The archives are history, and the personnel archives is the reflection of the individual historical records, which can provide reference for the employers to inspect the individual.If they cannot be managed and used in proper way in Colleges and Universities, it will cause a certain loss to employers and even have negative impact on society. This paper thinks about the management and utilization of the personnel archives in Colleges and Universities in Shenyang incident from the perspective of ideological cognition and practice. The ideological cognition aspect,including changing the concept of“focusing on storing and lacking of using”, strengthening the consciousness of active service, setting up the consciousness of cooperation, sharing the information resources of archives, and breaking the weak supervision consciousness. The practice is analyzed from three aspects, including perfecting the law and regulations of the personnel archives management, strengthening the information communication of the personnel archives of the University, and supervising the management and utilization of the personnel archives in Colleges and Universities. Finally, based on the background of“Internet +”, this paper proposes adapting to the development trend of the management and utilization of personnel archives in Colleges and Universities.