Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Agricultural College was established in Amherst through a board of trustees mandated by St 1863, c 220, to promote branches of learning relating to agriculture and the mechanic arts, for the benefit of the industrial classes so-called.  The college admitted its first students in 1867.  Reflecting its increasingly inclusive liberal arts curriculum over the next seven decades, the institution was reorganized and renamed the Massachusetts State College in 1931 (eventually becoming the University of Massachusetts in 1947).
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1996, from State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections
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Scope and Content: The Board of Higher Education was established in 1965 to guide and coordinate the growth of public higher education in Massachusetts (St 1965, c 572).  The vice chancellor for academic affairs was responsible to the board for granting approval to public colleges and universities seeking to establish new degree programs or to modify existing ones.  The vice chancellor’s institutional degree program approval files relate to institutions in the Massachusetts State College System requesting the board’s approval for new academic programs.
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Scope and Content: The Division of Academic Affairs under the Board of Regents of Higher Education is responsible for approving new degree programs and evaluating existing programs at public colleges and universities in Massachusetts.  Institutional program files contain reviews of specific academic programs written and submitted by community colleges, state colleges, and state universities.  Reports contain information on the development of particular programs, their course offerings and requirements, and their interaction with local communities and businesses.
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Scope and Content: The Division of Academic Affairs under the Board of Regents of Higher Education is responsible for formulating, recommending, implementing, and monitoring academic affairs policy; and establishing, reviewing, and monitoring educational standards for public and private institutions of higher education in Massachusetts.  Institutional review files contain copies of self-study reports submitted by public and private institutions to the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges as part of reaccreditation requirements.
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Scope and Content: The Board of Education was established in 1837.  It was replaced in 1919 by the Dept. of Education under the control of the Advisory Board of Education, which was superseded by the Board of Education (not to be confused with the earlier body of that name) in 1947.
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Scope and Content: The Division of Fiscal Affairs and Management of the Board of Regents, under the vice chancellor for fiscal affairs and management, is responsible for overall budgetary planning and facility management for the state system of higher education.  Minutes of the boards of trustees for individual institutions are submitted to apprise the vice chancellor of policy decisions made on the institutional level that will have fiscal ramifications.  These policy decisions then become a factor in preparing the annual budgetary request to the General Court.  The minutes are the primary record of decisions and discussions of policy issues undertaken by the boards of trustees for individual community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Minutes of community colleges (2) Minutes of colleges (3) Minutes of universities; Arranged within each subseries alphabetically by institution, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: From 1837 to 1919 the Board of Education had general supervision of public schools and normal schools (teachers colleges) in Massachusetts.  Horace Mann served as board secretary from 1837 to 1848.  Series includes board minutes (in draft–for record minutes see: Massachusetts. Dept. of Education. Board minutes ((M-Ar)1504)) recording appointment and resignation of Mann as secretary, and letters from Mann to board members and others relating to his work.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Bureau of Immigration was established in 1917.  It was replaced by the Division of Education of Aliens in the Department of Education in 1919, renamed the Division of Immigration and Americanization in 1920.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Registers of ships, 1870-1932 (2) Registers of passengers, 1925-1930
Notes: Collated: 192- -193-. Transferred to Archives from State Library, Aug. 1992; subseries (2) possibly transferred earlier.
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Scope and Content: From 1837 to 1919 the Board of Education had general supervision of public schools and normal schools (later called teachers colleges) in Massachusetts.  Series consists of letterpress copybooks of the board secretary’s outgoing correspondence, generally in response to inquiries of school committee members, teachers, and town officials concerning laws and regulations governing education in Massachusetts.
Arrangement: Arranged  chronologically
Notes: Correspondence for 1851-1863 lacking
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education (MACE) was established by St 1965, c 572, s 2 to recommend policies that would improve the performance of public education systems in the Commonwealth.  Through its director of research, the council coordinated and sponsored studies of educational issues, drawing on the expertise of individuals and organizations both inside and outside state government.  In an effort to address a statewide need for the delivery of services to special needs students in conjunction with the passage of St 1972, c 766, the council in 1974 commissioned the Educational Collaborative for Greater Boston (EDCO) to conduct a study on collaborative programming as a means for delivery of services to special needs students.  The study was completed in 1975 with the publication of a manual, Approaches to collaboration: a handbook of strategies for serving special needs children.  Its purpose was to assist school systems in establishing effective approaches for delivering services.  Study files are the project files maintained by EDCO and transferred to MACE at the conclusion of the project.
Notes: During processing it was determined that these were EDCO files transferred to MACE at the study’s conclusion
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