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Universities and colleges

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms

Found in 450 Collections and/or Records:

Rice University Student memories records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0548
Abstract

Written memoirs and typed transcripts of interviews relating student experiences at Rice Institute, later Rice University, representing many of the classes between the years 1916 and 1976. Half of these materials are in the form of 50th reunion booklets arranged by class year, and half of them are individual student's memories arranged by the student's last name.

Dates: 1918-1986

Rice University Student Organizations records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0039
Abstract

This collection consists of the membership and activity records of thirteen Rice Institute student organizations. The earliest date from 1938, and the latest are from 1962.

Dates: 1938 - 1962

Rice University Studies editorial review board records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0201
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence which concerns primarily the names of faculty members appointed annually by the President to serve on the Rice University Studies Review Board, which in the 1960s had been called the Rice University Studies Committee. In 1982 the Rice University Studies Review Board was renamed the Rice University Press Committee. Names of members of this committee for 1982-83, 1983-84, and 1985-86 are also included.

Dates: 1964 - 1986

Rice University Task Force on Faculty and Shared Governance records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0260
Abstract

The collection consists of working papers, meeting minutes, committee reports, and website materials generated during the process that created the Faculty Senate as the system of governance at Rice University.

Dates: 2002-2005, 2019

Rice University The Rice Thresher records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0354
Abstract

These records mostly include the photographs and negatives taken by "The Rice Thresher's" photographers, as well as research and issues pertaining to Rice University's student newspaper.

Dates: 1962 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1992 - 2003

Rice University Thresher student newspaper editor (Brady Tyson) papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0030
Abstract

The collection consists of 1948 and 1949 correspondence with Brady Tyson, editor of the Rice Thresher; his editorials favoring admission of qualified African Americans to Rice Institute; and newspaper reports on the Tyson material and public response to it. The content ends with President Huston’s letter to the editor of the Thresher, pointing out that Rice was chartered for white students only.

Dates: 1948 - 1949

Rice University Treasurer's Office records regarding Town Lot Sales Records and Rice Hotel and Houston Endowment

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0002
Abstract

The collection consists of sales/payment records, tax records, maps, deeds, and correspondence concerning the town lots received by the Rice Institute from the Rice Estate and others purchased in later years. Also included are deeds, construction contracts, inventories, tax records, and correspondence concerning the Rice Hotel and 99-year lease with the Houston Endowment.

Dates: 1868 - 1986

Rice University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0236
Abstract

The collection consists of records of the work of the faculty Committee on the Undergraduate Curriculum over the period 1966 through 1990. There are membership lists, meeting minutes, reports, memoranda, and correspondence. Topics covered include general graduation requirements, specific requirements in particular departments, evaluation of particular programs, student advising, curriculum revision, and debate about credit for Advanced Placement courses.

Dates: 1964 - 2017

Rice University, University Council records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0110
Abstract:

Minutes, correspondence, notes, member lists, election records, for the University Council and the Tenured University Council of Rice University, 1971-2005.

Dates: 1971 - 2005

Rice University, University Relations Dept. Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0111
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, drafts, memos created and collected by the University Relations Department in support of their role as the University's media relations department for the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, hosted by Rice University.

Dates: 1989 - 1991