The Office of the Provost at Washington State University is responsible for providing academic leadership for the school. The use of the name at WSU dates to about 1978 when the Office of the Vice President – Academic was retitled as the Provost, but obviously administration over academic functions dates to the first days of the college, when that function was held by the school President.
Accreditation of the colleges and universities of the United States began in the 1950s, when the federal government became more involved in college funding and sought evidence the schools they were funding were qualified and were providing the educations the promised. The accreditation process was placed in the hands of regional higher education membership organizations; for schools in the state of Washington that was the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. While that organization has since gone through a variety of names, in the late 2010s it is known as the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
Files and reports from the Provost's Office of Washington State University, from 1986-2024. Files include assessments and reports. Larger sets include the Annual Report of the Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Research from 1997-1993, and the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports from 2013-1016.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Contains bound and loose documents related to the Provost's Office. Reports are titled and labeled with date but are in no particular order.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Office of the Provost Reports, 1986-2024 (UA2024-01)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Materials have come in separate unannounced physical mail drops from Haylee Hansen and other assistants in the Office of the Provost to the Washington State University Libraries in 2023 and 2024. These have been retained jointly as UA2024-01.
It is likely that future additions will continue to come in, and will be added to these materials.
These materials are as of yet unprocessed. When a decision is made to process them, they should be jointly done with the other unprocessed Provost’s materials (see Related Materials).
Two other sets of Provost’s reports can be found in MASC as UA2017-11 and UA2018-07. The WSU Publications collection may hold similar materials.
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