On January 26, 1886, the University’s Board of Trustees
created the position of Registrar to maintain records of student
admissions and grades.  At first the responsibilities of the
position were simply added to those of the Secretary of the
Faculty.  Joshua Walker Gore was the first to hold the combined
offices.  Until 1916 the office of Registrar remained much the
same, with Eugene Lewis Harris replacing Gore in 1894, Charles
Woollen replacing Harris in 1902, and Thomas James Wilson
succeeding Woollen in 1908.  Under Woollen the keeping of
academic records was formalized on what have come to be known as
permanent record cards, and the office began to be seen as more
an administrative than a faculty responsibility.  By January 1916
Thomas J. Wilson was released from other duties and became the
first full-time Registrar, and in 1923 George Kenneth Grant Henry
was appointed Assistant Registrar.  In 1930 the responsibilities
for admissions and academic records were divided between Henry
and Ben Husbands as Assistant Registrars under Wilson as Dean of
Admissions and Registrar.

     The Central Office of Records was established in 1938 with
Issac Cebern Griffin as Director, reporting to Wilson.  In 1942
Ben Husbands succeeded Wilson as Registrar, and the division of
functions under him was further formalized by the creation of the
Office of Admissions with Lee Roy Armstrong as Director.  The
following year Husbands was replaced by William Howard Plemmons.
Following Plemmons's retirement in 1947, the title of Registrar
was abandoned, and the Directors of the Central Records Office
and the Admissions Office reported directly to the Chancellor.

     In 1954 the Cresap and McCormick management study resulted
in a reorganization of the University's administrative structure,
and the Central Records Office was placed in the new Division of
Student Affairs.  In 1961 Raymond E. Strong became Director of a
reorganized Office of Records and Registration.  Following J.
Carlyle Sitterson's appointment as Chancellor, the office was
placed in the Division of Academic Affairs reporting to the
Provost.

     In July 1969 the Office of the Registrar and Director of
Institutional Research was established with James R. Gaskin as
its head, and the Office of Records and Registration was placed
under it. A year later the new Division of Administration was
created, and the Registrar and Director of Institutional Research
began reporting to the new Vice Chancellor for Administration.
In July 1971, Lillian Y. Lehman replaced Gaskin as Registrar and
Director of Institutional Research.  On July 1, 1980, the
Division of Administration was renamed Division of University
Affairs.

     The records of the Office of the Registrar and Director of
Institutional Research are arranged in four series. An inventory
of each series follows.


SERIES 1: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR/REGISTRAR

     SUBSERIES 1: Office of the Registrar
          Annual Reports, 1970-1972

     SUBSERIES 2: Office of the Director of Institutional Research
          Annual Reports, 1970; 1971; 1975

     SUBSERIES 3: HEGIS/NCHED/OCR/AAUP Reports
          Academic Years 1967; 1971-1983


SERIES 2: OFFICE OF RECORDS AND REGISTRATION
          (formerly Central Office of Records, 1938-1961)
          Annual Reports, 1955; 1958; 1959; 1964; 1965; 1969;
          1970; 1971; 1972; 1975; 1977


SERIES 3: STUDENT AID OFFICE
          Annual Reports, 1951; 1954; 1955; 1958; 1959; 1961;
          1962; 1964; 1965; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1974


SERIES 4: OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS
          (previously Office of Admissions 1959-70; became Office
          of Undergraduate Admissions in 1970)
          Annual Reports, 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936;
          1939; 1940; 1941; 1944; 1955; 1958; 1959; 1962; 1964;
          1965; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1978