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University of North Carolina, Wilmington -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Academic Affairs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-04
Scope and Contents The Academic Affairs Collection consists of administrative records pertaining to curricula, institutional research, and supporting academic services at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and its predecessor Wilmington College. The collection demonstrates an evolving higher education mission, starting with the school's establishment as a locally funded two-year college through its transformation into a leading public research university. A significant part of the collection is from...
Dates: 1947-2023

B. Frank Hall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-164
Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of professor and pastor Dr. Benjamin Franklin "B. Frank" Hall. Content spans 1850-1984 and includes personal and business correspondence, financial documents, sermons, social essays, poetry, newspaper clippings, and advising material from Wilmington College and later UNCW, where Hall taught in the Philosophy and Religion department. Hall's writings focused on religion, human decency, and ethics, of which he shared at the pulpit and in his...
Dates: 1850-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1920-1980

Board of Trustees Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-02
Scope and Contents

This record group includes information by and about the Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 1958 to the present. Files include official, signed meeting minutes, committee meeting minutes, subject files,correspondence, clippings, membership rosters, and photographs.

Dates: 1958 - 2021

Dr. Duncan Randall Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-229
Scope and Contents

This collection contains papers and memorabilia related to Dr. Duncan Randall's personal and family life, his military career with the U.S. Air Force, his academic career as a professor at Wilmington College (now UNCW), and his personal and political interests. Materials include documents, correspondence, newspaper articles and clippings, a stamp collection, emphemera, artifacts, and photographs.

Dates: 1939-2001

Dr. James Merritt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-188
Scope and Contents Dr. James F. Merritt, former Professor and Director Emeritus of the Center for Marine Science, dedicated 34 years at UNCW to conducting and facilitating research in the coastal environment. This collection includes materials related to the Marine Expo in Wilmington, N.C., an educational convention that brought together and focused on marine activities in the region. Dr. Merritt helped to organize the event and served as chairman of the first Marine Expo. The material in this collection...
Dates: 1984-1995

Images of UNCW Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-24
Scope and Contents

This collection brings together prints, slides and negatives, many of which were used in campus publications such as the yearbook, student newspaper, course catalogs, and alumni publications. There are color as well as black and white photographs. The different photographic formats are interfiled. The collection includes photographs of athletics, student life, and academics, as well as special events and university advancement activities from the college's founding until the early 2000s.

Dates: 1948-2009

Library Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-07
Scope and Contents The Library Collection has administrative records beginning in 1947, when Wilmington College opened in New Hanover High School as a two-year county-supported college. The collection includes annual reports, committee records, circulation statistical reports, gift records, newsletters, self-study reports, and photographs. The handwritten accession books are unique pieces in the Wilmington College series of the collection. The University of North Carolina Wilmington series consists of...
Dates: 1947-2019

Presidents and Chancellors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-03
Scope and Contents This collection consists of administrative files from the Presidents and Chancellors of the institution, including correspondence, accreditation reports, installation and inauguration programs, biographical information, and photographs. Files from the first two presidents, Thomas T. Hamilton and John T. Hoggard, contain information on the establishment and administration of the two-year Wilmington College. Topics from William Madison Randall's service as the last president of Wilmington...
Dates: 1952-2011

Public Service and Continuing Studies Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-06
Scope and Contents The Public Service and Continuing Studies Collection contains records pertaining to the administrative history of public service, extended education, and continuing studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington beginning in 1970. The collection include include annual reports, marketing materials, news releases, course catalogs, and photographs. The largest series is Community Services and Programs with files about the university's professional education, adult education, youth...
Dates: 1970-2019

University of North Carolina System Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-01
Scope and Contents This record group includes biographical information for UNC System presidents, correspondence, legal records, news clippings, newsletters, publications, and photographs from the 1960s to the present. Records pertain to North Carolina's public universities, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and/or UNC Wilmington as a constituent institution of the system. This record group does not provide a comprehensive administrative history of the University of North Carolina System....
Dates: 1965 - 2018