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Archival description
Records of Chi Sigma Chi
211 · Collection · 1950-1981

This collection contains the records of the Chi Sigma Chi. Included is two books of financial records, one meeting minutes book, photographs, and membership cards.

Chi Sigma Chi
Records of Gamma Sigma Sigma
197 · Collection · 1908 - 1962

This collection contains the records of Gamma Sigma Sigma, previously called Sigma Theta Chi, and the Story Teller’s Club. Included are three meeting minute books, two treasurer’s books that document some of the group's finances, and correspondence with Isabel Lawrence who organized the Story Teller’s Club. Also included is the club scrapbook which has photos, programs, and newspaper clippings. There are also records pertaining to the name change from Story Teller's Club, to Sigma Theta Chi, to Gamma Sigma Sigma.

Gamma Sigma Sigma
37 · Collection · 1934-2003

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.

Institutional Effectiveness
190 · Collection · 1968-2014

This collection contains records from the Center for International Studies at St. Cloud State University. Items in this collection date from 1968 to 2014, the majority of which are from the mid-1970s to the late-1980s. Mostly correspondence related to international study, this collection also includes budget ledgers, program publications, newsletters, program yearbooks, and student handbooks.

This records are arranged in three series.

Series 1: Areas of Study

These records are separated by the various locations students studied abroad. Information related to program planning, such as program financing and budgeting, staffing, coursework and student and faculty accommodations can be found here. There is also information on program promotion and assessment. The majority of these files are on the Denmark and England programs.

Series 2: Administrative Records

These records are made up of department correspondence, reports, budgets, newsletters, and publications that contain information related to maintaining and expanding of International Studies. Special attention is given to the promotion of the unit and its study abroad programs. These records also include a few specific programs not associated with a particular location such as Academic Travel Abroad, Common Market Program, Exchange Program Agreements, Foreign Student and Foreign Student Advisor records, and the Fine Arts in Europe program. Information on these programs includes program descriptions, planning, and evaluations.

Series 3: Committees

These records are produced by committees created to review and advise the International Studies program that date mostly in the 1980s and early 1990s.

International Studies
Records of Kaleidoscope
12 · Collection · 1990-2020+

This collection contains literary and artistic publications that have been put together by students, faculty, and staff at St. Cloud State University.  The items in this collection date from 1990 to 2006.  Additions to this collection may be ongoing.

The magazine is funded through an SCSU Cultural Diversity Committee allocation and is sponsored through St. Cloud State’s writing center, the Write Place.  The contributors to the magazine retain all rights to their work(s).  Kaleodiscope is published once a year.

More information on the publication, including submissions guidelines. Past issues can be found at the following website: https://web.stcloudstate.edu/kaleidoscope/. There may be issues on the website that University Archives does not have physical copies for and vice versa.

St. Cloud State University
Records of Kappa Delta Pi
Collection · 1932 - 2024

This collection contains records of the Gamma Pi chapter of the honorary teacher fraternity Kappa Delta Pi.

The records here include membership lists and materials, event records, most importantly the initiation programs, and annual reports for the chapter. The records date mostly from the 1970s until the early 1990s, but some also date to the 1930s. The collection does contain the meeting minutes of the chapter, including those establishing the chapter at St. Cloud State.

Kappa Delta Pi
209 · Collection · 1930-1940

This collection contains the records of the Library Tri-D Club.  The record book was compiled in 1940 by head librarian Edith Grannis, however the records within the book span 1930-1940. Records included are the constitution and code of loyalties, meeting minutes, and photographs.

Library Tri-D Club
208 · Collection · 1890-1894

This collection contains the records of the Normal Athletic Club.  Included is one meeting minutes book.

Normal Athletic Club
Records of Normalia
21 · Collection · 1892-1904

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.

St. Cloud State University
Records of Nuance
23 · Collection · 1953-1954

This collection contains literary and artistic submission by St. Cloud State students from 1953 to 1954.  Poems and short stories written by students were published.

Three issues of Nuance were published.

Records are located at 29D.4a.

Nuance