Archives Holdings & Finding Aids
The Oakland University Archives is the chief resource for historical materials about Oakland University. It collects, organizes, preserves, and makes accessible the significant records that chronicle the university’s history since its founding in 1957.
Listed below is a selection of materials you can expect to find:
For a complete list of collections, search finding aids (detailed inventories of collections).
Administrative Offices
- Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes (1957 - present)
- University Senate Meeting Minutes (1960 - present)
- Chronology of University Senate Actions
- Subject Index to Senate Actions
- digitized Senate collection in OUR@oakland
- 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
- Durward B. (Woody) Varner
- Donald O'Dowd
- Joseph Champagne
- Sandra Packard
- Gary Russi
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
- Historic Oakland University Documents
- 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
- OU Schedules of Classes
- OU Telephone Directories
- Commencement Programs
- Oakland University Yearbooks (Ascendent, MSUO Story, Oak Leaves, Charter)
- Newspapers and Newsletters, including digitized materials:
- Oakland University Magazine
- Staff publications
(Oakland University News, MSUO Staff Bulletin) - Student newspapers
- 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)