Creator: Published by the Michigan Agricultural College; Edited by the Faculty

Subjects: Alumni, Faculty, Students

Description: The M.A.C. Record was created in 1896 from a suggestion by a committee of faculty who were charged with looking at ways to improve Michigan Agricultural College. The committee consisted of Howard Edwards, Clinton D. Smith, and Frank S. Kedzie. The Edwards committee suggested a weekly college paper to aid in interpreting the institution to its constituency. Edwards became the first editor and the first issue of the M.A.C. Record appeared on January 4, 1896.

Though students were early members of the editorial board and could contribute to The M.A.C. Record, the faculty maintained editorial oversight of the paper, which meant the paper usually portrayed the faculty point of view. By 1909 students wanted their own voice and began their own newspaper, The Holcad. This paper would eventually become The State News.

From the beginning of the M.A.C. Record alumni were allowed to submit updates of their whereabouts and articles for publication. When the alumni association reorganized in 1913 as the M.A.C. Association and opened its membership to all former students of the college, the faculty transferred control of the M.A.C. Record to them, to be edited by the association's secretary.

Date: 1896

Original Format: Publication

Language: English

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections, MSU Libraries