This series contains the files of the Office of the Registrar and spans the years from 1905-1970. Items in this series consist primarily of annual reports, enrollment reports, grade distribution and timely information on demographic trends and other matters affecting admissions expectations and proposals. Folders on annual reports detail the work of the registrar's office which included keeping class records, administering National Youth Administration jobs, compiling alumni addresses and grade distributions by schools, departments and instructors. Class attendance regulations are also included as well as enrollment listed by county and states; salary changes, new positions, budgets and salary rolls, and labor. A considerable number of files concerning graduation contain graduation programs, an outline of procedures for graduation exercises, a list of candidates for degrees, rental order blanks for academic regalia and final committee grade point ratios of honor graduates.cont. Other files include a roster of students who failed to meet eligiblilty requirements to maintain their class enrollment, a report of why students attended Clemson, the litigation and admission of Harvey Gantt, the first black student to be admitted to the College, and a list of Clemson students who enlisted and were casualties of World War I. Individuals who have held the position of registrar include: Augustus Shanklin (1902), J. C. Littlejohn (1914), William H. Washington (1930), Gustave Ernest Metz (1940), Kenneth N. Vickery (1906), Reginald J. Berry (1984), Stanley B. Smith (1984) and Michael R. Heintze (1987).
Name: Office of Admissions and Registration
Date established: Academic year 1961-1962
Previous agency: Office of the Registrar, 1901-1961
Subsequent agency: Office of Admissions, Registration and Financial Aid, 1966-1975
Administering agency:
Vice-President for Student Affairs, 1985-1988
Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost, 1996
Financial Aid Office
Records and Registration
Undergraduate Admissions
4 Cubic Feet
English
The files were originally arranged alphabetically and chronologically within each file. Later additions were not incorporated into the original arrangement but were appended at the end of the folder inventory.
Office of Admissions, Registration, and Financial Aid.
Buddy Amaker, student assistant; Karen Bates, Library Technical Assistant. This finding aid was revised and updated in April 2002.
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