These collections include materials that document the history and development of UVU, such as photographs, school publications, and oral histories.
A Miracle in Utah Valley
This book, a history of Utah Valley University, was written by Wilson W. Sorensen, president of UVU from 1946-1982. It uses photographs, official documents, and the personal recollections of people involved with the school from 1942 to 1982.
Capitol Reef Oral Histories
This is a collection of oral history interviews done with long-time residents of the areas that are now near or part of Capitol Reef National Park and, particularly, the UVU Capitol Reef Field Station, which is within the Park in south-central Utah.
Ethics and Values Telecourse Series
This collection consists of the 2006-2012 Ethics & Values Philosophy 2050 telecourse series, developed at Utah Valley State College for distance education students of this required core course.
Faculty Convocation Programs
These are the past events schedules for the UVU Faculty Convocation meetings, held each August before the beginning of Fall Semester. This collection includes convocation schedules for the years 2011 through 2017.
Faculty Senate Meeting Documents
The UVU Faculty Senate Archived Meeting Documents collection consists of the archived minutes of both the Faculty Senate meetings and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee meetings held between the years 2009-2010 through 2016-2017. There are no Executive Council meeting minutes before 2011-2012, and there are no Faculty Senate meeting minutes for 2010-2011.
Fulton Library Collection
This collection, covering 2001-2015, includes documents, newsletters, and presentations created by UVU librarians and staff to keep UVU faculty, staff and students informed about developments at the Library.
Fulton Library Covid-19 Collection
This collection consists of images, documents, promotional materials, social media posts, and surveys that have been contributed by staff members, students, and others to document the changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Historical UVU Course Catalogs
This collection consists of older catalogs, from 1947 up to the years 2004-2005.
Course catalogs from 2005-2006 to present may be found at the Graduate and Undergraduate Catalog Archive.
Ian Wilson Collection of UVU Business School History Scrapbooks
These scrapbooks of photographs, department newsletters and newspaper clippings are related to the history of UVU's Woodbury School of Business, and were collected and donated by its former dean, Dr. Ian Wilson.
In Retrospect
This is a brief history of the Licensed Practical Nursing program at Utah Technical College at Provo between the years of 1950 and 1975, and consists primarily of photographs of the nursing students in each year’s classes.
Oral History Interviews
This is a collection of oral history interviews with long-time or retired employees, faculty and administrators of Utah Valley University.
Utah Fire & Rescue Academy
The Utah Fire and Rescue Academy (UFRA), located at Utah Valley University, trains fire service emergency responders and leaders. This collection includes their publication, UFRA Straight Tip, as well as videos of training games and events.
Utah Technical College Yearbooks
Here are three complete yearbooks from Utah Technical College at Provo, covering 1969, 1970, and 1971.
UTC Women's Association Scrapbooks
These scrapbooks contain memorabilia of the organization's various programs, socials, and their service to the community and the college, between 1969-1978.
UVU Athletics Media Guides
This collection includes media guides that were created between 1980-2003 by the Athletics Departments and the Sports Information Departments of Utah Technical College, Utah Valley Community College, and Utah Valley State College. Each guide focused on team member information, team rosters, season schedules, and season highlights for both women's and men's sports.
UVU Commencement Programs
This collection is made up of the printed programs prepared for the graduation ceremonies held each year, starting with 1955.
UVU Historical Newsclippings
These are clippings about UVU from various Utah newspapers, especially those in Utah and Salt Lake counties. The clippings range over the years 1955 to 1982, and offer a glimpse into school and area history and development during that time.
UVU Historical Newsletters
This collection is comprised of several different print newsletters that were published over several decades of UVU's history, all aimed at keeping staff and students appraised of events, policies, deadlines, and personnel issues. Coverage is not complete, ranging from 1971-1993.
UVU Historical Photographs
The Utah Valley University Historical Photographs collection consists of digital photographs that document various activities, courses, and people affiliated with the school, and covers from 1941 through 1990.
UVU Historical Slides Restoration Project
This is a selection of digitally restored colored slides from the Wilson W. Sorensen Papers. Most of the original slides, many of them glass, are up to 70 years old, and are in poor condition. The selected slides were painstakingly restored by Richard McLean, Digitization Specialist for the Sutherland Archives, and demonstrate the improvement in appearance that can be achieved with careful digital restoration.
UVU Historical Student Council Photographs
This collection includes photographs and scrapbooks that were donated to the George Sutherland Archives by the UVU Student Government in 2017. There are currently photographs of school royalty, such as Miss UVU and Mr. UVU contest winners, as well as photographs of past student government and student council members and their scrapbooks of activities.
UVU Historical Student Newspapers
This collection is comprised of the student newspaper for Utah Valley University, from 1966 to 2012. It has been published under a number of different names, each reflecting the status of the school at that particular time, such as the UTTI Scope, the Tradewinds, the UTC Press, the UVCC College Times, the UVSC College Times, and finally the UVU Review.
UVU Provost’s Office COVID-19 Announcements
These are mass emails sent out from the UVU Provost's Office during the COVID-19 pandemic to help keep UVU faculty and staff up to date with the university's functions, responses and developments occasioned by the pandemic.
UVU's VICA Club Scrapbooks
This collection consists of three scrapbooks that were compiled by the officers of the Utah Technical College at Provo Chapter of Vocational Industrial Clubs of America, or VICA in 1973-74, 1976, and 1977. They include photographs of members and events, chapter newsletters, and programs from conferences and competitions that members attended or in which they competed.
Wasatch Campus History
This collection, covering from 1992 to 2003, is comprised of six scrapbooks that were created by Dr. Barbara von Diether, Ed.D, former Dean of the Wasatch Campus of Utah Valley State College, to document the development of the Utah Valley Community College/Utah Valley State College Park City Education Center and later Wasatch Campus in Heber City.
Wilson W. Sorensen Collection of Historical UVU Photographs
The Wilson W. Sorensen Collection of Historical UVU Photographs contains images that trace the history of UVU from 1942 to 1982, and focuses primarily on the classes that were offered and student activities held.
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