Office of the Registrar, 1895-1999

Creator:: Barnard College. Office of the Registrar.
Abstract:: This collection consists of the records of the Barnard College Office of the Registrar. These records include admissions forms, forms concerning enrollment and grading, correspondence, topical files, statistics, and lists of students in various majors.
Extent:: 34.2 Linear Feet 44 document boxes, 2 half document boxes, 2 ledgers, 3 cartons, 1 oversize folder
Language:: English .
Scope and content:: These records contain applications for entrance examinations from 1900-1910, enrollment ledgers and forms (including two ledgers from 1895-1900), forms used to select electives, examination reports, correspondence, statistics, lists of students in various majors, and topical files on subjects relevant to the Office of the Registrar. Selected topics in the correspondence and subject files include correspondence with registrars at other institutions; correspondence with departments and other offices at Barnard; and policies and correspondence about curriculum, grading, attendance, honors, deficiency, registration, and cross-registration with Columbia.

Acquisition information:

Transferred from the Barnard College Office of the Registrar.

Processing information:

This collection was processed and the finding aid written by Heather Lember in January 2014.

This finding aid was updated by Heather Lember in February, 2014 and by Martha Tenney in June, 2015.

Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard. Encoding: Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.

Finding aid written in English.

Arrangement:

The records are arranged in three series, which are as follows:

Series 1, Admissions, 1900-1910
Series 2, Enrollment, 1895-1924
Series 3, Correspondence, topical files, and lists, 1900-1994

Most of the containers are arranged chronologically; other systems of arrangement such as filing schemes are noted at the series level.

Accruals:

Additions are expected.

Physical location:

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Access to records of students are restricted.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard College Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard College Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.

Preferred citation:: Office of the Registar Collections, 1895-1994; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Location of this collection:: Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Archives & Special Collections
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
Before you visit:: Please contact archives@barnard.edu with research requests or to schedule a visit; see our website for more information.

Contact:: archives@barnard.edu

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