BYU Library - Special Collections

Contains Communications Department accreditation files, administrative records, audits, and files on an external review, forensics, and programs; Communciations History Archives administrative records and David O. Selznick collection files; and Communications Research Center administrative records and reports.

Contains correspondence and reports on activities of department majors and graduates. Materials date from between 1959 and 1962.

Contains administrative files, including grade summaries, academics standards, memorandums, correspondence, invitations, articles, seminar and workshop files, book lists, brochures and pamphlets, bibliographies, curriculum materials, meeting minutes, and employment and enrollment data.

Contains administrative files on general education courses, teaching techniques, degree requirements, grades, and extension classes (Division of Continuing Education). Materials date from between 1952 and 1965.

Contains administrative files, including Instructions, catalog notes, curriculum revisions, grade rolls, correspondence, graphs, class outlines, and enrollments. Materials date from between 1959 and 1968.

Contains department and student publications committee minutes. Materials date from between 1951 and 1971.

Contains administrative files, including news releases and clippings. Materials date from between 1952 and 1964.

Contains revision drafts of "Gods Within the Machine: A History of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1923-1993," a study written by Brigham Young University communications professor Paul A. Pratte. Also contains related research records, including minutes, correspondence, the organization's bulletin, journal articles, and presidents' speeches and records, 1920-1995.

Collection of plans, presentations and programs relating to the Department of Communications strategic plan. Includes minutes for BYU's Assistant Vice President's meeting and a copy of BYU's strategic plan for the Department of Communications - including proposals for their Media Ethics Studies program, BYU's Communication Research center, a plan on the recruitment and equal treatment of women and minority faculty/students, etc. Dated February 1992.