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History
Welcome to the web site of the Andrews University
Archives and Records Center.
The Archives is the official repository for unpublished,
non-current University administrative records of historical, fiscal,
legal, or administrative value. Records held in the Archives date
from the historical beginning of the University with Battle Creek
College in Battle Creek from 1874 - 1901, then emerging here in
Berrien Springs as Emmanuel Missionary College, 1901 - 1960, and
merging in 1960 with Potomac University in Washington DC, 1957 -
1960, to its present identity as Andrews University. The records
maintained at the Archives include the correspondence of the presidents,
minutes of the Board of Trustees, administrative and faculty committees,
and other records of the central administrative offices, the student
services, the various Schools, departments, institutes and other
entities of the University.
The Andrews University Archives and Records Center
is an independent university-wide entity under the leadership of
the Office of the Vice President for Academic Administration. It
functions as one of the units of the Adventist Research Center along
with the Adventist Heritage Center, the Ellen G. White Estate, and
the SDA Periodical Index at the lower level of the James White Library.
The Andrews University Archives and Records Center
was established in 1999 to manage the growing body of administrative
records which had been stored all over campus, often for lack of
better places, in old cabinets and boxes, and stuffed into closets
or basement shelves. Most records of the central administration,
however, were sent to the Adventist Heritage Center and stored there.
But only some of those records were processed and managed as special
collections since the mission and focus of the AHC is Adventist
history worldwide.
Since then, many of these records, and others which
were stored there and at various other places around the campus
have been transferred and are now located at the Archives. Besides
the effort of bringing all of the administrative records under one
roof, the main concerted effort of the Archives has been to establish
an archival program which includes its policies, a manual, retention
schedules, guidelines and forms for identifying those records/items
which can be tossed and those which must be kept and properly transferred
to the Archives. It also includes the writing and creating of a
database program for processing and retrieval of records. The goal
of the Archives is to standardize procedures for proper record management
across campus.
Therefore, our web site includes, for your convenience,
the full downloadable text of most of this viable information needed
for your record keeping and your work with the Archives for the
preservation of the records in your departmental/unit.
We hope you will find this information very helpful. If you have
questions, please contact us by phone or e-mail; or even better,
visit us and we will give you a tour of your Andrews University
Archives and Records Center.
Wolfgang P. Kunze
Associate for University Archives and Records Management
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