Transferring College Records
As the official repository of College records, the College Archives actively collects materials documenting the history of Concordia College. If your office, department, or organization has records to transfer, please contact the Archives to discuss your donation. Please keep records in their original order when transferring them to the Archives. A records transmittal form should accompany the boxes.
We are interested in receiving all materials that are of legal, fiscal, administrative, and historical value to the College. Here are some examples of materials that tend to encompass these values:
We are interested in receiving all materials that are of legal, fiscal, administrative, and historical value to the College. Here are some examples of materials that tend to encompass these values:
- 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