Student Services Records Marshall 65-00 | Archives and Records

Archives: Guide to Student Services Office (Robert Marshall) Records, 1965-2000

Title: Student Services Office (Robert Marshall) Records Robert Marshall, c. 1990
Dates: 1965-2000
Collection number: A-048
Size: 52 document boxes (20.8 cubic feet)
Description: Administrative and departmental records from Robert Marshall, Vice President of Student Services from 1988-1992. This collection documents the push by Lane Community College to increase enrollment and student retention, its concern with diversity issues, and its interest in international education.
Access Restrictions: The bulk of the collection is open for research; Legal Records, Complaint/Grievance Records, and Personnel files are restricted.
Provenance: Administrative transfer from the Student Services Office 9/3/1993, 5/5/1994.
Processed by: Tiah Edmunson-Morton, 2005.
Citation: Student Services Office (Robert Marshall) Records, 1965-2000 (A-048), Lane Community College Archives, Eugene, Oregon

Repository:
Lane Community College
Archives and Records Management
Elizabeth M. Uhlig, Archivist
4000 East 30th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon 97405 USA
Telephone: (541) 463-5466
Fax: (541) 463-3996
Email: archives@lanecc.edu

Administrative History

The Student Services Office, as it was known during Robert Marshall's time, has undergone several name changes. The Office of the Dean of Students was created in 1965 and became Student Personnel Services in 1967. It was changed again in 1976 to Student Services. In 1997, the department reorganized and merged with Instructional Services to become the Office of Instruction and Student Services.

Biography: Robert Marshall

Robert B. "Bob" Marshall began his work at Lane Community College when it was the Eugene Technical-Vocational School, part of Eugene School District 4. He worked as a math teacher and the director of the Manpower Development and Training Program (an act intended to train and retrain thousands of workers unemployed because of automation and technological changes).

When citizens voted to turn Eugene Technical-Vocational School into the nucleus of a community college in 1964, Marshall received the challenge of setting up an academic records system. He had eight months to do it before the official opening date of Lane Community College on July 1, 1965. Marshall kept his position as the director of the Manpower Development Training Act (1965-1968) after Lane opened its doors. In 1968, he took a job as the Director of Admissions. This was a position he kept for 20 years, until stepping into an interim vice president position for Student Services, which was made permanent in 1990.

In a 1990 interview, he explained the important role Lane Community College played in the evolution of higher education.

Lane was the second college on the West Coast to offer a computerized transcript system. the first college in the Northwest to have an online registration system. the first to offer online degree evaluation. [and] one of the first in the Northwest to offer touch-tone telephone registration.

Marshall said that, because there was no precedent to follow, it was an exciting time at the college; "[f]ree discussion led to innovation." This innovative attitude kept Lane Community College on the edge of development for registration systems. Marshall thought the college had to continue this push toward innovation; he saw the key to its survival in revitalization and change. He believed that "[a]s you become older, you become more comfortable with what is then what could be. You can't maintain the beginning level of energy."

He retired at the end of the 1991-1992 Academic Year; the following is an excerpt from his intent to retire letter, dated January 29, 1992:

It is very difficult to put into words just what the college has meant to me through all of these years. Experiencing the building of a new campus and the successes that have followed have given me a great deal of pride, but all of that pales when I think of the thousands of students who's [sic] lives have been changed for the better through their involvement with... Lane Community College. What makes the college a special place to work is that we do truly care about each other and our students.

He was succeeded by Linda Fossen in 1992 (A-049).

Before moving to Oregon, he spent several years with Allied Chemical in Delaware (1953-1954, 1956-1958) and two years as an Army instructor in power plant operations (1954-1956). He studied power plant mechanics at Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades in Pennsylvania (1953) before earning a B.S. in 1961 and M.Ed. in 1962 from Pennsylvania State University. He did post-graduate work in educational administration at the University of Oregon, 1964-1970.

Scope & Content Note

The records include memos, calendars, articles, reports, surveys, institutional planning materials, and departmental records.

The collection is divided into 8 series.

Series A: Administrative Records, 1967-1993
- In addition to general administrative records for the Student Services department, this series also contains records that pertain to institutional planning.
Series B: Departmental Records, 1978-1994
- Records in this series are divided according to department. The bulk of this series contains files from Financial Aid, the Bookstore, Food Services, Athletics, Student Services, Child Care, Admissions, Counseling, and Personnel. These files contain records for faculty, as well as confidential union negotiations and personnel files.
Series C: Financial Records, 1981-1993
- These records generally consist of budget summaries and audit reports. In addition to files containing copies of grant applications and contracts, this series contains financial records for individual departments, tuition increases, and information about the Lane Foundation. Records for Financial Aid and scholarship information are contained in the "Department Records" series, under the Financial Aid department.
Series D: Student Activities and International Education, 1975-1994
- This series consists primarily of records for Student Organizations, Student Complaints, and International Education. In the early 1990s, the college explored establishing an exchange program with various international universities, including some in Japan and Germany.
Series E: Publications, 1974-2000
- Included in this series are materials published by Lane, such as Denali and the Torch, as well as outside publications (books, reports, surveys).
Series F: Outside Records, 1982-1993
- This series contains records from outside associations and organizations. It includes committees, coalitions, councils, associations (including the Oregon Community College Association), legislative bodies and state boards, meeting records, and information from other colleges and universities. There are also three files on the League for Innovation, an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement.
Series G: Committee Records, 1986-1992
- This series contains records for Lane Community College committees, including 25th Anniversary Steering Committee, Art Works Committee, International/Inter-Cultural Committee, Substance Abuse Committee, and Executive Council.
Series H: Correspondence, 1980-1993
- This series includes general administrative correspondence with individuals and departments during Robert Marshall's tenure as vice president.

Some materials from Linda Fossen's tenure as vice president for Student Services are combined with Robert Marshall's records.

This series contains 52 document boxes of paper records.

Finding Aid

For a detailed finding aid which includes a complete list of the contents of this collection, refer to:

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Student Services Office (Hakanson, Carter) Records, 1965-1987 (A-024). This collection includes administrative records of the Student Services Office during the tenure of Dean of Students I.S. (Bud) Hakanson, 1965-1969, and Dean of Students/Vice President for Student Services John (Jack) Carter, 1969-1988. This collection contains correspondence, subject files, college committee records, and records for outside associations and organizations.

Student Services Office (Linda Fossen) Records, 1971-2000 (A-049). Administrative and departmental records from Linda Fossen, Vice President of Student Services from 1992-1997.

President's Office (John Carter) Records, 1978-1991 (A-045). Correspondence, subject files, and administrative records documenting the tenure of John (Jack) Carter, interim president of Lane Community College, 1988-1990.

President's Office (Jerry Moskus) Records, 1964-2004 (A-053). The collection contains correspondence, administrative records, legal records, maps, videos, photographs, and the writings of Jerry Moskus, president of Lane Community College, 1990-2001.

President's Office (Richard M. Turner) Records, 1976-1986 (A-039). Correspondence, subject files, and administrative records documenting the tenure of Richard M. Turner, president of Lane Community College, 1985-1988.