Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

Athletics programs (incomplete set) published for competitions between the teams of West Virginia University and other colleges and universities. Includes mostly football and basketball programs. Programs for later decades are entitled "Mountaineer Illustrated."

Motion picture and audio recordings documenting bands at West Virginia University, including both concert and marching bands. Recorded events include football game pregame and halftime shows, concerts, parades, marching band competitions, drum corps competitions, and more.

Includes records generated by West Virginia University's College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (CPASS), which is now known as the College of Applied Human Sciences, School of Sport Sciences. The collection reflects everyday internal operations, staff and leadership activities, administrative plans and reports, outreach and community events, the CPASS Hall of Fame and other college events/awards, the development of campus facilities used by CPASS and WVU Athletics, and other subjects. Common material types include photographs, scrapbooks, bound reports, printed notes and correspondence, event programs and bulletins, magazines, and newspaper clippings. A box-level inventory is provided below.

Box 1: Dean Brooks's personal planners
Dates: 1993-2019

Box 2: Lifetime Activities Program and Children's Preparatory Program bulletins; correspondence and budgeting documents for outreach programs; CPASS Hall of Fame medal and pins; photographs of athletes, coaches, staff, students, and alumni at various CPASS events; photographs of Hall of Fame inductees and related Hall of Fame planning records; "WVU Sports Legends" event poster; signed copy of The Battle of the Potomac: A Century Long Football Rivalry between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Maryland Terrapins by Chip Zimmer
Dates: 1979-2021

Box 3: Photographs and newspaper clippings featuring Hall of Fame inductees; planning documents and photographs from CPASS's 70th anniversary celebration; 1993-2002 CPASS Annual Reports; 1980-2010s copies of CPASS newsletters; various event programs and local publications retained by staff
Dates: ca. 1980s-2019

Box 4: Purchasing orders and similar internal records documenting CPASS's move to the Coliseum Building in 1970; faculty and staff lists; materials from employee appreciation events; photographs of faculty, staff, and students; administrative committee documents
Dates: 1970-2017

Box 5: Copies of CPASS newsletters; strategic planning committee notes; notes regarding Brown vs. Board of Education "Family Reunion" commemoration; student and employee handbooks; planning documents for CPASS award ceremonies; various event programs and local publications retained by staff; 1996 CPASS five-year planning report; assorted material from Lifetime Activity programming; 1972 proposal for an intercollegiate athletic program for women at WVU
Dates: ca. 1972-2010s

Box 6: Hall of Fame nominations, correspondence, and newspaper clippings; photographs of staff and faculty at CPASS events; various CPASS reports and publications, 1991 Provost Reports; recruiting materials. Some event photographs are in digital format, and some recruiting materials are in audiovisual format; the rest of the box contains standard physical materials.
Dates: 1989-2013

Box 7: CPASS Annual Reports; Provost Reports; strategic planning documents; and other administrative records
Dates: ca. 1970s-1980s

Box 8: CPASS Annual Reports; Provost Reports; strategic planning documents; and other administrative records; commencement programs; copies of CPASS newsletters
Dates: ca. 1970s-1990s

Box 9: Newspaper clippings and magazine articles featuring CPASS activities; photographs and other documentation of joint programming with the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) and the West Virginia Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (WVA HPERD); list of 1991-2018 staff retirements; Annual Reports, Board of Governors report, and Vision report; event programs and related materials from awards ceremonies
Dates: 1991-2015

Box 10: Photographs from Dean Brook's research into West Virginia's segregated high schools and historically Black colleges/universities; event materials from Brown vs. Board of Education "Family Reunion" commemoration; University System of West Virginia, Response to Senate Bill 547 booklet; photographs from a trip to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; newspaper clippings featuring CPASS faculty and Dean Brooks's research
Dates: 1998-2007

Box 11: CPASS Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employment plans; Hall of Fame and Outstanding Alumnus Program planning documents
Dates: 1992-2010

Box 12: Photographs of Hall of Fame inductees; newspaper clippings collected by Dean Brooks; scrapbook of items retained from various CPASS events; NYSP summer camp scrapbook
Dates: 1988-2014

Box 13: Photographic slides used in A Century of Athletics at WVU, 1981-Present lecture delivered by CPASS professor J. William Douglas
Dates: ca. 1991

Oversize folder: Architectural drawings for the Shell Building; promotional posters for the 2014 Don Nehlen Lecture and 2016 Intercollegiate Athletics Lecture signed by speakers
Dates: 1980, 2014-2016

This collection includes records transferred from the West Virginia University College of Law (COL). Series I includes papers of various COL faculty, administrators, alumni, and associates. The most common material types are correspondence, notes, publications, course materials, and case files. Series II includes materials used as class resources, generated by students, and related to curriculum. The most common material types are course notes, syllabi, exam instructions, and reading materials. Series III includes materials related to COL events and the College's various publications (e.g., newsletters and journals). The most common material types are event programs and invitations, event planning materials, and copies of newsletters. Series IV includes administrative materials and records of general College of Law operations. This series contains the most diverse grouping of materials, and it includes things like correspondence, photographs, reports, and some artifacts. Series V includes records of renovations, additions, and new construction of COL facilities. The most common material types are architectural drawings and related correspondence. Series VI includes records related to the process of maintaining and reviewing the College's accreditation status with the American Bar Association and American Association of Law Schools. The most common material types are ABA/AALS reports, compiled internal records, and correspondence. Series VII includes records of the law library. The most common material types are correspondence, reports, and American Association of Law Libraries items. More detailed content descriptions are provided at the series and box level.

This collection contains records from the Dean's Office of the West Virginia University's Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, ranging from the late-1940s to the mid-2000s.