urn:taro:utsa.00249 Inventory of the University of Texas at San Antonio: Office of Admissions and Registrar Records, 1970-1995 19 May 2009Encoded in XMetal Author by Angela McClendon Ossar. Finding aid is in English. Descriptive Summary University of Texas at San Antonio. Office of Admissions and Registrar University of Texas at San Antonio: Office of Admissions and Registrar Records 1970-1995Materials are in English. UA 19.03 1 linear foot (1 box) University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections The University of Texas at San Antonio Office of Admissions and Registrar administered applications to the university; counseled students needing information about the university, transfer of credit, admission requirements, degree requirements, and related topics; announced new graduate and undergraduate programs and news about admissions; and other functions. The collection spans the years 1970 through 1995 and includes drafts of course catalogs, a departmental directory, issues of the office's newsletters The UTSA Expeditor and The OAR, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to academic programs at UTSA. Historical Note

The University of Texas at San Antonio Office of Admissions and Registrar administered applications to the university; counseled students needing information about the university, transfer of credit, admission requirements, degree requirements, and related topics; announced new graduate and undergraduate programs and news about admissions; and other functions.

The office split into the Office of Admissions and the Office of the Registrar at some point in the first decade of the 2000s.

 Scope and Content Note

The collection spans the years 1970 through 1995 and includes drafts of course catalogs, a departmental directory, issues of the office's newsletters The UTSA Expeditor and The OAR, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to academic programs at UTSA.

This collection is housed at UTSA's HemisFair Park Campus, though off-site access is also available at UTSA's John Peace Library.

 Organization of Collection Original Deposit of August 1998 (Acc. 1998-028v) Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

 Usage Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

 Related Materials

Records of the Office of Admissions are available in UA 19.03.01, with additional information in the UTSA University Archives Vertical File, UA 1.03.

Graduate and undergraduate course catalogs are available in the UTSA University Publications Collection, UA 1.02.03.

 Acquisition Information

Transferred to the University Archives in August 1998 (Acc. 1998-028v).

 Processing Information

Encoded by Angela McClendon Ossar, University Archivist. More detailed processing is not anticipated at this time.

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], University of Texas at San Antonio: Office of Admissions and Registrar Records, UA 19.03, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.

 Index Terms Organizations University of Texas at San Antonio. Office of Admissions and Registrar. University of Texas at San Antonio--History. Subjects Universities and colleges--History--20th century. Universities and colleges--Texas--San Antonio.Universities and colleges--Admission--History--20th century. College registrars. Locations San Antonio (Tex.)--History--20th century. Texas--Education--Universities and colleges. Genres/Formats Newsletters. Directories. Correspondence. Clippings. Inventory of the University of Texas at San Antonio: Office of Admissions and Registrar Records Original Deposit of August 1998 (Acc. 1998-028v)

Arranged chronologically.

 1 Photographs of UTSA site model, circa 1970 1 Articles on the history of UTSA and letters on the opening of the Downtown Campus, 1970-1995 1 Information on doctoral programs [excerpt from Board of Regents minutes], 1971 1 Newspaper clippings pertaining to new programs offered at UTSA, 1971-1988 1 Statistical information about makeup of faculty and students, 1973-1975 1 Proposed graduate catalog for 1973-1974 (3 folders) 1 Undergraduate catalog, 1975-76 [draft] 1 Review of 1975-76 undergraduate catalog, July 1974 1 Graduate catalog, 1975-77 [draft] 1 Review of 1975-77 graduate catalog, October 1974 1 The UTSA Expeditor [newsletter about developments at UTSA], January 1975-February 1977 1 Proposed undergraduate curriculum, September 1975 1 Undergraduate catalog, 1976-78 [draft] 1 Brochure, Introducing UTSA, circa 1978 1 Booklet, Architectural Design: The University of Texas at San Antonio, circa 1979 1 1989 Alumni Directory [paperback], 1989 1 Departmental Directory 1992-93, [1992] 1 Newsletter, The OAR, 1994-1996