Reed College Office of Admissions records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains admissions promotional materials including flyers, brochures, application packets, tri-folds, and financial aid information. The collection also includes enrollment statistics, admissions office reports, memos, and correspondence.
Dates
- Creation: 1919 - 2008
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1950 - 2008
Creator
- Reed College. Office of Admissions (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
The Reed College Office of Admissions was likely created in the 1930s or 1940s. On February 28th, 1934, the Reed College Quest announced the first Director of Admissions, James Thompson Hamilton, was to start that April as a member of the Division of Philosophy, Psychology and Education, but with primary duties in connecting potential applicants to the college. By 1942, there is mention of an admissions office. Blank applications for admission were sometimes included in college publications, for example attached to the beginning of the May 1931 Reed College Bulletin.
Extent
6 Linear Feet (12 manuscript boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains materials created by Reed College's Office of Admissions. The contents include admissions promotional materials, flyers, brochures, applications packets, tri-folds, financial aid information, enrollment statistics, admissions office reports, memos, and correspondence.
Arrangement
The collection is loosely arranged alphabetically by type of promotional material or topic.
Physical Location
Archives Main Shelving (L014), Range D Section 4.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection is presumed to have been donated or collected over the years. 7 boxes merged from general files in winter 2018. Arrangement likely imposed by archives staff, not source department.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Reed College Special Collections and Archives Repository
3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard
Portland Oregon 97202-8199 United States
archives@reed.edu