University of Central Florida Libraries
11/23/2009
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The University Archives holds publications, records, photographs and other materials on the University of Central Florida, formerly Florida Technological University from its beginnings in 1963 to the current day. Materials are selected, preserved, and made accessible for their enduring historical and administrative value to the University. These records may be paper-based, or in other formats such as photographs, audio, or film; they are appraised for their content.
Some University records collections are unprocessed. Reviewing the collections requires prior consultation with the University Archivist or Special Collections staff. To enquire about the contents of a collection or make an appointment to view the records, please contact the Special Collections and University Archives at 407-823-2576 or speccoll@mail.ucf.edu.
Finding Aids or Guides to manuscript and records collections held by the UCF Special Collections and University Archives may be viewed and searched on the statewide database Archives Florida.
In 1988 the University of Central Florida celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding
in 1963. This collection contains documents, correspondence, invitations, and programs from
the events held to celebrate the university's anniversary.
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The collection contains documents, designs and examples relating to the history and development
of the official seal of the University of Central Florida, formerly known as Florida Technological
University. The materials discuss the design and emblems of other colleges and universities,
as well as suggestions for school colors. Other items include numerous designs and layouts,
staff opinion poll results, and examples of various seals used in state and local governments
and business.
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Alumna, Mary Monroe created these scrapbooks and collected materials relating to the
university
theatre department in the mid 1970's.
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The News and Information Collection, 1968-2003, contains materials regarding the University
of Central Florida press releases and other University news related information. The collection
is an alphabetical subject file containing the collected materials of the News and Information
Office. Topics include information on UCF departments, organizations, events and building projects.
Folders primarily contain information used for research to develop press
releases and contacts
with the media.
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Videos showing how campus looked in 1987 with a few documents from the early 1970's.
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This collection holds mainly objects but also some paper-based materials suitable for
exhibiting. T-shirts, key fobs, mugs, plaques, framed items, shovels, and similar materials
provide a visual history of the University of Central Florida. The Pegasus Seal, which is
the university's emblem, is featured on many objects including those created when the university
was named Florida technological University.
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University publications include reports, planning documents, budgets, financial statements,
audits, self studies, proposals, directories, feasibility studies and handbooks published by
the University of Central Florida, its colleges, departments, centers, institutes, offices and
organizations. This collection also holds materials published by other organizations, which
affect the university, such as, the State of Florida, the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools and the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
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These materials were collected by various individuals as a way to chronicle the history of
the University of Central Florida since its creation as Florida Technological University. The
collection is divided into four series to delineate between general University history and organizational
history. The vast majority of this collection is made up of news articles cut from local newspapers,
however there are other materials such as office notes, pictures, brochures, and pamphlets.
A microfilm copy of Scrapbooks, v.1-12 in Series I containing news clippings about the University
from 1968-1985 is located in Media Services under call number LD1772.F9 A6829.
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A Self Study conducted by each department of FTU in 1973.
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An alphabetical subject file of collected materials. Topics include UCF departments, organizations,
events, teams, and individuals as well as information on Orlando, local history, book arts,
printing and typography, and artists in the Bryant collection. Files generally contain materials
such as pamphlets, brochures, memos, publications, newsletters, clippings, photographs, and
many other document types.
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Patrick Cucci, was a UCF wrestling coach in the 1980s. His collection of memorabilia, news clippings,
and correspondence documents the team's history during that period.
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Memorabilia on the UCF Football Team collected by team member Ed Gantner.
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The collection contains twenty reels of 16mm film showing six games from the UCF Football
team's third season in 1981. The games include Elizabeth City State University, Savannah State,
Alabama A&M, West Georgia, Hampden-Syndey, and Bethune Cookman.
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The collection holds pictures, posters, and news footage of the UCF Football team in its
first few years. Footage of specific games including the first UCF Football game against St.
Leo College in Tampa, Florida and footage highlighting the history of UCF Football is held here.
A poster commissioned by former UCF Football player Michael O'Shaughnessy showing images of
the University's football history is contained in this collection.
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The University of Central Florida Athletics Collection documents the history and operation
of FTU and UCF sports and how University athletics have been chronicled in the media. The creation
of several FTU and UCF sports teams are highlighted here, including the UCF football team in
1979. A large portion of this collection contains publications from most FTU and UCF sporting
teams including yearly media guides used by local and national media outlets to aid in reporting
on University sports.
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This collection contains a wide variety of media used to document, promote, or analyze the
University of Central Florida. While the bulk of the collection is video, the collection also
contains audio and multi-media. News footage from around Central Florida pertaining to the University
can be found here as well as historic media that chronicles the growth of both FTU and UCF.
University advertising campaigns as well as University produced media highlight the many academic
and athletic organizations that can be found on campus.
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The University Building Renderings Collection is comprised of both original and printed artwork
that was created to give its audience a glimpse of what a potential building on the campus of
Florida Technological University would look like before it was constructed. While all of the
buildings featured in this collection were eventually constructed, some features of the buildings
are different than what the renderings depict. The majority of the artwork was created in 1966,
before major construction on the campus was started; however, there are a few pieces that date
through to 1968.
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The collection contains video cassettes and DVD copies of graduation ceremonies for UCF undergraduate,
graduate, and PhD students.
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In 1974 and 1975 the FTU College of Arts and Humanities, in cooperation with the Florida
Endowment for the Humanities, sponsored two series of lectures targeting moral issues resulting
from medical advancement. This collection comprises the audio and video records of those lectures.
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The collection consists of episodes of the UCF Metro with Linda Chapin television series
that looks at UCF’s efforts to take a leadership role in regional and state issues in the economy,
workforce and education. The series was created in partnership with the University of Central
Florida Metropolitan Center, WMFE Channel 24 and the Nicholson School of Communications and
hosted by former Orange County Chairman Linda Chapin, director of The Metropolitan Center for
Regional Studies at the University. The series began airing on WMFE Channel 24 in November 2001.
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The basis for this record group is photographs that were taken for use as publicity material
for the University of Central Florida. The images document all aspects of university life including
annual events such as commencement and homecoming, special events, portraits of faculty, students,
alumni, and visitors to the university including speakers, performers and government officials.
Buildings on both the main campus and regional campuses are shown during construction and after
completion. Instructors are shown teaching and researching and students are shown studying in
laboratories and classrooms.
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This collection of posters illustrates events at the University of Central Florida since its inception
as Florida Technological University to the present. It holds materials published by both student and
university organizations pertaining to university events, schedules, calendars, and promotions.
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Audio cassettes and scripts of the WUCF Jewish Radio Hour program, which aired from 1992-1997.
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The papers of the third president of the University of Central Florida, Steven Altman, include
the files of memorandums, inauguration correspondence, inaugural address, certificates of greetings
and congratulations, documents of academic audits, administrative audits, program reviews and
university strategic planning documents.
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These materials were collected to briefly document the appointment and retirement of Robert
A. Bryan who served as Interim President of the University of Central Florida from 1991-1992.
The papers include news clippings, photographs, certificates, programs and invitations.
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H. Trevor Colbourn was the second president of Florida Technological University and the first
president of the University of Central Florida because he was responsible for the name change.
Dr. Colbourn served from 1978 to 1989, and during that time, he established the football program,
honors program, Institute of Simulation and Training, and Central Florida Research Park. The
collection of correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs and pamphlets not only covers
the period of his presidency but also his earlier research interests and subsequent service
to the university as Professor of History and University Historian. Included in these materials
are earlier documents created by Dr. Colbourn's predecessor, Dr. Charles N. Millican.
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The collection contains materials created and used by the UCF Presidential Inauguration Committee
for the inauguration celebration of UCF's fourth president, John C. Hitt. Event maps, brochures,
correspondence, budgets, inauguration day materials, President Hitt's inauguration speech, and
letters of congratulation from academic institutions world wide are found here.
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The papers of the first president of Florida Technological University, Charles Millican include
his correspondence, speeches and reports, as well as minutes of the Board of Regents and the
Council of Presidents meetings. Of particular interest are files related to the establishment
and history of the University: site selection, legislative lobbying, University name, construction,
planning conferences, five-year plan, presidential inauguration and photographs. Other topics
in the collection include convocation, evaluation of the president, college housing program,
faculty opinion survey and meeting students' needs, values and motivations, and Florida's Solar
Energy Center.
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The University of Central Florida is a public multi-campus, metropolitan research university
that not only educates the local community but also partners with technological companies and
with educational facilities abroad. As Chief Executive Officer of the University, the president
has support from a large team; therefore, the Records of the Office of the President document
the University's major interests. Nevertheless, correspondence, reports, minutes, leaflets and
news clippings also show the breadth and depth of the president's work and his personal interests.
Office of the President Webpage
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The Division of Academic Affairs promotes the university's academic endeavors. Led by the
Provost, the division includes the Dean's of the eleven colleges as well as academic support
services, such as, Information Technologies and Resources, Student Development and Enrollment
Services and Research and Commercialization. Most of the materials in this record group directly
concern the work of the Provost's Office.
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This collection contains ten scrapbooks and other loose materials related to the UCF Arboretum.
Comprised mostly of photographs, the collection also contains pamphlets, and articles. In additon,
the collection contains U-matic video tapes on subjects related to the arboretum.
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The Assistant Director of Maintenance Records contain information concerning the growth of
UCF since its inception. Among the documents in the collection are building blueprints, memos,
work orders, photographs, letters, and official correspondences that detail the ways in which
UCF has grown and developed as an institution.
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The UCF Board of Trustees formed in 2001 when the Florida State University system separated
into individual Universities. The documents and minutes continue similar work to the previous
statewide entity, the Board of Regents, whose records are included in the Office of the President
records.
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Board of Trustees Webpage
Includes budgets and legislative requests.
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The Campus Advisory Board is a student-run organization that organizes educational and entertainment
activities funded by the Activity and Service Fee. This collection includes informational brochures,
event calendars and advertisements for the Campus Advisory Board and related university offices.
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H. Trevor Colbourn was the second president of UCF. After retirement from the presidency
in 1989 he became the University Historian. As University Historian, Colbourn constructed many
oral histories with alumni, founders, faculty, staff, and others that contributed to the University.
The collection consists of final transcripts of the interviews.
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Records from the UCF College of Medicine.
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A collection of letters, memoranda, reports and news releases, which documents the establishment
of CREOL.
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The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers was founded in 1986 and is currently
recognized as a center for excellence regarding research in a wide range of optics and photonics technologies.
This collection contains conference materials and correspondence related to CREOL and its first director
M. J. Soileau.
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Florida Technological University, now the University of Central Florida, set out in 1968 to create a
program of nursing that would be accessible to students in Central Florida. This collection contains
the correspondence, minutes, and curriculum pertaining to the creation and implementation of the Department
of Nursing at UCF.
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The collection encompasses the professional files of Leslie Ellis, who served the University
of Central Florida in a variety of positions, including professor, Dean and Associate Vice President
of Graduate Studies and Research, director of Research Park and interim Dean of the College
of Health and Public Affairs. These files represent his tenure as acting President and Vice
President for Academic Affairs for the University, and come largely from the years 1978 to 1980.
The collection contain correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and other materials related
to Ellis' wide range of responsibilities as acting President and Vice President for Academic
Affairs.
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From its beginning, the Equal Opportunity Office has facilitated campus policies and programs
for students, faculty, staff, applicants, visitors, and community members in accordance with
statutes and guidelines. The collection holds materials concerning the University’s implementation
of federal affirmative action programs and civil rights regulations during the 1970’s as well
as the affects on faculty, staff, students, recruitment practices, and federal funding to the
University.
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Records of the University Facilities Planning office.
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This collection contains audits and associated materials created by the University of Central
Florida's Office of Finance and Accounting.
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The collection contains the administrative papers of the first vice-president of Florida
Technological University, Carroll B. Grambrell, Jr. There are accreditation reports, self study
reports, academic programs, administrative reviews, Board of Regents reports and minutes, allocation
documents, Sunshine Law, Dean's Council minutes, articulation agreement, foreign study programs,
and honors programs. Other topics include academic program reviews, branch campuses, transfer
students, academic policies, progress reports, degree programs, grade policies, registration,
student problems, sex equity study, Faculty Senate, faculty evaluation, chairperson evaluation,
faculty development, faculty promotion, current issues in higher education, and evaluation of
the president.
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Files showing the history of the General Counsel Office at the University of Central Florida.
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This collection encompasses the Office of Graduate Studies at Florida Technological University
and the University of Central Florida from 1970 until 1991. Although the Office changed names
and directors numerous times throughout the twenty year time span of the collection, it collected
the same information on how various graduate programs at the University were initiated and information
about the programs once they were begun.
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The Medical Record Administration program, now known as Health Information Management program, was
founded in 1969 to assist students in learning medical record-keeping. This collection includes accreditation
documents, correspondence, and meeting minutes.
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Correspondences, news clippings, photographs and advertisements document the Distinguished
Lecturers series sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program. Lecture subjects range from the Holocaust
to Modern Israeli issues.
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Administrative records of the first two library directors.
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The records contain slides and in many cases documentation such as programs, pamphlets, patron
comment sheets, local newspaper articles advertising and critiquing the exhibits. The library
was the first building to be built on the campus, thus making the library's entryway primary
space for all university departments to showcase various presentations or projects where they
otherwise could not. This collection highlights the many varied campus exhibits, while showing
how the library functioned as a multi-use building in the university's early years. This collection
also documents the American Library Association traveling exhibit Frankenstein: Penetrating
the Secrets of Nature (2004) and the local UCF events surrounding the exhibit.
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Exhibit Web Page
Architectural drawings of the original library building and the addition to the library and
photographs of library staff and patrons.
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The University Marketing Office Publications are a collection of materials that were created
by the university for marketing purposes. These materials are comprised of pamphlets, brochures,
calendars, informational handouts, event programs, and book inserts. All of these materials
cover a wide variety of clubs, colleges, and organizations affiliated with the university.
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Alphabetical Files of campus projects.
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This collection contains documents related to the UCF Police Department. Included are a number of
training and evaluation manuals, memoranda, related UCF memorabilia and newspaper clippings that highlight
police activities both on campus and in the community.
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The Registrar's Office maintains student records and provides important services, such as transcript
requests, enrollment verification, and veteran services. This collection includes memoranda from university
departments, correspondence, employment information, registration information, and operation manuals.
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University Relations Records includes correspondence, brochures, invoices, requisitions,
purchase orders, reimbursement forms, manuscripts, reports, forms, news releases and clippings.
The University Relations records are divided into series by unit or division and then partially
arranged by subject and content. The bulk of the records covers D. Robert McGinnis's tenure
as Vice-president for University Relations.
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The Office of Research and Commercialization serves UCF scholars as the official liaison
between UCF and external agencies by providing a helping hand for faculty working their way
through the funding and contract management process. The Office helps establish connections
with the agency and individuals who invest in the promise of research and creative activities.
During the 1980s the office was known as the Office and Research and Graduate Studies, which
were eventually separated into two separate offices.
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The division of Student Development and Enrollment Services began as the Office of Student
Affairs when Florida Technological University opened to students in 1968. Since that time the
division has overseen the work of various offices and departments on campus dedicated to enhancing
the quality of the university as a whole and the quality of the student experience. This collection
contains materials about the activities of many of the offices, departments, and programs contained
within SDES.
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This collection encompasses the file archives of the Office of the Vice President for Research
for the University of Central Florida, Michael Bass. It includes read files, or a description
of University events in a given month, correspondence files, information regarding partnerships
with outside institutions, collaborations with University institutions and general administrative
files.
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This collection includes documents pertaining to the Academic Advising Council before it was
organized. There is also a handbook from after the council was formed.
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Originally a volunteer organization, the UCF Alumni Association was founded in 1971 to foster
relationships between the university and its alumni. Included in this collection are minutes,
correspondence, brochures and related materials detailing the association's administration and
outreach programs.
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This document explains the types of biotic communities found on the Florida Technological
University Campus in 1971 and makes recommendations for actions to preserve those communities
as the campus develops. The university was renamed in 1979 to the University of Central Florida.
This document contains a letter explaining its purpose, a report, photographs of the campus
and an appendix.
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A history of the Brevard campus from 1966 to 1983 with an appendix consisting of photocopies
of correspondence, memoranda, news clippings, news releases and pamphlets which documents the
establishment of the Brevard campus and the 2+2 program as well as the career of Anthony P.
Tesori.
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Minutes of the University Faculty Senate.
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The University of Central Florida Faculty and Alumni Manuscripts Collection features original
manuscript materials for several UCF affiliated writers. Many of the writers presented here
are retired history professors of UCF. In some cases, these professors have provided their research
notes in addition to their manuscripts. Other writers are UCF alumni who are still professionals
in the Central Florida community.
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The Lou Frey Institute for Politics & Government at the University of Central Florida was
founded in January 2003 as a nonpartisan foundation that fosters civic education primarily for
college and high school students but also for the general public. The Institute promotes informed
discussion of issues from diverse viewpoints, encourages participation in the political process,
and supports research on politics and policy. These programs include biannual symposia, and
this collection mainly consists of advertising materials and DVDs of the symposia presentations.
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Initially founded as the FTU Foundation, Inc. in 1969, the UCF Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit
organization that performs a multitude of services for the University of Central Florida, including
acting as financial advisors, real estate consultants, and the university's primary fund-raising
arm. This collection contains materials pertaining to the FTU/UCF Foundation, its creation,
operation and fund-raising projects.
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The UCF Retirement Association, Inc. was organized in 1989 to promote the general welfare
of UCF retirees and the university community. This collection consists of one album of photographs,
newsletters and correspondence that documents the association's activities up to its 10th anniversary.
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The UCF Small Business Development Center was founded in 1980-81 to foster the growth of
small businesses throughout the Central Florida area. The following are documents encompassing
the four branches (Main, Brevard, Daytona, and Seminole) of the SBDC. The collection contains
quarterly reports and training course records from the years 1998-2002.
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The UCF Staff Council laid its groundwork in 1971 with its first chairman Richard V. Neuhaus.
Since then the council has been involved in numerous activities including fund raisers, meetings,
charter revisions, elections, and award dinners. This collection is the written records along
with a few audio records of the staff council's accomplishments and undertakings from 1971-2002.
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The Strategic Planning Council Records contains surveys, analyses, and reports chronicling the work
of the Strategic Planning Council in 1991. Ranging from 1987-1992, the collection documents the Strategic
Planning Council of UCF in assessing areas of the university that need improvement and its collection of
reports explaining how to act upon these areas throughout the next decade.
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This collection contains the records from UCF's Student Government Association from 1983
through 2002. Many areas of student government are covered, including planning the student union,
senate retreats, and monthly reports, but the bulk of files are forms completed by campus clubs
and organizations requesting funds. These forms summarize the clubs aims, activities and
membership numbers.
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The FTU/UCF Theatre Collection documents the rise of the UCF theatre program. Materials include
playbills, programs, photographs, reviews, newspaper clippings, posters and brochures. Also
included is a scrapbook of items from the early theatre program and Alpha Psi Omega, the national
honorary theatre fraternity.
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This collection contains correspondence, newsletters, meeting minutes, invitations to events,
and photographs documenting the activities of the UCF Town and Gown Council, an organization
committed to building bridges between the university and the Orlando community. Records from
the Council's creation in 1982 until 2004 are included.
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Town and Gown Website
Papers documents the history of the University's organization for women from its inception
in 1969 until the present day. Materials in the collection include officer files of the president,
secretary and treasurer, the club's publications, such as newsletters and yearbooks, and special
event files documenting the different programs of the club. The collection also includes the
scrapbooks created each year by the Club's historian, as well as other photographs and memorabilia.
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