Services for Administrators & Staff
Research Assistance
The collections in the Concordia College Archives contain much of the documented institutional memory of Concordia College. Therefore, the Concordia College Archives holds a number of records that are helpful in tracking down policies, procedures, minutes, and college publications. Whether you need photographs of a colleague for a retirement party or copies of Faculty Senate minutes, the Concordia College Archives can be of assistance. Please Contact Us -- we are eager to help!
Records Management
The Concordia College Archives actively collects records of historical, legal, fiscal, and administrative value to the institution in both print and electronic forms. The College Archives and Office of Risk Management are developing a Records Management Program to facilitate the acquisition of these valuable records. Please Contact Us regarding the transfer of college records to the Concordia College Archives. The list below summarizes the typical materials the College Archives strives to collect:
The collections in the Concordia College Archives contain much of the documented institutional memory of Concordia College. Therefore, the Concordia College Archives holds a number of records that are helpful in tracking down policies, procedures, minutes, and college publications. Whether you need photographs of a colleague for a retirement party or copies of Faculty Senate minutes, the Concordia College Archives can be of assistance. Please Contact Us -- we are eager to help!
Records Management
The Concordia College Archives actively collects records of historical, legal, fiscal, and administrative value to the institution in both print and electronic forms. The College Archives and Office of Risk Management are developing a Records Management Program to facilitate the acquisition of these valuable records. Please Contact Us regarding the transfer of college records to the Concordia College Archives. The list below summarizes the typical materials the College Archives strives to collect:
- Committee, task force, and departmental meeting minutes and reports
- Correspondence and memoranda
- Personal papers of alumni, faculty, and administrators
- Scrapbooks
- Annual reports
- Architectural drawings of campus buildings
- Departmental histories
- Policies, guidelines, reports, and procedures
- Employee (faculty, staff, and administrator) handbooks, manuals, and policies
- Accreditation reports
- Student guidelines and policies
- Subject files
- Constitutions and by-laws, minutes and proceedings, lists of officers of the college’s corporate bodies
- General administrative records, especially those from the offices of the President, Vice Presidents, and Registrar. These records include correspondence, meeting minutes (especially for committees no longer in existence or for projects that have been completed), written reports, self-studies/accreditation visits, transcripts of deceased students, and subject files at least five years old and not longer needed for reference.
- Publications, meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs, etc. of the student body, its government, various student organizations, societies and clubs, and alumni groups
- Publications by and about Concordia College (e. g., programs, brochures, clippings from local newspapers, newsletters, etc.)
- Biographical information on administrators, faculty, staff, and alumni of the college.
- Oral history interviews with their transcriptions
- Photographs, slides, films, audio and video recordings, and emerging electronic media that are identified, dated, and produced by the College or related to the College
- Artifacts and memorabilia related to the College’s history and of a manageable physical size and condition