Item: Montana State University, Local Executive Board minutes, 1893-1970
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Finding Aid Title: Montana State University, Local Executive Board minutes, 1893-1970
Finding Aid Collection Number: Accession 87032
Date Range of Collection: 1893-1970
Creator of Materials: Montana State University. Local Executive Board
Content Description: The minutes of the Local Executive Board of Montana State University trace its history from the first meetings in 1893 to those held in 1970. As might be expected, the earliest minutes have a more extensive record of the Board's deliberations (which concerned a wider variety of governance issues) than later documents. Personnel matters, buildings and grounds maintenance, curriculum discussions, management of the experiment station farm, and financial management data introduced during frequent meetings are recorded in detail within the first volume encompassing the years 1893-1902. The second volume, 1902-1907 also records more detail of meetings, but towards the end of the volume financial reports dominate. The next four volumes, covering the years 1907 to the first half of 1917, are almost entirely financial reports. When the narrative portion of the minutes resume during the latter half of 1917 in volume 6, the information demonstrates the shift from active governance to more advisory role taking place during less frequent meetings. The volumes have been chronologically arranged, with laid in materials removed and placed in appropriately labeled folders in box 2.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv90386
Keywords: msu history, clubs and organizations, experiment stations, agriculture and ranching
Subjects: Montana State University and Perspectives on Higher Education
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