University Archives

       The history of the University of Texas at Arlington dates from 1895 when Arlington College was founded as a private institution.  The school would go through seven name changes before becoming the University of Texas at Arlington in 1965.  

     In 1902 Arlington College became Carlisle Military Academy, followed by Arlington training School in 1913, and Arlington Military Academy in 1916.  By 1917, the school was known as Grubbs Vocational School.  In 1923, the name changed to North Texas Agricultural College until 1949 when it became Arlington State College.  In 1967, the school joined the University of Texas System and acquired its present name.  The University Archives document this long history.

         Material retained in the University Archives, includes correspondence, memoranda, financial and statistical reports, budgets, files from the offices of the president and of the provost/vice president for academic affairs, minutes of various campus committees and student groups and of The University of Texas System Board of Regents, photographs and negatives, proposals, scrapbooks, theses and dissertations, and artifacts. In addition, the University Archives maintains an extensive collection of oral history interviews, primarily with faculty and administrators of the school.

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