Faculty & Personnel
- University ArchivesOffice of Institutional Research collects and maintains statistical and other evaluative information about the University of New Hampshire and its faculty, staff and students. Departmental Profiles contain a wide variety of demographic data about each department within the University. This data…
- University ArchivesCharles E. Hewitt was an alumni of the University of New Hampshire, a professor of electrical engineering at the University starting in 1893, and later, Dean of Engineering during the World War I period. This folder contains correspondence between Charles E. Hewitt, Dean of Engineering, and the…
- University ArchivesThis series contains videotapes produced for the Chemistry Dept. of the symposium A Century of Chemistry in Durham: A Symposium, held on October 22, 1993.
- University ArchivesThe Faculty Council functioned within the university senate to serve the president in an advisory capacity, to serve as an executive committee for the consideration of urgent matters arising between meetings of the senate, to consider and act upon all matters referred to or delegated to it by the…
- University ArchivesFrank W. Rane was a Professor of Horticulture at UNH between 1896-1905. This series contains four volumes of carbon copied letters written by Frank W. Rane, Professor of horiticulture (1896-1905) concerning the business of running the Dept. of Horticulture.
- University ArchivesThe Faculty Tennis Club began in 1894 at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. The Club was for the male members of the teaching staff at the College. This collection holds the records of the Club.
- University ArchivesThis series contains files maintained by the Office of the President. After Dale Nitzschke resigned, two people served as interim president: Thomas Fairchild (1994-95) and Walter Peterson (1995-96)
- University ArchivesThe Affirmative Action Office reports directly to the President on all matters relating to the diversity of the university. This collection, compiled by the Affirmative Action Office, contains documents significant to the university's diversity…
- University ArchivesIn 1985, Gov. John Sununu signed into law a bill making the Merrimack Valley College the sixth college of the University of New Hampshire. The University of New Hampshire at Manchester (UNHM) provides access to UNH associate, bachelor and graduate…
- University ArchivesProfessor Clarence W. Scott worked for the University for 54 years. He served as first librarian of the college, instuctor and professor of English, 1878-1886, and professor of history and political science, 1879-1930. A short time before his death, Dr. Scott had undertaken the writing of a history…
- University ArchivesThe University of New Hamsphire Library records date back to the first catalog of books belonging to the New Hampshire state college. This collection chronicles the Library's growth through correspondence, records, minutes of meetings, acquisitions,…
- University ArchivesThe Arts and Sciences Division was formed in 1893 and was renamed the College of Liberal Arts in 1923. This series contains the minutes for the faculty meetings of the College of Liberal Arts.
- University ArchivesThe Committee on Academic Programs and Teaching Methods was a committee of the Faculty Council. This series contains the records of the Committee on Academic Programs and Teaching Methods of the University of New Hampshire.
- University ArchivesDuring WWII, the US Department of Agriculture turned to the public for assistants to find mature milkweed pods to provide fiber for filling life jackets. Farmers were asked not to mow the roadsides and fields where the plants (long regarded by them as…
- University ArchivesIn 1990, Roger S. Brown, Associate Professor of German, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state university system complaining that his constitutional right of free speech and due process were violated when Nancy Lukens, the department chairman…
- University ArchivesJoan R. Leitzel earned her bachelor's degree from Hanover College in 1958, her master's degree from Brown University in 1961, and her doctorate from Indiana University in 1965, all in mathematics. Dr. Leitzel was appointed seventeenth president of the…
- University ArchivesThe UNH President's Commission on the Status of Women was established February 15, 1972, to explore conditions and attitudes within the University of New Hampshire, relating to the mobility and functional equality of women, and to encourage movement…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the report made by Raymond Osgood Kendall (MA 1930) concerning the correlation of aptitude tests and intelligence tests. He used the Iowa Placement Tests in English and Mathematics and the Psychological Examination taken by…
- University ArchivesThe minutes of the meetings of the faculty of the NHCAMA were recorded by secretaries, C. H. Harrison, 1906-1908; E. R. Groves, 1908-1911; Mabel Hodgkins, 1911-1914; Florence Trimmer, 1914-1915; and Conda J. Ham, 1915-1916. They include printed materials pasted and laid in.
- University ArchivesCharlotte K. Anderson worked for the University of New Hampshire Library for 37 years. She was hired as a reader consultant in 1943, but quickly assumed the duties of the documents librarian. In 1946, she was promoted to assistant librarian and held that position until she retired in 1980. This…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee for the College of Liberal Arts. Included are discussions of curriculum changes and petitions from students.
- University ArchivesThe New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was incorporated in 1866 by the state legislature as was one of the early land-grant institutions of public higher education established under the Morrill Act. Orignally located in Hanover, NH, it was removed to Durham in 1893 and…
- University ArchivesThe School of Health and Human Services was established as the Division of Health Studies in 1969. The following year it was renamed the School of Health Studies. In 1990, it was reorganized as the School of Health and Human Services. Prior to 1969 health studies courses were part of the College of…
- University ArchivesOren "Dad" Vittelius Henderson worked for the University of New Hampshire from 1915 to 1939. He started as the Business Secretary for the college and was also the Purchasing Agent for the Experiment Station. In 1920 he was promoted to Executive…
- University ArchivesRalph Dorn Hetzel graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1906. He taught English and public speaking at Oregon State College and became a full professor there in 1910. In 1912 he was asked to organize a political science department and in 1913 was made the director of the extension services…
- University ArchivesThe Professional, Administrative and Technical (PAT) Staff Council, established in 1975 as a standing council of the UNH administration, serves the president in an informational and advisory capacity, provides for the election of staff senators, and recommends staff personnel policies. It also…
- University ArchivesThe New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was established in 1866 in Hanover, NH and affiliated with Dartmouth College. Problems arose in the relationship between the two schools and it became necessary to explore alternatives for…
- University ArchivesRuth G. Stimson graduated from UNH in 1940 with a degree in Home Economics. She joined the Cooperative Extension as a Home Demonstration Agent-at-Large. Shortly after, she was assigned to the Rockingham County Office where she worked until she retired in 1982. The information contained in these 28…
- University ArchivesThelma Brackett served the state of New Hampshire as both the state librarian (1931-1942) and the head librarian at the University of New Hampshire (1942-1962). This series contains Thelma Brackett's correspondence, articles written by Thelma, and photographs which were collected by Jane Kaufman,…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the files from the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the bulk of which is annual reports.
- University ArchivesThe first honorary degree was awarded in 1881 by the Trustees to Jeremiah W. Sanborn of Gilmanton, NH for his years of service as the manager of the College farm. The practice of awarding honorary degrees has been suspended twice, once during the…
- University ArchivesThe School of Health and Human Services was established as the Division of Health Studies in 1969. The following year it was renamed the School of Health Studies. In 1990, it was reorganized as the School of Health and Human Services. Prior to 1969 health studies courses were part of the College of…
- University ArchivesThe creator of this scrapbook is unidentified, but was possibly a student at the College during the events. The scrapbook consists of local newspaper clippings covering the 1912 strike over William H. Brackett's suspension, as well as other…
- University ArchivesEdward Morgan Lewis served as president of the University of New Hampshire from September 1, 1927 to May 24, 1936. Lewis received both his undergraduate and graduate education from Williams College. He came to UNH from Massachusetts Agricultural…
- University ArchivesThe President's Cabinet was created in 1990 by President Dale F. Nitzschke and consists of the Directors of the major segments of the University. This series contains the agendas with attachments of the Cabinet meetings.
- University ArchivesJohn Conant of Jaffrey, NH made several offers to the State of New Hampshire with regards to an agricultural college. He first offered his farm and $30,000 for the location and establishment of the agricultural college. That offer was declined and the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the…
- University ArchivesEzekiel Webster Dimond was the first faculty member of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. This series consists of one folder containing a tribute to Ezekiel Webster Dimond. The pages trace Dimond from his birth in 1836 to his death in 1876. It was written in 1877 by…
- University ArchivesIn October 1989, M. Daniel Smith of the Dept. of Education received a grant from the USNH Innovation and Opportunity Grants program to conduct a project he called “Outcomes/Antecedents Assessment Inquiry” that would assess cognitive outcomes of the…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the minutes of the Policies Committee of the College of Liberal Arts.
- University ArchivesThis series contains the minutes of faculty meetings of the faculty of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. These minutes cover the Agricultural Division Committee, the College of Agriculture and the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.
- University ArchivesThe graduate school at UNH was formally created in 1928, though graduate studies date back to the university founding. This collection contains files from the graduate school including minutes of the graduate faculty meetings, campus correspondence,…
- University ArchivesThe New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station was established at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts with the funds provided by the Hatch Act of 1887. The College was founded in Hanover, NH in 1866, moved to Durham, NH…
- University ArchivesRoy Deneale Hunter was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire in 1916. He then became president of the Board in 1931 until his death in 1944. Hunter also acted as Chief Executive Officer of UNH twice, following the death of President Lewis in 1937 and President…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the agendas with attachments for the President's Staff. The Staff was started in 1990 by President Dale Nitzschke and consists of all the Vice Presidents of the University.
- University ArchivesThis series contains the pamphlet Agricultural Education Historically Considered, by Charles W. Scott. Scott was a professor at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts and he covers the history of agricultural education in his essay.
- University ArchivesPaul Schaefer served the University of New Hampshire for nearly thirty years as a professor and administrator. His papers comprise of files generated during his time working for the university.
- University ArchivesThe job of the News Bureau is to tell the university's story to internal and exernal audiences and to work with the media on behalf of the university. The Bureau collected the "Good News" for the consumption of the University community.
- University ArchivesWith the exception of a seven-year period between 1939 and 1946, when a student could test out of taking English, the Freshman English course has been a university-wide requirement. This series contains the files of the chairs of the freshman English…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the minutes of the Executive Committee of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, 1972-1980.
- University ArchivesThe graduate school at UNH was formally created in 1928, though graduate studies date back to the university founding. This series contains the minutes of the Graduate Council meetings and its subcommittees.
