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Scope and Contents The Purdue University Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes collection documents the operations of the Board of Trustees. Responsibilities of the Board of Trustees include approving the budget of the University, voting to appoint new University presidents, naming buildings, and establishing departments within the University. The collection includes meeting minutes, related documents, and calendars used by the President of the University at meetings of the Board of Trustees.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series two includes by-laws, a Commemoration program, a newsprint President's Report, a binder of agendas, and a binder of addresses.

Scope and Contents 1. Index

2. Meeting Minutes

3. “The State of Indiana: To All Who Shall See these Presents, Greeting”

“Title to certain Real Estate hereinafter described and located in Wabash Township, Tippeacanoe County, Indiana”

Scope and Contents 1. Index

2. "Memorandum of Needs for Various Departments of the University"

Presented at the Joint Meeting of the Trustees and Faculty, October 21, 1931

3. By-Laws of the Trustees of Purdue University

Scope and Contents Series one includes the minutes from meetings of the Board of Trustees from 1865 though the present. Index lists outlining the topics and people in attendance are included, either compiled at the beginning of the volume or interspersed at the beginning of each meeting throughout the volume. The volume numbers cease in 2006 when the minutes began to be created digitally.

Scope and Contents Series two includes by-laws, a Commemoration program, a newsprint President's Report, a binder of agendas, and a binder of addresses.