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Microfilm copy of records of the West Virginia University Faculty Senate from 1945 to 1958 and the Council of Administration from 1925 to 1945. Faculty Senate meeting minutes from 1945 provide information about the composition of the Senate and the creation of and the responsibilities of various committees. Minutes from the later years include committee reports; lists of members; the academic calendar; academic affairs; tenure and retirement; grading policies; instructional policies; and student affairs. Minutes also contain committee agendas and reports. Also included on this reel are minutes of the Council of Administration from 1925 to 1945. These chiefly discuss student affairs, including undergraduate student marriage, football schedules, new courses, residence requirements, and Greek organizations.

Charter for Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, 1910, with names of Charter members. Charter for the Establishment of a chapter of the society of the Sigma Xi at WVU, 1939, with names of Charter members.

Two lists, alphabetical and chronological, of honorary degree recipients of West Virginia University. Recipients include Newton D. Baker, Waitman Barbe, Michael Benedum, Luis Borges, Pearl Buck, Robert C. Byrd, Henry S. Commager, Roy Bird Cook, Earl Core, John J. Cornwell, Marmaduke Dent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry D. Hatfield, John L. Lewis, J.A. McBride, Jennings Randolph, Sam Rayburn, Harold E. Stassen, Cyrus Vance, I.C. White, and Charles Yeager.

Typed drafts of Medical Education In West Virginia University by Gideon S. Dodds and Edward J. Van Liere. This eighteen volume draft set of research notes was compiled (1953-64) by WVU Physiology professor, Van Liere and WVU Embryology professor and Medical Faculty Committee officer, Dodds. There are also two volumes of scholarship statistics on WVU Medical students, 1932-64.

Collection consists of ephemera, publications, and other memorabilia related to the history of the West Virginia University. Includes dance cards and programs (1896-1932, 1951, undated); programs for school clubs, memorials, musical performances (1892-1931, 1965-1967); commencement programs and invitations (1875-1950); sporting event and concert tickets (1895-1975); student and university publications (1899-1963, undated); and other ephemera. Dance cards and programs pertain to various fraternities and sororities, the military department, student clubs, and general dances. Publications include student handbooks, a directory, and a November 1923 issue of the Athenaeum.

West Virginia University memorabilia consists of artifacts and other materials related to the history of the University. Items include pins, key chains, a mug, a pom-pom used in connection with a football game, metal ornaments depicting campus buildings, two hats (including baseball cap from ca. 1910-1920), dance cards, programs for various events and ceremonies, and a sign advertising a website where students participating in Commencement 2012 could share memories of their time at WVU (2012). Also includes one WVU greeting card from President Hardesty and his wife dating from circa 2000-2007, featuring three-dimensional pop-up of Martin Hall. There are many addenda in this collection, including artifacts such as beanies issued to male (blue with gold visor) and female (white with no visor) members respectively of the centenary class of 1971 (who were first-year students in 1967), a centenary badge, a class ring of WVU alumnus Barrent R. Kittle (1968), and a decorative plate commemorating the 25th anniversary of the four-year School of Medicine (1985). Addendum of 2018/10/03 consists of freshman beanie of 1973.

Fifty large color photographs mounted on boards (many are ca. 11 in. x 14 in.) documenting the Downtown and Evansdale campuses of West Virginia University. Includes images of the Mountainlair Student Union, Towers Dormitories, Mountaineer Field, WVU Marching Band, University Farm, Creative Arts Center (including students performing puppets shows at the CAC), President's house, Core Arboretum, and Mont Chateau, among others. Also includes two sepia tone, mounted images of a wagon on Falling Run and the Parthenon Literary Society Room in Martin Hall, ca. 1890-1910.

Contains copies of the Athenaeum, 1888-1891, and the Echo, 1887. The Echo was a predecessor of the Athenaeum. Also includes commencement announcements and other student memorabilia, newspaper clippings from Moundsville relating to the mound and Scott Powell, and other clippings apparently compiled by Charles Rankin.

370 slides of images documenting mostly WVU (including facilities and students), sometimes Morgantown, dating from ca. 1900-1950. These materials were assembled by professor Leonard Davis of the Department of Speech Communication in the 1970s for public slide shows regarding WVU. Two cirkut photos of WVU classes, 12/5/1913 (8"x 42") and 12/6/1916 (8"x 36"). There is also one audio cassette tape.