Washington State University's Department of Communications was formed in 1964 by the merging of the Journalism Department with the broadcasting courses offered by the Speech Department. It became the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications in 1990.
The collection consists primarily of reports and documents used in planning and evaluation of the Communications program between 1976 and 1996. It also includes minutes of faculty meetings and departmental newsletters, dating from 1965 to 1991.
The materials are organized by type, and chronologically within each.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
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Washington State University School of Communications Records, 1965-1996 (Archives 393)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
These materials were donated by Thomas Heuterman of Washington State University’s School of Communications to the WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections in 1996. They were retained, with other papers from Heuterman, as MS96-24. In 2005, these departmental papers were separated out of Thomas Heuterman’s personal papers, and redesignated as UA2005-12.
The records were processed in June 2019 by University Archivist Mark O’English.
These materials were separated out of the Thomas Heuterman Papers, 1867-1996
WSU MASC holds many other records from the WSU Speech Department, School of Communications, and various Communications projects.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.