budgets, capital funds and buildings, academic policies, and other university administrative concerns.