Special Collections Research Center
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Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Scope and Contents
Endowment Association and Development Office Records which includes correspondence, financial records, committee reports, ledgers, resolutions, working papers, scrapbook, architectural renderings of the Special Collections wing of Swem Library and more.
The Endowment Association of the College of William & Mary in Virginia, Incorporated, founded in 1939, changed its name to The College of William & Mary Foundation on July 1, 2006. The Foundation's mission is "to aid, strengthen, and expand in every proper and useful way the work, usefulness and objects of" the College. The William & Mary Foundation manages the College's endowments, including the Athletic Educational Foundation and the Marshall-Wythe School of Law Foundation.
The Foundation is run by a professional staff along with a board of trustees made up of alumni and friends of the College. The trustees work with alumni, faculty, staff and others to obtain funding for scholarships, fellowships, professorships, facilities, and research.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Agendas (administrative records)
- College of William and Mary--University Development
- Endowments
- Financial records
- Ledgers (Accounting)
- Letters (correspondence)
- Microfilms
- Minutes
- Reports
- Universities and Colleges--Finance
Container List
- Mixed Materials box: 1
ReportsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 2
ReportsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 3
ReportsEnglish.
Includes copies of resolutions passed by the Endowment Association and the Board of Visitors establishing funds and copies of forms with information about donors and gifts.
- Mixed Materials box: 4
ResolutionEnglish.
Microfilm.
- Microform Reel: 1
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 2
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 3
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 4
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 5
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 6
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 7
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 8
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 9
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 10
LedgersEnglish.
- Microform Reel: 11
LedgersEnglish.
Includes minutes, agendas, working papers, correspondence, Advancement Systems Committee files, President's Council files, and joint meeting files.
- Mixed Materials box: 5
RecordsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 6
RecordsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 7
RecordsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 8
RecordsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 9
RecordsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 10
RecordsEnglish.
Includes quarterly reports (1973-1983) and year end statements (1979-1982).
- Mixed Materials box: 11
ReportsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 12
ReportsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 13
ReportsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 14
ReportsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 15
ReportsEnglish.
- Mixed Materials box: 16
ReportsEnglish.
Includes one scrapbook dated June 1979, Endowment Association minutes, and architectural renderings of the Special Collections wing of Swem library.
- Mixed Materials box: 17
Scrapbook, Minutes, Special Collections Architectural DrawingsEnglish.
Board of Trustees reports, Certificate of Incorporation, committees, scholarships, endowments established, amendments and terminations; Annual report of the Treasurer; "Romance and Renaissance of the College"; "Ways and Means" bulletin; National Endowment of the Humanities; Friends of the College Reports. Annual Reports for 2010, 2011.
These are Boxes 10-23 of Development Department Records, Publications.
- Mixed Materials box: 10-23
PublicationsEnglish.