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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Records of the Office of Vice-President and the Office of Executive Vice-President, Warren W. Brandt, RG 3/4, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement and description of the collection began in October 2006 and was completed in January 2007. Additional materials were integrated and description was updated in October 2021.

Appraisal

One folder, ca. 0.1 cubic feet, of faculty tenure and promotion records, dated February 1964-January 1966, were destroyed in accordance with Library of Virginia's Records Retention Schedule #GS-111, Series 200554 -- Promotion and Tenure Records: Supporting Documentation, Certificate of Records Destruction Form #8198.

Biographical Note

Born in Lansing, Michigan, Warren William Brandt (1923-2017) received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Michigan State University in 1944. He went on to pursue a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Illinois. Brandt came to Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) from Kansas State University in 1963. He served as Vice-President and Dean of the Graduate School from 1963 through 1965, when the office was split into two positions and he became Vice-President of Academic Affairs in 1966. He served in this role until 1968, when he became Executive Vice-President of the university. Brandt left VPI in 1969 to become the first president of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

For more information, see "Warren Brandt, VCU's president in a time of transition and turmoil, dies at 93", Virginia Commonwealth University, July 7, 2017, https://www.news.vcu.edu/article/Warren_Brandt_VCUs_president_in_a_time_of_transition_and_turmoil .

Scope and Content

This collection combines the records from Warren W. Brandt's tenure in the Office of the Vice-President (1963-1965; RG 3/4), Office of the Vice-President of Academic Affairs (1966-1968; RG 5/1/1), and the Office of Executive Vice-President (1968-1969; RG 4/1). The collection primarily contains correspondence concerning university business, including letters to Pres. T. Marshall Hahn, academic deans, faculty, parents, and students. Materials from the Academic Council, University Council, National Science Foundation, and the Visiting Scholar Program are also contained in the collection. There are also letters dealing with the rights of women, including a petition seeking to change the regulations governing female students attending the university. The collection also documents issues of racial equality, such as correspondence concerning the Bi-Racial Committee in Blacksburg, a group charged with evaluating the off-campus housing available to African American students.

Materials on the Virginia Associated Research Center (VARC) comprise correspondence, reports, and Governing Committee minutes. VARC was an off-campus graduate facility sponsored by Virginia Tech, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia, in cooperation with the Langley Research Center of NASA. It specialized in applied aerospace research and other basic research in related areas.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by series in approximate chronological order, and each series is arranged alphabetically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Brandt, Warren William, 1923-2017
• Faculty and staff
• Record Group 3
• Record Group 4
• Record Group 5
• University Archives
• University History
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Office of Vice-President (1945-1965)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Office of Vice-President of Academic Affairs
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Office of the Executive Vice-President

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Records of the Office of Vice-President and the Office of Executive Vice-President, Warren W. Brandt by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your- work/public-domain/cc0/ ).