Universities and colleges -- Employees

Scope and Contents Annual reports, self studies, newsletter, website, and opening speech typescript of the Tennessee Tech University College of Arts and Sciences. Annual reports describe changes in academic programs and curriculum, movement of departments into new facilities, enrollment numbers by department, major events, department news, and the Dean's recommendations. The annual reports also provides information on faculty by department, including lists of new hires, retirements, publications,...

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Information Services records including files, press releases and photographs from the Press Services.

Abstract

The collection documents William Everett Derryberry’s term as President of Tennessee Tech University (1940-1974) and his personal and professional life outside of the university. He managed the university through disruption during World War II, growth in enrollment after the war, physical expansion of the campus, integration and student movements during the 1960s and 1970s, and the university’s name change from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1965.

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This collection consists of documents created by the Faculty Senate including: Agendas and Minutes, Committee Policies and Correspondence, Faculty Handbooks, and various Other Handbooks and Manuals. The first three series (accordingly as listed) are arranged chronologically. Other Handbooks and Manuals are arranged according to their source department. The records range from 1982 to 2019 and consist of 14 boxes.

Content Description Tennessee Tech University Department of Foreign Languages annual report, brochures, correspondence, newsletters, photographs scrapbook, reading files, self-studies, syllabi, website, and foreign language student organization flyers. The reading files were organized by Phillip J. Campana while he was chair of the department and were intended to contain a copy of everything created by his office as chair. The reading files are incomplete.Digital materials can be accessed online at:...

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Records of the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Tech University. Includes ephemera, accreditation self-studies, academic program proposals and curriculum, correspondence, university-wide policies, Mary Patterson Scholarship administration files, and new faculty orientation materials.

See also: College of Arts and Sciences records

Abstract

The Newsletters and Publications collection is an accumulation of various publications made by Tennessee Tech University and other institutions relevant to the region dating from 1951 through 2020. The records are files of text arranged in alphabetical order by title of publication.

Scope and Contents The Photographs series contains prints and negatives depicting campus buildings, students, athletic teams, Derryberry and his family, and events. Also included are printing mats and blocks of formal Derryberry portraits. Some of the campus prints are photographs of graphite drawings of buildings and maps. Many of the negatives from 1942-1943 appear to have been printed in the Class of 1942 and 1943 yearbooks. The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title, then chronologically by date...

Description From the Series: The Administrative Files series documents Derryberry’s work during his term as President of Tennessee Tech University. Materials include meeting minutes, subject files, clippings, correspondence, financial records, reports, annotated publications on education topics, and records of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation visits and self-study preparation. The SACS records are useful for compilations of university wide statistics and reports on academic programs,...