Abstract In 1990, Eastern Michigan University president William E. Shelton initiated a campus wide strategic initiative to build a "Learning University." The President's Commission on the Learning University records documents this undertaking which was also known as the President's Commission on Blueprint 150. The commission was created to lead the initiative and oversee the work of several campus task forces exloring every aspect of EMU life and its effect on...

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The materials in the President's Executive Board records, 1913-1985, are arranged chronologically and are titled with the name used during the time period. A mix of correspondence and meeting minutes, the bulk of the collection are the approved minutes of meetings held with the University President and his advisors: Vice President for Instruction, Vice President for Student Affairs, etc.

Abstract The Principal and Presidential portrait and photograph collection contains the drawings and photographic portraits and other photographs of the administrators of the Michigan State Normal School (when they were known as Principals), Michigan State Normal College, Eastern Michigan College and Eastern Michigan University. The inclusive dates listed next to the administrators names are the dates of their tenure in office. The photographs of Charles McKenney have...

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The Richard Gause Boone papers document the ninth president of the Michigan State Normal College, who served from 1893 to 1899. His papers include such materials as publications, MSNC curriculum and policies, clippings, correspondence, and scholar biographies.

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Samuel A. Kirkpatrick was the 19th president of Eastern Michigan University, serving from 2000 through 2004. The Samuel A. Kirkpatrick papers include documentation from his inauguration, outreach programs and events on campus, campus development and proposals, and the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan Board Meetings. Records date from 2000 to 2004.

Abstract The Susan Martin collection includes a small sample of materials produced by the Office of the President during Martin's tenure as President of Eastern Michigan University, beginning in 2008 and ending with her retirement in 2015. Materials include clippings, correspondence and e-mail, photographs, inauguration materials, gifts to the President to celebrate her inaguration, reports to the Board of Regents, and materials related to events on campus in which...

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The University House records document the construction and controversy surrounding the President's home at Eastern Michigan University. The collection includes clippings, correspondence, news releases, and the Performance Audit of the home. The collection is arranged alphabetically. Records date from 2000-2009, with the bulk of information from 2003-2004.

Abstract The University Photograph files is the photographic record of the Michigan State Normal School, Michigan State Normal College, Eastern Michigan College and Eastern Michigan University. Although additional photographs reside in other collections, these subject files were compiled from photographs from the official university photographer, alumni, Aurora and the Normal News and ...

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The University Presidents slide collectioncontains a single slide of each former president listed in the collection. The slides are arranged in chronological order according to when each person served as president of the University.

Abstract William E. Shelton was president of Eastern Michigan University from 1989 - 2000, when he left for East Carolina University and the Ironwood Consulting Group. The William E. Shelton collection documents his tenure at EMU. The records in this collection are organized as they were given to University Archives and are loosely organized by topic, with nineteen identifiable series and eleven identifiable sub-series. Identifiable series include National Education Commission on Time and...