Collections

The Town Creek Foundation, founded by Edmund "Ted" Stanley in Easton, Maryland, operated as a grantmaking non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of Maryland's environment. Town Creek centered its mission on addressing environmental changes within the state, focusing on challenges such as pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland's transition to a low-carbon economy. The foundation supported a range of initiatives, including advocacy, outreach, and institutional development, to strengthen the environmental movement and hold polluters accountable for their contributions to climate change at both local and national levels. This collection is comprised of records from the foundation's board of trustees, financial papers, their grant-making work, and born-digital materials.

The Foundation Incubator was established with the goal of providing a community for philanthropists to interact, discuss, and innovate new solutions in the field, through shared office space for smaller foundations to utilize as well as articles, coaching, workshops, and presentations for the wider community. Established in Palo Alto, TFI had a special focus on applying the verve of Silicon Valley from that period to philanthropy, and members of the Foundation Incubator primarily consisted of California-based ventures. Confronted with an economic downturn and a consensus to slow growth, TFI merged with Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy in July 2005.

This collection contains the records of the Office of the Dean of the Faculties and of the Executive Vice Chancellor. The dean of the faculties is the chief academic officer at IUPUI and oversees the development and administration of academic programs, faculty appointments, professional development, promotion and tenure, and academic support operations. The executive vice chancellor is the second highest ranking administrator in the IUPUI administration. The title was created in 1973, and generally the person holding that position has also been the dean of the faculties. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, university publications, and files documenting the dean of the faculties/executive vice chancellor's role in the development of IUPUI's academic programs and the administrator's involvement with community, regional, and national organizations.

The I Association (formerly I-Men Association (1913-2006) and I-Women Association (1982-2006)) honors exceptional athletes at Indiana University Bloomington. This collection contains files about I Association alumni events and event planning, Board of Directors meeting information, I Association membership, and email, letter, and memo correspondence between I Association staff and alumni.

The Wendell L. Willkie Quadrangle opened in the fall of 1964 as a residence hall for men and women, and was rededicated as the Willkie Residence Center in 2000. This collection contains four scrapbooks that were compiled by staff of the Willkie Quadrangle residence hall between 1968 and 1981. The scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, event pamphlets, and other materials that document staff and resident events during their respective time periods. In addition, the collection contains loose photographs of Willkie staff and leadership teams from 2004-2007, as well as loose newspaper clippings and other materials documenting Willkie residents and staff from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

The Department of Journalism was established at Indiana University in 1911. The Department began offering master's degrees in journalism starting in 1916, and bachelor's degrees in journalism beginning in 1932. In 1974, the Department of Journalism became the School of Journalism in the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1989, it became an independent school and in 2019, a merger between the School and the departments of Communication and Culture and Telecommunications led to the establishment of IUB's Media School. This collection consists of records that document alumni of the School and the Indiana Daily Student.

These papers document activities of Jean Coffey Webster while she served as director of Indiana University Training School for Nurses (now IU School of Nursing) from 1948-1953, as well as her time as nurse and captain in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II, a portion of which she served in the 32nd General Hospital Unit. The papers also document Coffey's experience as a nursing and nursing education student, including a diary of her years as an undergraduate nursing education student at IU Bloomington. The materials include correspondence, clippings, personal and journal writings, and educational records including diplomas and certificates, as well as some photographs and bound texts.

Reports of Investigation (ROIs) created by the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology or their Cultural Resource Management (CRM) office from 1964-2019.

Records from the Department of Athletics, which oversees the intercollegiate athletics programs at IUPUI.

The Indiana University Board of Trustees is the governing body of Indiana University. By agreement in the merger of the Indianapolis campuses of Indiana University and Purdue University in 1969, the resulting IUPUI would be governed by the IU Board of Trustees. Records include minutes, agendas, and other records.

This collection is comprised of audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted for the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the IU Kokomo campus, as well as interviews of Kokomo campus faculty, staff, and alumni conducted as part of the Indiana University Bicentennial Oral History Project.