Board of Trustees Records

For over 50 years, the Trustees of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) existed only as a subcommittee of the Carnegie Institute Board of Trustees, the The Carnegie Institute being comprised of the Carnegie Library, Museums, and Institute of Technology. The Institute of Technology was the last of these three institutions to be founded and its operation was to be controlled by the same Board as the first two institutions. On September 29, 1903, the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute appointed a committee to oversee the development of the school. The committee was called the Committee on the Carnegie Technical Schools of Pittsburgh and consisted of Messrs. Frew, Brashear, McConway, Scaife, Stevenson, Booth, and later Mr. Hamerschlag.

After classes began at the school in 1905, oversight continued to be in the hands of the Carnegie Institute and its Board of Trustees. A subcommittee of nine men had direct responsibility for the operations of the school.

In 1939 the By-laws for the Carnegie Institute of Technology were revised to give CIT more control of its own finances. Positions were added to the subcommittee that were not a part of the larger Board of Trustees. The name of the subcommittee became the "Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees on the Carnegie Institute of Technology." In addition, the President of the school finally had a seat on Carnegie Institute Board of Trustees.

In 1959 the Court of Common Pleas granted the Carnegie Institute of Technology a completely separate Board of Trustees. The new By-laws stated that "the business, property, and affairs of the Corporation [Carnegie Institute of Technology] shall be managed and controlled by its Board of Trustees."