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 from 1991-2016. Files include surveys, handbooks, reports, and plans. Some files pertain to student support, and student requirements.
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 collections and notebooks related to the Provost's Office. Reports are labeled with year but are in no particular order.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Office of the Provost Reports, 1991-2016 (UA2018-07)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by Rachel (last name unrecorded) of the Provost's Office on July 20, 2018 and retained as UA2018-07.
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