Minnesota State Colleges and Universities/Minnesota State. Collection, 1859-Ongoing.
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into five different series based upon governing structures of the state’s normal schools, colleges, and universities. Each series is further arranged alphabetically or chronologically.
State Normal School System: This series contains information about the State Normal School System from 1859 through 1922. Items included range from quarterly journals to minutes of board meetings and an inventory of the board’s publications.
State Teachers College System: Documents in this series are dated from the 1920s through 1957 and are composed of publications, committee reports, and minutes of board meetings. All papers that contain meeting minutes have been placed into a sub-series devoted entirely to minutes.
State College Board: This series contains information about the systems budgets, programs, commissions, finances, reports, rules and regulations, lists of classified staff for Mankato State College, records of the system’s chancellors, and the minutes of board meetings, committees, councils and other meetings. All papers that contain meeting minutes have been placed into a sub-series devoted entirely to minutes.
State University System: Documents in this series consist of grievance appeals for a few faculty members and the Wilson Campus School located on the Campus of Mankato State, biennial budgets, papers of chancellors, publications, newsletters, rules and regulations, papers of various vice chancellors, a student housing report, and the meeting minutes of several committees and board meetings. All papers that contain meeting minutes have been placed into a sub-series devoted entirely to minutes.
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System (Minnesota State): Most of these materials were originally associated with the President’s Office at Minnesota State University, Mankato, but have since been transferred into this collection. This series is predominantly composed of Minnesota State Colleges and University Board of Trustees materials from their monthly meetings held in the Twin Cities. The remainder of the series is composed of Higher Education Board materials.
Dates
- 1859-Ongoing
Creator
- Mitau, G. Theodore, 1920-1979 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
There are some restrictions on use of this collection for research purposes. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property and libel laws as they apply.
Conditions Governing Use
There are some restrictions on use of this collection for research purposes. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property and libel laws as they apply.
Biographical / Historical
The governing bodies of Minnesota’s schools of higher education have changed names as the missions of these institutions have changed since the late 1850s. The first governing body was the State Normal School System. It was discontinued in the early 1920s when the normal schools became teachers colleges. The new governing body became the State Teachers College System during the early 1920s and lasted until the creation of the State College Board in 1957. The State College Board was discontinued on 1 August 1975 when the State University System (SUS) was created. The SUS remained the governing body of all state universities until 1 July 1995 when by an act of the state legislature the seven state universities were combined with 21 community colleges and 34 technical colleges. The conglomeration of these institutions created the MnSCU (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities) System.1 On June 21, 2016, they adopted the name “Minnesota State” to refer to the system of state colleges and universities.2 Minnesota State currently consists of seven state universities and 30 colleges.
Extent
15.00 Cubic Feet (15 Archives Boxes, 3 Oversized Folders) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (Minnesota State) collection contains information about the state's universities and their predecessor institutions since 1859. The collection is made up of publications, minutes, correspondence, memos, budgets, rules and regulations, newsletters, and records of the chancellors. Documents are arranged by governing bodies and chronology: State Normal School System, State Teachers College System, State College Board, the State University System, and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (Minnesota State).
- Education, Higher
- Hays, Garry D., 1935-
- Higher education and state
- Higher education and state -- Minnesota
- Minnesota
- Minnesota State College Board
- Minnesota State University Board
- Minnesota State University System
- Mitau, G. Theodore, 1920-1979
- Prentis, Roy C.
- Reed, Bevington A.
- Teachers colleges
- Teachers colleges -- Minnesota
- Universities and colleges
- Universities and colleges
- Universities and colleges -- Minnesota
- Universities and colleges -- Minnesota
- University cooperation
- University cooperation -- Minnesota
Creator
- Mitau, G. Theodore, 1920-1979 (Person)
- Title
- Minnesota State Colleges and Universities/Minnesota State. Collection, 1859-Ongoing.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael Gieseke
- Date
- 2005-09
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2015-09: Mee Xiong updated the finding aid
- 2018-02: Kieu Cao updated the finding aid
- 2018-11: Adam Smith updated the finding aid
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Repository Details
Part of the Minnesota State University, Mankato University Archives Repository
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Memorial Library
PO Box 8419
Mankato MN 56002-8419 US
507-389-1029
archives@mnsu.edu