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This collection contains records of Institutional Effectiveness. Founded in the late 1930s, the main task of this office was to "organize and conduct research studies to provide information and data, serving as a basis for University decision making..." The bulk of the records here serve that purpose, gathering and presenting information about St. Cloud State students, faculty, curriculum, and facilities.

Series 1: Administrative Records

This series contains annual reports, history of Institutional Effectiveness, and faculty rosters.  The faculty rosters are significant as they list biographical information about St. Cloud State faculty, including salary.  There are additional faculty rosters in Series 2 on microfiche.

Series 2: Reports

This series has a wide variety of reports, nearly all related to St. Cloud State.  Many of the reports are related to students, including enrollment, ACT profiles of incoming freshmen, grade distribution, and faculty-student ratios.  Other reports are arranged by topic and are listed individually to facilitate access.

Other significant records include those that give a snapshot of St. Cloud State University. This includes the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), 1966-1980, to the federal government's Department of Education. HEGIS reported on student enrollment, campus facilities devoted to instruction, finances of the university, and degrees awarded. The summary of academic data, dating from 1982 to 2003, compiled information at the department, college and university level about students and student enrollment, including year, gender and major, faculty and staff, credits generated, and class size.

Microfiche is included in this series, likely reports run from the office's database. By academic term, these records report on student enrollment, faculty, instructional load, courses offered and their history, ethnic and racial background of students, students martial status, and transfers to St. Cloud State.

University Archives does have digital records taken from this office's website but are not included in this finding aid.

93 monthly issues of the Normalia were published between 1892 and 1904. Totaling between 20-28 pages for each issue, 8-10 issues were published a year. Faculty, and later, students, were responsible for the content.

The Normalia was a mix of a traditional newspaper and journal. Much of each issue was devoted to journal articles that were written by students and faculty of St. Cloud State. Topics for these articles widely ranged, though much focused on education. Articles varied from studies of children who were attending the model school to biographies of historical figures to original fiction. Especially fascinating were letters written by students and alum fighting in the Spanish-American War in 1899 and 1900. Overall, Normalia gives a sense of what those on campus were studying and interested in.

There is some information about the happenings of campus in the Normalia . It mostly deals with students, faculty, and alums, including visits of alums to campus, travels of current students and faculty, as well as listing positions held by of alum. Many final issues of the academic year were devoted to the presentations of graduates at commencement. Other topics include meetings of the Literary Club, athletics, including football, hockey, and basketball, and scattered images of campus and campus personalities.

The Chronicle is a student published newspaper at St. Cloud State University. A wide variety of topics are covered including campus events, athletics, and people, as well as the St. Cloud community itself.

Times published per year varied over time, from twice a month to twice a week to once a month. The last printed issue dates was in April 2017, but printing of a physical issue began again in March 2019 and ended in March 2020. Issues were then born digital until April 2021. As of the spring of 2024, the Chronicle is entirely online.

Series four contains negatives, contact sheets, and photographs that appeared in each issue of the Chronicle from 1970 to 1990. Only a very small number of images appeared in each issue, yet there are images from a story that were not used or for images that did not make the final copy of the Chronicle.

10 monthly issues of the Normal School Recorder were published by students between 1916 and 1918.

The Normal School Recorder was a mix of a traditional newspaper and journal. Most of each issue was devoted to journal articles that were written by St. Cloud State students. Articles focused a great deal on campus; students wrote about family members, travel, athletics, student literary clubs, arrival and departure of faculty, and experience with others or events on campus. The publication often reported on the whereabouts and happenings of recent graduates. Especially fascinating were the stories about World War I, many documenting what was happening on campus, as well as the experiences of students and alums who were serving as soldiers.

All issues are available online. To see online, click on each issue in the finding aid and go to link in the Scope and Content Note. The issues can be found at https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/noscre.

This collection of records contains mostly publications, publicity, and biographical files of faculty and senior administrators at St. Cloud State. The publicatons and publicity provide a wide-ranging and rich view of the university, particularily from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Series 1. Administrative Files

This series contains adminstrative files of the unit, ranging from planning to events, publications, personnel and equipment, and budgets. The files primarily date from the late 1960s to the middle of the 1980s.

Series 2. Biographical Files

Dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, this series contains the publicity files created by University Communications for faculty and senior administrators. Types of documents included here are press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, curriculum vitae, and other documents that contain biographical information.

Series 3. Clippings

Dating mostly from the 1980s, this series focuses on articles on and about St. Cloud State University. Topics covered are wide ranging, including buildings, personnel, and budget issues.

Series 4. Press Releases and Publicity

Arranged in chronological order, this series contains press releases dating from the 1950s through the early 1990s. The records focus on a wide variety of topics including campus events, buildings, personnel, curriculum, and other contributions to the community.

Series 5. Publications

This series contains several campus publications that focus on the campus community, as well as the community. Dating from the 1960s to 2011+, these publications document events and other happenings on campus, personnel, and buildings related to St. Cloud State.

This collection contains campus telephone directories from 1924 through the 2014/15 academic year. Listed were the addresses, PO boxes, and phone numbers.  Often, the directory indicated the year of study for students.  Though the first few directories listed only students, most of the directories list faculty, staff, and students.  Faculty/staff were always listed separately from students.

Starting in the early 1960s, university offices were listed and, later, would list sub-units and personnel associated with the office.  Other information, such as campus maps and lists of buildings were included, as well as advertisements from local businesses and churches.

The final physical copy was printed for the 2014/15 academic year.

The faculty handbooks provide St. Cloud State faculty with a wide variety of information.  This includes how the university is organized, sometimes with organizational charts, benefits, history, tenure and promotion, academic issues such as class and academic freedom, and other policies, services, and units of St. Cloud State University.

This collection contains 52 oral histories, nearly all done between the mid 1970s and 1990, featuring St. Cloud State alums, long-time faculty, and top administrators, such as Presidents Budd, Wick, Graham, and McDonald. Done mostly by retired History faculty member Cal Gower, topics discussed in the oral histories include individual experiences and changes at St. Cloud State from the early 20th century, until the 1980s, as well as family background and life before and after time at St. Cloud State. Five additional interviews were done by Tom Steman in 2016, 2017, and 2019.

Some oral histories contain release forms from the interviewee and are noted.

Cal Gower conducted the interviews unless where noted.

The collection is in two series.

Series 1: Transcripts and other material

This series contains the final oral history transcripts for each interview, signed release forms, if they existed, as well as other material given by the interviewee (photos, newspaper clippings, ephemera).

Series 2: Tapes

This series contains the audio tapes from each oral history, ranging from one cassette tape to two.