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RECORDS OF THE
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
in the
University Archives and Records Service
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wilson Library, CB# 3926
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
27514-8890
July 1992
Described here are the official records of the Dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The School of Education has its roots in the University Normal School, which began in 1877. The Normal School was discontinued when North Carolina established normal schools throughout the state in 1884. A Department of Pedagogy continued to offer courses in education, however. Professors prominent in the Department were Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble, Edwin Anderson Alderman, and Henry Horace Williams.
In 1907 the Department of Education was established, and in 1913 it became the School of Education with M. C. S. Noble as Dean. Noble served until 1921. He was succeeded by Nathan Wilson Walker as Acting Dean, a position Walker held until the school was discontinued in 1932.
During Walker's tenure the Survey Committee on Consolidation, which was appointed by the Governor to suggest methods of implementing the Act of Consolidation, recommended that the School of Education be returned to departmental status and that an all-campus division of education be established. (See the the Records of the Graduate School in the University Archives for material on consolidation and all-campus divisions of the University.)
The Department of Education was recreated in 1932 and remained a department until 1948, when it again became the School of Education. Chairmen of the Department were:
Nathan Wilson Walker 1932-1935
Marion Rex Trabue 1935-1937
Arnold K. King (Acting) 1937-1938
Harl R. Douglass 1938-1940
W. Carson Ryan 1940-1948
Deans of the School of Education, 1948 to the present, have been:
Guy B. Phillips 1948-1953
Arnold Perry 1953-1964
John C. Otts (Acting) 1965-1966
Norton Lewis Beach 1967-1978
William C. Self 1978-1982
James L. Paul 1982-1983
Frank Brown 1983-1990
Donald Stedman 1990-
The Records of the School of Education also include records of the Center for Population and Environmental Education, which was located within the School of Education, 1971-1974.
The records of the School of Education are arranged in three series, as listed below. Within each series files are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Series 1: Office of the Dean
Series 2: Center for Population and Environmental Education
Series 3: Outside Organizations
SERIES 1: OFFICE OF THE DEAN (ADMINISTRATIVE FILES)
These records contain material which reflects the duties and responsibilities of the Dean of the School of Education. There are annual reports of the Dean, minutes of meetings of the staff of the School of Education, correspondence with individual members of the staff of the School, information on programs and curricula, correspondence with University officials at both the local and consolidated level, and other general files concerning the operation and administration of the School of Education.
Box 1:1
Administrative Board, School of Education, 1948-1965
Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records, 1963-1965
Adult Education Center, 1951-1953
American Education Week Convocations, 1962-1963
Annual Reports, 1949-1951; 1953-1965
Art Department, 1957
Aycock, William B. (Chancellor of the University), 1957-1964
Branch, Arthur (Business Manager of the University,
1957-1965
Chase, John B., Jr., 1966 (See also Fifth-Year Program)
Committees, School of Education, 1960-1961; 1964-1965
(List of Faculty Committees)
Consolidated University Office:
Allocation of Functions Committee, 1950-1951
Anderson, Donald B. (Vice President), 1962-1965
Combined Education Staff Meetings, 1959-1966
Cooperative Research Committee, 1956-1957
Friday, William (President of the University),
1956-1965
Graduate Executive Council, 1957-1963
Gray, Gordon (President of the University), 1950-1953
Purks, Harris (Provost and Acting President), 1955
Schools of Education Conference, 1953-1956
Correspondence Bureau, 1962-1965
Distributive Education, 1956-1966
Driver Education, 1957-1958
du Pont Scholarships, 1953-1960
Economic Education Workshop, 1952-1955
Box 1:2
Education, Department and School of:
General Correspondence, 1937-1950
Minutes of Staff Meetings, 1934-1964
(includes some committee reports)
Courses and Curricula for Programs and
Certification, 1955-1957
Box 1:2 (cont.)
Education, Department and School of: (cont.)
Educational Needs Committee, 1963
Enrollment, 1950-1955
Graduate Committee, 1937-1957
Plans and Projects Committee, 1951-1964
Requests for 1948-1949 and 1949-1951
Undergraduate Committee, 1956-1963
Extension Division:
General, 1945-1965
Administrative Board, 1956-1961
Fifth-Year Program in Teacher Education, 1959-1965
(See also John B. Chase, Jr., and Ford Foundation)
Gaskin, James R., 1958-1964
(See also Graduate School)
General College:
General, 1951-1954
Administrative Board, 1953; 1956-1961
Godfrey, James L. (Dean of the Faculty), 1957-1965
Graduate Center - Charlotte, 1959
Graduate Degrees and Research Topics, 1927-1946
Graduate Professional Degree Program Committee,
1960-1961
Graduate Programs, New, 1951?
Graduate School:
Administrative Board, 1958-1961
Box 1:3
Correspondence with Dean, 1946-1965
Correspondence with Associate Dean, 1962-1966
(See also James R. Gaskin)
Graduate Study in Professional Schools, 1955?
Guidance, 1948-1972
Guidance Institute, 1958-1961
Gwynn, J. Minor, 1951-1968
Handicapped Children, Program for, 1954-1956
(See also Special Education and Mentally
Handicapped)
High School Journal
House, Robert Burton (Chancellor of the University),
1946-1957
Jordan, Arthur M., 1954-1960
Junior College Conference, 1958-1959
Junior High Conference, 1959
King, Arnold K., 1925-1965
Kinston Center, 1964
Box 1:3 (cont.)
Master of Education Degree, 1951
Mentally Handicapped Children's Program, 1957-1966
(See also Handicapped Children and Special Education)
Organizational Chart, 1960-1961
Orientation, 1954-1959
Otts, John C., 1965
Peabody Hall Addition, 1949-1960
Perry, William D., 1941-1961
Physical Education, 1963
Prison Education Project, 1960
Psychometric Laboratory, 1951-1956
Reading Program, 1951-1956
(See also William D. Perry)
Recreation Leadership Curriculum, 1954
Religion (Christianity and Public Education), 1949
Rosser, Neill A., 1954-1973
Box 1:4
Safety Education, 1948-1951
School Administration, Graduate Program in, 1960-1964
(Two-Year Program)
Self-Evaluation, 1948
Special Education, 1948-1953
(See also Mentally Handicapped and Handicapped
Children)
Speech Therapy, 1963-1965
Spruill, Corydon (Dean of the Faculty), 1954-1957
Student Teaching, 1953-1966
Summer School, 1937-1938
Superintendents Special Study Group, 1952
Supervisory Program, 1945-1953
Tarbet, Donald G., 1952-1966
(See also Television)
Teacher-Administrator Selection, 1965
Teacher Training, 1937-1938
Television, 1954-1959
(See also Donald G. Tarbet)
Television Conference, 1952
Testing (See William D. Perry)
Third-Year Program, 1973
Upward Bound, 1970
Veteran's Administration Program, 1946-1953
Vocational Rehabilitation, 1954-1959
Vocational Rehabilitation Regional Institute, 1959-1960
War Effort, 1950
SERIES 2: CENTER FOR POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (CPEE)
This series relates to the effort of the School of Education to establish a Center for Population an Environmental Education. There are grant proposals, workshop and conference reports, minutes of staff meetings, and course proposals, as well as general correspondence about the center.
Box 2:1
AID Grant Proposal, 1972
Beach, Norton L., 1970-1972
Budget, 1971-1972
Carolina Population Center and Center for Population and
Environmental Education Relationships, 1971-1972
CPEE Staff Meetings, 1971-1972
Conference on Population Education, May 1971
Conference on Population Education, July 1971
Courses Under Development, 1972
Definitions of Population Education
Education Subcommittee of Youth Services Committee, n.d.
Ford Foundation, 1971
HEW Grant Proposal, 1972-1973
Hurow, Arthur, 1971-1974
International Workshop in Family Planning/Population
Program Administration, 1973
Interim Report-Population Education and the Community
College System, 1973
Library Shelf Proposal, 1972-1973
Mini-Course in Population Education for Pre-Service
Elementary Teacher Education, 1971-1972
Modified Project Summary, n.d.
October (1972) Inter-campus Workshop, 1972-1973
Planning Phase, n.d.
Population Education Students, 1972-1973
Reports on Population Education Trips, 1971
Smith-Reynolds Foundation, 1972
U.S. Programs Office, 1971-1972
SERIES 3: OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS
These files contain the Dean of the School of Education's records pertaining to associations, institutes, councils, boards, conferences, foundations and colleges and universities which are external to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Box 3:1
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education,
1958-1966
American Association of School Administrators, 1951-1952;
1958-1959; 1960-1969
Associated Public School Systems, 1950-1965
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
1954-1965
Board of Higher Education, North Carolina State, 1956-1960
Chapel Hill High School, 1937
Citizenship Education Project, 1951-1960
Council for Exceptional Children, 1965
Deans of Schools or Colleges of Education in the Southeast,
1950-1951
Department of Elementary School Principals, 1955-1962
Department of Public Instruction:
Carroll, Charles F., 1952-1954
Community College Committee, 1950-1952
Cooperative Study of Teacher Education Curricula, 1959-1961
Coordinated Study of Educational Administration, 1958
Division of Professional Service, 1946-1966
Visiting Committee, 1963
Ford Foundation, 1957-1963
(See also Fifth-Year Program)
Health, Education, and Welfare Department (HEW), 1957-1964
Joint Council on Economic Education, 1956-1963
Learning Institute of North Carolina, 1965
National Citizen's Commission, 1951-1955
National Citizen's Council for Better Schools, 1959
National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional
Standards, 1948-1959
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education,
1962-1965
Box 3:2
National Defense Education Act, 1958-1959
National Defense Education Act, Summer Institute, 1961
National Education Association, 1955-1965
National Science Foundation, 1956
(Training Program for High School Teachers)
North Carolina College in Durham, 1952-1956
Box 3:2 (cont.)
North Carolina College Conference, 1939-1965
North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers, 1948-1949
North Carolina Education Association, 1947-1965
North Carolina Education Commission, 1947-1949
North Carolina Resource-Use Education Commission, 1945-1952
North Carolina State Board of Education, 1943-1949
Person County Schools Survey, 1958-1960
Principals conference, 1954-1955
Research Triangle, 1959
Science and Math Fair Workshop Conference, 1954
Scott, Kerr, 1948-1949
Statewide Conference on Teacher Education, 1960
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools,
1948-1965
Southern States Work Conference, 1947-1951
State Vocational Education Commission, 1945-1946
University Council for Educational Administration, 1956-1965
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