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Scope and Contents The Board of Trustees record group is a collection that documents the activities of the Board of Trustees from the beginning of the school’s organization to present. Included are seven series that include minutes (1879-2017), reports (1914-2005), correspondence (1891-2000; 1950-2000), membership information (most contents are undated), school financial matters (1871-1999; 1900-1930), general business matters of the school (1857-2012), and the John McCune collection (1866-1895). The McCune...

Scope and Content Note The bulk of this collection consists of governing documents, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting Pi Nu Epsilon Delta Chapter’s activities at Shippensburg State College and Shippensburg University. Also included in this collection are constitutions, by-laws, and meeting agendas for meetings of the national Pi Nu Epsilon organization, and correspondence related to the national organization’s efforts to expand to other schools in Pennsylvania and Maryland.Governing documents...

Scope and Contents The records of the Office of Administration and Finance span the years 1877 through 2020 with the bulk from 1969-1978 and 2016-2019. Included are administrative correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, policies, and building histories. The collection is organized according to the institution’s 2019 organizational chart into the following 10 series: Administration, Administrative Council, General Business, Human Resources, Facilities Management and Planning, Department of Public Safety,...

Overview The principals/presidents of the institution are elected by the Board of Trustees. In 1872, the Board of Trustees elected George P. Beard as the first principal of the Cumberland Valley Normal School. The Board of Trustees reserved the right to choose each principal/president of the school until sometime in the 20th century when the Board of Trustees began to use a Presidential Selection Committee that was represented by members from the "faculty, student body, alumni, and Board of Trustees"...