Registrar's Office Records
Scope and Content Note
The Records of the Registrar's Office are housed in eight boxes and arranged into eight series. Series have been designated for annual reports, final examination schedules, honor rolls, miscellaneous, Official Registration books, registration statistics, schedules of classes, and oversized materials. These records are mostly student statistics and lists produced by the Office but also include correspondence, articles, booklets, and sample forms. The series reflect significant collections of five distinct types of information collected and made available by the Registrar's Office.
Dates
- Creation: 1905-2002
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1925-1970
Historical Sketch
The Office of the Registrar has existed at Carnegie Mellon University since the first students entered evening classes in 1905.
As the University grew, the duties of the Registrar became more streamlined to enrollment and student record keeping. Earl K. Collins was Registrar from 1940-1952. He was followed by William L. Rogers, who held the position until 1978. During Rogers' tenure, the Registrar's Office moved from the Division of Student Personnel and Welfare to the Division of Student Affairs, which was organized to coordinate the administrative functions of the increasing number of non-academic student activities. The Office was moved again in 1968 to the Office of the Vice President for Administration and Planning. It was also under Rogers that a computer system for statistics and grade keeping was introduced.
Harry Whitehead was Registrar from 1978-1982. He was succeeded by Richard Rainsberger.
Extent
7.5 Linear feet (9 boxes)
Language
English
Overview
This collections contains the records of the Registrar's Office and consists of annual reports, final examination schedules, honor rolls, Official Registration books, registration statistics, and schedules of classes. These records are mostly student statistics and lists produced by the Office but also include correspondence, articles, booklets, and sample forms.
Physical Location
Shelves 2-3
Provenance
These materials were received in three accessions from Iver Herbert Lundgren, Mark L. Seibert, and perhaps Anna Catherine Skoog.
Separations
One folder of oversized materials have been separated and stored in the Hunt Library second floor map case in drawer 9. A list of the materials can be found in series seven.
Processor
Cassandra Nespor
- Title
- Registrar's Office Records, 1905-2002
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- July 19, 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Carnegie Mellon University Archives Repository