University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1971 - Present
Historical Note
With the merger of the Wisconsin State University System and the University of Wisconsin System, completed in 1971, the name of the institution was changed to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. A new academic building, the Richard E. Hibbard Humanities Hall, opened in 1974. In 1977, construction on a major addition to Davies Center was completed. In 1982, the Allied Health and Clinical Services Building on the north bank of the Chippewa River was completed. Construction of an addition to the Nursing Building was begun. The addition opened for occupancy in the summer of 1985. In recent years, the lower campus was transformed by the construction of the new W.R. Davies Student Center, completed in 2012; Centennial Hall, completed in late 2013 and occupied in early 2014; the renovation of Garfield Avenue along the Chippewa River on lower campus; the renovation and building of new residence halls on upper campus; and the demolition of Katharine Thomas and Putnam residence halls on lower campus in fall of 2022, to build a new Science and Health Sciences building to replace L.E. Phillips Science Hall.
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Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
COVID Pandemic Response Collection, 2020-2022
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 608
Summary
COVID-19 ephemera created and data collected by UW-Eau Claire during 2020-2022, including face masks, safety goggles, virus collection kit, medical gown, wall and floor signage, fact sheets, t-shirt “Smashed COVID with Tommy and Chancellor Jim” from the Smash COVID event Sept. 13, 2021, “Blugold Flight Plan” water bottle with information sheet, Digital Thermometer, and UW-EC mask inside water bottle (given to staff and students), and “I got my COVID-19 vaccine” button. Includes digital...
Dates:
2020-2022
Eau Queer Film Festival Collection, 2010-2022
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 611
Summary
The Eau Queer Film Festival was a festival held at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire from 2010-2018. The festival rebranded as freaQweek in 2019, and as Q-Fest in 2022. The festival highlights LGBTQ+ created films. Each year, students and faculty travel to San Francisco, California, on a Domestic Intercultural Immersion Program trip during the summer, for the Frameline International LGBTQ+ Film Festival to choose which films to bring back to UW-Eau Claire for the film festival held...
Dates:
2010-2022
Grace Walsh Papers, 1931-1994
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 551
Summary
The collection contains financial records, programs, reel-to-reel audio tapes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, awards, some correspondence, and other general files related to the forensics and debate programs at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. Includes files created by and pertaining personally to Grace Walsh, a professor and director of speech and forensics from 1944-1980.
Dates:
1931-1994
Guide to the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra Records, 1976-2012
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 388
Summary
Material collected by the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra after its founding in 1975 by a small group of musicians under the musical direction of Roy Bennet, assistant professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, along with Dale Young, a music instructor at Central Jr. High, as concertmaster. Collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, program brochures, grant applications, and documents about outreach programs, and various ephemera from the...
Dates:
1976-2012
Haas Oral History Interviews Project, 1985-1991
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 345
Summary
The Haas Oral History Interviews Project comprises interview tapes and transcribed interviews of interviews conducted by Chancellor Leonard C. Haas and University Archivist Richard Pifer between 1985 to 1988 about the history and development of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Haas’s tenure at the university ranged from 1931 into the 1980s, starting as a student, then faculty member/administrative staff, and President and Chancellor from 1959-1971 and 1973-1980. With Haas planning to...
Dates:
1985-1991
Howard Lutz Papers, circa 1951-1988
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 278
Summary
Professional papers of UW-Eau Claire History Department faculty member Howard Lutz, 1957-1989. Lutz helped develop the Scandinavian Studies program and was a conscientious objector in World War II. During the Vietnam era, he opposed the creation of a ROTC program at UW--Eau Claire and counseled students seeking conscientious objector status. Papers include information about Lutz’s pacifistic and protest activities on campus during the Vietnam War and his involvement in university committees...
Dates:
circa 1951-1988
Inter-Cultural Education Program Records, 1969-1972
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 125
Summary
The Inter-Cultural Education Program was a summer program at the WSU-EC Campus School for minority group and educationally disadvantaged youth from the Racine, Black River Falls, Hayward, and Eau Claire areas, to improve children’s skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing through various methods and to appreciate their own and other cultures. Includes reports, evaluations, staff and student lists, instruction materials, correspondence, host family information, budgets, proposals,...
Dates:
1969-1972
Media Development Center Negatives, 1916-2005 (bulk 1960-2005)
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 104
Summary
The Media Development Center provides photographic, audio, videotape, and graphic services to the University community. In 1955, a faculty member was appointed Director of Audio-Visual Aids to assist the faculty in preparing film orders and evaluating equipment. A full-fledged Audio-Visual Services department existed by the early 1960s and was responsible for audio-visual instruction, equipment purchase and distribution, offset duplicating, production of educational materials, and...
Dates:
1916-2005 (bulk 1960-2005)
Memorial Hall Materials, 1946-continuing
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 483
Summary
Records relating to Memorial Hall, first residence hall on the Eau Claire State Teachers College campus in 1947. It was originally the Dulany Mansion of lumber baron Daniel Dulany, located on the northwest corner of State Street and Garfield Avenue. It became a men’s dormitory in 1955 when a new women’s dormitory was built. When Memorial Hall was demolished, some of the stained-glass windows and wood trim were saved to decorate the Dulany Inn restaurant in the UW-Eau Claire Davies Student...
Dates:
1946-continuing
Morris Hayes Papers, 1963-1987
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 382
Summary
Personal and professional documents relating to the career of Morris D. Hayes, University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Director of Choral Organizations from 1966-1987. Includes music programs, correspondence, photographs, a recording of "A Choral Salute to Morris D. Hayes” (1986-87) and distinguished service award presentation (1980), and 2 blue and gold beanie hats that say “Morris Hayes.”
Dates:
1963-1987
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- Faculty 10
- Organization Files 10
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- Athletics 9
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- Commencement 8
- Meeting Minutes 8
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- Schofield Hall 7
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- Campus School (Eau Claire, Wis.) 6
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- Periscope 5
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- President 5
- Student Housing--Wisconsin--Eau Claire 5
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- University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire--Alumni and Alumnae 5
- University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire--Curricula 5
- University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire—Administration 5
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- Eau Claire (Wis.)–History 4
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- Music 4
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- Oral Histories 4
- Putnam Park (Eau Claire, Wis.) 4
- Student publications -- University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire 4
- University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire--Faculty 4
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- Artists Series 3
- Basketball—Wisconsin—Eau Claire 3
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- LGBTQ+ 3
- McPhee Physical Education Center 3
- Memorabilia 3
- Schneider Social Science Hall 3
- School of Nursing Building 3
- Scrapbooks 3
- Student Life 3
- Student activities—Wisconsin—Eau Claire 3
- The Forum Series 3
- The Spectator 3
- University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire--Buildings 3
- University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire--Centennial Celebrations, etc 3
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 3
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- Accreditation (Education) 2
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- Constitution 2
- Debates and Debating--Wisconsin--Eau Claire. 2
- Documentary 2
- Dulany Inn 2
- Eau Claire County (Wis.) 2
- Eau Queer Film Festival 2
- Ecumenical Religious Center 2
- Footbridge 2
- Forensics (Public speaking)--Wisconsin--Eau Claire. 2
- Freshman Beanies 2
- Handbooks 2
- Hilltop 2
- Indians of North America—Wisconsin. 2
- Katharine Thomas Hall 2
- Kjer Theatre 2
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