Archives Holdings & Finding Aids
The collections held in physical format in the OU Archives are listed below.
When digital copies exist, the link has been provided.
Administrative Offices
- Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes (1957 - present)
- University Senate Meeting Minutes (1960 - present)
- Oakland University Annual Reports online and Annual Reports Inventory
- Office of the President
- MSUO Administrative Group Meeting Minutes (1959-1966)
- University Planning Documents
- Strategic Planning
- Campus and Facilities
- Oakland University Budget (1966-current)
- Oakland University Foundation
- Division of Continuing Education
- Continuum Center
- Center for International Studies
- Office of Institutional Research
- Ad Hoc Blue Ribbon Commission on Education Reform (1970-1971)
- Senate Entry-Year Committee (1978-1979)
- Residence Halls collection
- Center for Community and Human Development
- Academic Computing Committee
- Information Technology
Presidents
Other Administrative Officers
- Donald O'Dowd (Provost)
- Frederick W. Obear (Provost, Vice-provost, Dean of Freshmen)
- Louis Esposito (Provost)
- George T. Matthews (Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, interim president)
- Keith Kleckner (Provost)
- Garry Russi (Provost)
- Virinder K. Moudgil (Provost)
- William Connellan
- Robert G. Hoopes
- Lowell Eklund
- Thomas Atkinson
- Billie DeMont
- Tamara Jhashi
- Priscilla Hildum
Student Affairs
- Student Activities Board (SAB)
- Student Affairs Newsletters
- Manuel Pierson Papers
Academic Units
- College of Arts & Sciences
- Department of History
- Music, Theater and Dance
- Academy of Dramatic Art
- Honors College
- Honors College Theses (1980-present)
- Library
- School of Business Administration
- School of Education and Human Services
- School of Engineering and Computer Sciences
- School of Health Sciences
- School of Nursing
- School of Performing Arts
- Center for General and Career Studies
- Association for Inerdisciplinary Studies
- Project Upward Bound
History
- Meadow Brook Seminars (1958-1959)
- Historic Oakland University Documents (1956-1963)
- Oakland University Anniversaries
- Oakland University Chronicles
(available in print or online - see also topical index) - Oakland University Chronicles Oral History Project records
- Sigma XI
- American Association of University Professors Oakland University Chapter
- George Karas collection
Publications
- OU Course Catalogs (1959-)
- OU Schedules of Classes
- OU Telephone Directories (1959-)
- Commencement Programs
- Oakland University Yearbooks (Ascendent, MSUO Story, Oak Leaves, Charter)
- Newspapers and Newsletters, including digitized materials:
- Office of Institutional Research - Reports (1966 - 1998)
- In the Company of Writers
- Communication and Marketing publications
(news releases, advertisements, brochures, magazines, public relations materials)
Student Life
- Dormitory Council (1965-1972)
- Student Congress (1972-)
- Fitzgerald House Council (1965-1993)
- Student publications
(see list in Newspapers and Newsletters inventory) - Student Organizations collection
- Greek Organizations collection
- Association of Women Students
- Commission on Student Life
- Student Enterprise Theatre
- Student Protest Movements
- New Student Information collection
- Student Leaders Oral Histories (interviews of past student leaders at OU since 1972)
- Edward Gehres, Charter Class alumni
- James Wolfe, Charter Class alumni
- Gamma Epsilon chapter, Delta Omicron
- Student Library Committee
- Judith (Bair) Bank, Charter Class alumni
- Leonard J. Kniffel, Class of 1970
Prominent Faculty and Alumni
- David DiChiera (Personal papers of David DiChiera, founder of the Michigan Opera Theatre, who worked at OU as a professor and department chair between 1962 and 1972)
- Curtis Armstrong (Personal papers of Curtis Armstrong, a 1975 graduate of OU’s Academy of Dramatic Art and successful movie and television actor)
- Richard Stamps collection
The Arts and Recreation
- Meadow Brook / Oakland University Art Gallery
- Meadow Brook Music Festival Programs
- Meadow Brook Music Festival records
- Jan Marshall - Meadow Brook Music Festival Women’s Committee
- Meadow Brook Fair
- Meadow Brook Summer School of Music
- Meadow Brook Theater
- Slavic Folk Ensemble
- Athletics Collection
Meadow Brook Hall
- Wilson / Dodge Collection
- Meadow Brook Hall Collection
- John Cameron papers
- Concours d'Elegance
Other
- Architectural Drawings and Maps
- Art collection
- Posters and Banners
- Historical recordings
- Photographs
- Slides
- Subject Files (vertical file materials)
- Oakland University Alumni Association
- Friends of Oakland University
- American Association of University Professors Oakland University Chapter
- Association of Administrative Professionals
- AP Assembly
- Women of Oakland University
- Creative Arts Council
- Art in Oakland County - Art History Project
- Friends of the Library
See also the Oakland University website, 1997-present (Wayback Machine)