This paper recalls the issues that led in the late 1960s to the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) resolution and statement on the Students' Right to Their Own Language. The paper describes some of the main events in the production of the resolution, and then discusses the response to the resolution of the National Council…

The history of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA) is examined. ACA is the parent organization of the American Association of University Women and the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors. ACA played a crucial bridging role in the history of higher education for women by simultaneously supporting conventional and radical…

Positions taken in Phi Beta Kappa orations between 1782 and 1837 were examined to determine whether partisan stands were taken on controversial issues. The orations that were located suggest that the speakers' social and political choices did not correlate with specific systems of ideas. The Enlightenment offered intellectual arguments as ways to…

In the early days of physical education, the value of physical fitness was associated with preparation for defense in wartime and preventive medicine. Physical fitness waned in importance in the period between the two World Wars, to become concommitant to other objectives of physical education. A resurgence in emphasis on fitness was triggered and…

The curriculum movement known as picture study was, in part, the result of the late nineteenth-century development of printing processes capable of reproducing works of art. This description of the reproductions used in picture study illustrates how popularist attitudes toward art and technological changes set the context for this art movement.…

This paper on special education in the early 20th century examines: the status of special education before World War I; changes in social philosophy that arose as a result of the war and their impact on education; the care and treatment of individuals traumatized by World War I; and the results of the war in improved theory and expanded knowledge…

Examines ideological and economic preconditions that brought about the feminization of teaching in the nineteenth century. Emphasizes urban/rural differences and the links between education and other sectors of the labor market and economy. (GC)

A historical review of outdoor education in the United Kingdom discusses early objectives of preparing young men for war, improving physical health and moral character, and preventing juvenile delinquency; girls' outdoor courses of the 1950s that emphasized hygiene, homemaking, and child care skills; and outdoor education's reflection of sex-role…

The role of the women's rights press in reporting on and advancing coeducation in the United States is considered. The women's rights press was linked to the women's rights movement and articulated the goal that women should enjoy full participation in all aspects of U.S. life, including higher education. This analysis is based on 12 of the most…

Any history of pharmaceutical education during the two years 1918 to 1920 would be wholly incomplete without a review of the influences, which have brought about the conditions during the period under consideration. In pharmacy, as in medicine and law, the preceptorial system largely prevailed for the first century of pharmacy in the United…

Autobiographical sketches of 67 retired male Oklahoma teachers, written in 1975, depict the historical variation of male dominance in education profession, male teachers' career patterns and social expectations of them as role models for boys and "fathers" to their communities during 1910s-30s. Included are tables of male teacher…

Describes the history, research, teaching strategies, and specialties of the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Documents effects of changing societal attitudes toward wildlife, pets, working animals, and food animals on curriculum, the systems approach to disease, comparative genetics, biotechnology, the ecology of…

During the decade that followed World War II, social studies education in the United States was affected by many societal changes, particularly the new socio-political climate and a widespread discontent with the state of postwar public education. By the mid 1950s there was a crisis atmosphere regarding U.S. education contributed to by limited…

For the first 200 years of American higher education, the baccalaureate program was shaped by the authority of tradition, seldom challenged, and easily accommodating new learning and changing social conditions. After the Civil War, the authority of tradition was undermined by emerging professional academicians, trained in particular bodies of…

The history of Black people's struggle for education is reviewed. It is argued that American education has helped to maintain the disadvantaged status of Blacks rather than acting as an aid to equality. (MC)