The Ohio State University

The OSU Archives has recently updated and expanded our offering of General Records Retention Schedules and are now making it available in a more user friendly consolidated searchable PDF format. This schedule governs the minimum retention and final disposition of records (created and/or received at OSU) in compliance with policies of The Ohio State University and The Ohio Revised Code. For more information please review our Statement of Authority web page...

General Records Retention Schedule [369KB PDF - including Accounting & Financial, General Administrative, Information Technology, Legal, Personnel (Faculty/Staff/Student), and Student & Course Records - updated February 13, 2009]
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In addition to these general schedules a variety of departments/units have unique records which have been scheduled for retention and disposition with the approval of the University Archivist. Follow the Units with Unique Schedules link to view the a list of these schedules...
Certificate of Records Destruction is utilized to appropriately document the destruction of records at the end of their retention period...

If you are unable to find the a records retention schedule that fits your need, please submit a query on our Ask an Archivist page.

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