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Collection Number: 40043

Collection Title: School of Education of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1925-1974

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Size 10.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 7100 items)
Abstract The university began offering courses in education in 1877 and established the Department of Education in 1907. In 1913, the department became the School of Education. In 1932, the department was again created; it remained a department until 1948, when it once more became the School of Education. Today the School of Education offers both baccalaureate and graduate degree programs; it is administered by a dean, who reports to the university's provost. Records include orrespondence and other files relating to the administration of and programs in the School of Education. Also included are files relating to the proposed Center for Population and Environmental Education, 1970-1974, which was never established.
Creator University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Education.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives.
Language English
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[Identification of item], in the School of Education of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40043, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Received from the School of Education, 1979-2007.
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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: University Archives Staff, July 1979, July 1992, June 2010, September 2019

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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The School of Education had its roots in the University Normal School, a summer school for teachers, which began in 1877. The University Normal School was discontinued when North Carolina established normal schools throughout the state in 1884. However, the Department of Pedagogy, established in 1885, continued to offer courses in education at the university. 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 Records of the Graduate School in the University Archives for material on consolidation and all-campus divisions of the university system.

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:

1932-1935 Nathan Wilson Walker
1935-1937 Marion Rex Trabue
1937-1938 Arnold K. King, Acting
1938-1940 Harl R. Douglass
1940-1948 W. Carson Ryan

Deans of the School of Education, 1948 to the present, have been:

1948-1953 Guy B. Phillips
1953-1964 Arnold Perry
1965-1966 John C. Otts, Acting
1967-1976 Norton Lewis Beach
1977-1978 Ira Gordon
1979-1982 William C. Self
1982-1983 James L. Paul, Acting
1983-1990 Frank Brown
1990-1996 Donald J. Stedman
1996-1998 William Burke, Acting
1998-June 2003 Madeleine R. Grumet
July-October 2003 Fenwick English, Acting
November 2003-June 2007 Thomas James
July 2007-2008 Jill Fitzgerald
2009- G. Williamson McDiarmid
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Records include orrespondence and other files relating to the administration of and programs in the School of Education. Also included are files relating to the proposed Center for Population and Environmental Education, 1970-1974, which was never established.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Office of the Dean, 1925-1973.

4300 items.

This series includes material 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 of, 1957

Aycock, William B., 1957-1964

(Chancellor of the University)

Branch, Arthur, 1957-1965

(Business Manager of the University)

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

Consolidated University Office: Anderson, Donald B., 1962-1965

(Vice President for Academic Affairs)

Consolidated University Office: Combined Education Staff Meetings, 1959-1966

Consolidated University Office: Cooperative Research Committee, 1956-1957

Consolidated University Office: Friday, William, 1956-1965

(President of the University)

Consolidated University Office: Graduate Executive Council, 1957-1963

Consolidated University Office: Gray, Gordon, 1950-1953

(President of the University)

Consolidated University Office: Purks, Harris, 1955

(Provost and Acting President)

Consolidated University Office: 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

Education, Department and School of: Minutes of Staff Meetings, 1934-1964

(includes some committee reports)

Education, Department and School of: Courses and Curricula for Programs and Certification, 1955-1957

Education, Department and School of: Educational Needs Committee, 1963

Education, Department and School of: Enrollment, 1950-1955

Education, Department and School of: Graduate Committee, 1937-1957

Education, Department and School of: Plans and Projects Committee, 1951-1964

Education, Department and School of: Requests for 1948-1949 and 1949-1951

Education, Department and School of: Undergraduate Committee, 1956-1963

Extension Division: General, 1945-1965

Extension Division: 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

General College: Administrative Board, 1953; 1956-1961

Godfrey, James L., 1957-1965

(Dean of the Faculty)

Graduate Center at 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

Graduate School: Correspondence with Dean, 1946-1965

Graduate School: 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, 1959-1960

House, Robert Burton, 1946-1957

(Chancellor of the University)

Jordan, Arthur M., 1954-1960

Junior College Conference, 1958-1959

Junior High Conference, 1959

King, Arnold K., 1925-1965

Kinston Center, 1964

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

Placement Bureau, 1937-1951

Prison Education Project, 1960

Psychometric Laboratory, 1951-1956

Reading Program, 1951-1956

(see also William D. Perry)

Recreation Leadership Curriculum, 1954

Religion, 1949

(Christianity and public education)

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, 1954-1957

(Dean of the Faculty)

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

Conference Proceedings, 1968-1969

Two booklets: "Leadership in Early Childhood Education (March 1968) and "Focus on Teacher Education for Early Childhood Programs" (April 1969)

RT 20190912.4.

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600 items.

This series relates to the effort of the School of Education to establish a Center for Population and Environmental Education. Included 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

Agency for International Development (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

Center for Population and Environmental Education (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, undated

Ford Foundation, 1971

Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of (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, undated

October (1972) Inter-campus Workshop, 1972-1973

Planning Phase, undated

Population Education Students, 1972-1973

Reports on Population Education Trips, 1971

Smith-Reynolds Foundation, 1972

United States Programs Office, 1971-1972

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2200 items.

This series includes the dean of the School of Education's records pertaining to associations, institutes, councils, boards, conferences, foundations and colleges and universities that 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

Department of Public Instruction: 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 of (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

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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