Washington State University was founded as the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science in 1890, and became the State College of Washington (colloquially Washington State College) in 1905. It enrolled its first students and began instruction in January of 1892. During its early years the school offered both college courses and non-college courses, the most common non-college program was the Preparatory School, later the Elementary School or Elementary Science program, which was the equivalent of today's high school education.
The Office of the Registrar is responsible for handling student records; the role of the registrar dates to the earliest days of the campus, though the first registrar also served a secretarial role. Today it's responsible for virtually all non-medical student data.
The collection consists of transcripts of students who attended WSC between about 1919 and the 1940s. The records are incomplete.
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.
The records remain in the order in which they were received, which is mostly alphabetically, though some sections have been shuffled.
These records are closed; no public access is allowed without consent and supervision of the archivist. No reproduction of materials is permitted. The primary reason for the restriction is FREPA laws, which do not apply after death, so exceptions may be m
Records of living individuals may not be reproduced in any form.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Registrar Student Records, 1920-1940 (UA1995-06)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by Dave Guzman of the Registrar's Office on February 21, 1995 and retained as UA1995-06.
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