Bowling Green State University, Board of Trustees records
Collection Overview
Abstract
The records of the Board of Trustees of Bowling Green State University, 1911-2019.
Dates
- Creation: 1911-2019
Extent
15.03 Cubic Feet (19 legal sized archive boxes and 17 letter sized archive boxes)
8 Reels (8 microfilm reels)
Creator
- Bowling Green State University. Board of Trustees (Organization)
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the functions, policies, procedures, decisions, operations, and other activities of the Board of Trustees and Bowling Green State University.
The collection consists mostly of official meeting minutes and agenda materials of the board and various committees. There are also some biographical materials on former Board members, correspondence, minutes of the audit and finance committees, and documentation on various academic programs.
Board minutes are available from 1911-May 2004, while after that (October 2004 forward), the entire package prepared for each board meeting (with an agenda, background materials, etc.) are available. In addition, all Board of Trustee meeting minutes can also be accessed online via BGSU's ScholarWorks institutional repository.
Handwritten and typed card indexes also exist for Board actions. These indexes appear to cover from the 1920s-circa 1987, though the bulk of the actions recorded are from the 1950s-1970s. These indexes can be accessed in the CAC's reading room.
Biographical / Historical
The BGSU Board of Trustees is a group of eleven individuals appointed by the Governor that by law is authorized to "do all things necessary for the proper maintenance and successful and continuous operation" of the University. In general, the Board of Trustees: establishes and monitors the execution of policy that guides the administration in the day-to-day operations of the University; selects a president, and on his or her advice, a staff to administer policy; and supports the efforts of the President and the staff in relation to the Ohio Board of Regents, members of the state legislature, and state officials.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Please note that while the box number sequence spans from box 1 to box 52, there are in fact only 36 boxes in the collection, as boxes 26-41 do not exist.
Existence and Location of Copies
All Board of Trustee meeting minutes can also be accessed online via BGSU's ScholarWorks institutional repository.
Subject
- Bowling Green State University. Board of Trustees (Organization)
- Bowling Green State University. Board of Trustees -- Archives (Organization)
- Bowling Green State University -- Administration -- Sources (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Bowling Green State University, Board of Trustees records
- Author
- Cindy Radford, Nick Pavlik
- Date
- circa 2019, June 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin