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This collection contains the academic schedules from Mercyhurst College/University. Each folder contains fall, winter, spring, and summer term schedules for that academic year. Semesters started in fall 2013.

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This collection contains handbooks for administrators of Mercyhurst College/University. It includes information such as: general policies, employment policies and procedures, pay policies, and employee benefits and services.

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This collection contains newsletters from the adult college providing information of interest to the adult students and the college community. Later, the newsletter was named Paradigm, and the adult college became the adult and graduate center. The collection also contains marketing material in video, tape, and paper formats.

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This collection contains the directories for Alumni. These directories include information such as alumni bibliography, class year, geography, career networking, and e-mail addresses.

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This collection contains information pertaining to the Anthropology/Archaeology department, as well as the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute (MAI), from the proposal in 1990 to current times.

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This collection contains the information submitted for University Status of Mercyhurst College. It includes the documentation of the site visit on October 3-5, 2011 and any other relevant items to the process of change within the College.

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This collection contains the publication Campus Directions containing news from the North East, West, and Corry campuses of Mercyhurst College. This publication began in 2006 and continued through 2009. For a time, this title was included in the Monday Morning.

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This collection contains the telephone directories of faculty, administration, and staff at Mercyhurst University.

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This collection contains information regarding the Career Development Center which changed from Career Services between March and September 2010. This information includes career handbooks, job search workbooks, cooperative education, MAASCUS, schedules for job/career fairs, publications, handouts, and newspaper clippings.

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This collection contains information from the Career Services Office about the annual placements of students into internships/externships, graduate schools, and job placements after graduation.

Scope and Contents This collection contains the publications of the Civic Institute of Mercyhurst College. This organization is a division of the Social Sciences department of the college that is partnered between the college and the community to enhance social, educational, and civic well-being in Erie as well as throughout the state of Pennsylvania. The goal is to improve public policies in these areas for better conditions for those in this community. This collection includes reports from research about...

Scope and Contents The Mercyhurst College Senate Records are the written documentation of the activities of the College Senate and its committees from 1967 to 1991. It contains minutes and other documentation of individual meetings, reports on various subjects from various committees, and proposals throughout the years. This collection follows the Senate through the years, recording its membership, its changes in structure and its business. It also follows the business of the College as it comes in contact...

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This collection contains commencement programs from Mercyhurst main campus. Also as part of this collection are additional commencement materials, such as invitations, event schedules, mass programs, etc.

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This collection contins the course catalogs from Mercyhurst College until 2011-2012, which then changes to Mercyhurst University catalogs with the 2012-13 publication. These catalogs contain information on academic programs, student life, academic affairs, admissions, as well as faculty, board of trustees and administration.

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This collection contains the pamphlets, schedules, photographs, and publications of the Mercyhurst College Dance Department.

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This collection contains the records of former faculty and administrators from the 1960s to 1975.

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This collection contains material of the planning of events, commencement invitiations, inauguration budgeting, and correspondence pertaining to the inauguration of Mercyhurst College's 11th president, Dr. Thomas J. Gamble, on September 16, 2006.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of donations of Dr. Garvey's to the archives during his presidency (1980-2005). These consist of histories and proposals concerning both the City of Erie and Mercyhurst College, and books and correspondence from and newspaper clippings about Dr. Garvey. There are reel-to-reel tapes, recording events in both his and his predecessor Dr. Marion L. Shane's presidencies, as well as audio-cassettes and videotapes regarding his own term of office. Of note is A Short History...

Scope and Contents The Durkin Family collection consists largely of family photographs and correspondence to Mrs. Edmund J. Durkin, Sr. (nee Mary Blaise Walsh, 1883-1968). The first group of photographs are family portraits of Edmund J. Durkin, Sr. (1878-1949), Edmund J. Durkin (1911-1976), Catherine M. Durkin (b.1915), Helen M. Durkin (b. 1916), and Thomas M. (1923). Photographs of Mercyhurst include the 1938 May Crowing, photos of some Mercy sisters, and misc. ones. Mrs. Durkin was a graduate of...

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The Merciad Collection consists of miscellaneous items concerning Mercyhurst College in the mid 1930’s. Four Merciads, the school newspaper are in this collection. Two articles show the graduating seniors, one in newsprint form and one in portrait form. The last item is a mid 1930 College Handbook that shows some of the events that occurred around the college campus.

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This collection contains information for faculty of Mercyhurst College/University. It includes information such as: faculty membership and responsibilities, faculty personnel policies, faculty policies committee by-laws, documents, and appendices.

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Collection 188, Faculty Policies Committee, contains various materials dealing with the operations and concerns of such a committee, i.e: faculty benefits; salaries; tenure; contracts. Also included are minutes from faculty meetings, correspondence between faculty and administration and various educational publications. The collection encompasses the period between 1966 and 1975, with some undated material.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of items and information regarding the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts and Culture (MIAC) which was formed in 2012. Formerly, these venures had been considered their own entities. The venues are: Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center (PAC), Sister Angelica Cummings Art Gallery, Sister Eustace Taylor Little Theater, and Dr. Bartlett and Catherine Walker Recital Hall. The collection includes programs and pamphlets of performances, events, speakers, and films which...

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These tapes are interviews made by Larie Pintea, former Erie Times columnist, of Mercyhurst administration, faculty, and alumni members. The persons being interviewed give the history of their past and memories of Mercyhurst. This collection also contains interviews pertaining to the history of Erie Radio and TV broadcasting, the Erie Public School System, and Erie politics.

Scope and Contents This is a type written copy of an article in the Erie Daily Times of June 22nd, 1907, entitled “The life story of Sebastian Rinderle”. Mr. Rinderle, who was 95 years old at the time of publication, owned the entire tract of land upon which Mercyhurst is built. It was farmed by his son J. Reinhold Rinderle, and then by his 2 grandsons John Rinderle and Joseph Rinderle. As of 1975, one granddaughter, Anna Rinderle, still survived. Mr. Rinderle was a carpenter by trade, and he hewed the lumber...

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The materials in this collection were found in with the record collection donated to Mercyhurst Hammermill Library by Lyman and Marylin Cohen. It contains photographs, programs, letters, and autographs.

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This collection contains programs, invitations, and names of speakers present during the Mass of the Holy Spirit. The mass was celebrated during the month of September and held in the Christ the King Chapel. Following the mass, the entire university is invited to a luncheon on the school grounds.

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The first May Crowning was held at Mercyhurst in 1931. The May Crowning was one of the graduation celebrations held along with a visit from the Bishop, special dinner, and Charter Day. The annual event was held in the grotto and later moved to the front of the campus. Many parents and residents of Erie would come to the celebration. The last May Crowning was held in 1968 at the request of the students who thought it was an outdated activity.