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Office of Marketing and Communications, WSU Vancouver: Campus Photographs, Publications and Documents, 1984-2007

 Collection
Identifier: WSUV.Archives.003

Scope and Contents note

Photographs in the collection were accumulated from marketing campaigns over the years since the 1980s.These include both candid and staged photographs of students using campus facilities. Other photographs were collected to document graduation ceremonies and special events. A small number of photographs of faculty, staff and administration are also included in the collection.

Publications in the collection consist of academic programs and commencement programs as well as campus community reports issued between 1992 and 2004. Publications were often collected as samples of public relations communications between the campus and general community. These include the WSU Vancouver MEMO and Notes for Neighbors. Other publications like the Higher Education Access for Southwest Washington were collected to document WSU Vancouver's participation towards higher education in the region.

A number of ephemera is present in the collection. Copies of flyers and brochures for marketing campaigns as well as advertisements for previous events, dedications and memorials are indexed in the collection.

VHS videocassettes of recordings from WSU Vancouver's lecture hall are included in the collection. These tapes consist of guest speakers and forums captured by Vancouver's community television broadcast station CVTV-23. Topics include NAFTA, globalization, the endangered salmon and regional geology. A video of Professor Lori Irving's memorial and the dedication of Pillars of Fulfillment sculpture are also included in the collection. Audio in the collection consists of two radio advertisements for WSU Vancouver for broadcast of KUFO and KKJZ.

Dates

  • 1984-2007

Biographical/Historical note

Washington State University Vancouver originated from the efforts of the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education (SWJCE), which began as the collaboration between Washington State University, Evergreen State College and Clark Community College in 1983. The Joint Center held its first classes at Hudson’s Bay High School, offering a handful of courses in engineering and computer programming. In order to meet the expectations for further growth in enrollment, the Joint Center moved to the Bauer Hall building on the Clark College campus and in 1989 formally established itself as Washington State University Vancouver, a branch of the state’s land-grant institution. For nearly seven years WSU Vancouver expanded its academics, faculty and enrollment at Bauer Hall giving an opportunity for residents in Southwest Washington to attend upper division level courses for undergraduate and Master degree programs.

In 1996 WSU Vancouver moved to its permanent location in Salmon Creek. Since then, the WSU Vancouver campus has continued to expand and add new academic programs. The accumulation of campus photographs, publications, and documents originated just prior to WSU Vancouver's establishment in 1987. In the early 1990s, these assets were held by the Office of Campus Advancement, a precursor to WSU Vancouver's Office of Marketing and Communications and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations. Campus Advancement served as a central contact for information about the campus and oversaw campus fundraising, event planning, internal and external communications and a host of other activities conducted by Marketing and Communications and Development and Alumni Relations. The office split into two separate departments at the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year. At that time, historical assests formerlly held by Campus Advancement were maintained by the Office of Marketing and Communications who then deposited the the early photographs, publications, and documents in the Archives and Special Collections in 2008.

Extent

5.85 Linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The collection consists of campus photographs, documents and publications created or acquired by the staff of the WSU Vancouver Marketing and Communications. Dates of items range from the years between 1984 and 2007. The collection includes materials from the original campus located at Clark College’s Bauer Hall as well as from the present day’s Salmon Creek location. Part of the UA-WSUV-2008-01 accession.

Arrangement note

The organization of this collection is arranged by series defined by material type. Subsequent organization is determined by subject categories within the series.

Series A: Photographs: Graduation and Commencement (1987-2002) Buildings People Events (1986-2003)

Series B: Campus Publications: Commencement Programs (1991-2006) Academic Programs (1986-1992) Course Schedules (1990-1994) Community Reports (1992-2004, 2006-2007) VanCougar (1991-1998; several issues missing) Notes for Neighbors (1996-2000) WSU Vancouver MEMO (1986-1990) Misc. Campus Publications Higher Education Access for Southwest Washington

Series C: Campus Ephemera: Documents, brochures, flyers and pamphlets; dedications, events and memorials, general campus information and academic information

Series D: Audio/Video Radio advertisements and videos of guest lectures, forums, memorials and dedications.

Title
Guide to WSU Vancouver: Campus Photographs, Publications, and Documents, 1984-2007 WSUV.Archives.003
Author
Finding aid prepared by Robert Schimelpfenig
Date
January 2008
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Washington State University Vancouver, Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave
Vancouver WA 98686 United States
360-546-9249