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Freedman, Morris – American Scholar, 1980
A personal memoir of Marjorie Hope Nicolson and the graduate English department she headed at Columbia University in the 1940s and 1950s. (SJL)
Descriptors: Biographies, Department Heads, Doctoral Programs, Educational History
Neckers, James W. – 1979
The history and development of Southern Illinois University's chemistry department is recorded by a 40-year professor in the department. The study spans the period from 1927 when the university was a normal school with 1,200 students and a faculty of 45, to 1967 when the enrollment was 19,260 students, 1,994 of them in chemistry. Always a major…
Descriptors: Books, Chemistry, Department Heads, Educational Development
Ridley, Jack B. – 1984
This book records highlights of the development of electrical engineering education at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR), first known as the University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (MSM). Chapter I focuses on the formative years (1871-1924), discussing the first course of study in electricity, expansion of the electrical…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Department Heads, Departments
Maik, Thomas A. – ADE Bulletin, 1988
Reviews the history of a college English department from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. (MM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, English Curriculum, English Departments
Ryan, W. Carson, Jr. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Recent developments in educational journalism have had to do chiefly with the efforts of professional journals to maintain the publication of scientific and technical material in the face of a high-cost emergency that has not yet wholly passed away; with the creation of new State and national association journals or the re-establishment of older…
Descriptors: Information Services, Publicity, Periodicals, Journalism

Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The data presented in this bulletin were furnished, for the most part, by the various State departments of public instruction, on the Bureau of Education blanks. The statistics for Kansas and for Missouri were obtained entirely from printed State school reports, those for Iowa largely from printed reports, and those from Mississippi were obtained…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Statistical Data, State Departments of Education
Lund, John – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1942
In presenting this review of current theory and practice in graduate level pre-service and in-service education for school administration, one major purpose has been kept in mind, namely, to provide some significant and stimulating documentation with respect to on-going plans, programs, and problems. The inquiry, upon which the material presented…
Descriptors: Administration, School Administration, Public Schools, Department Heads
Otis, Arthur B., Ed. – The Physiologist, 1986
A comprehensive history of physiology in America can be obtained from the records of physiology departments. This supplement to "The Physiologist" contains departmental histories of nine institutions. Featured are the physiology departments at: (1) State University of New York at Buffalo: 1846-1986; (2) University of California at Berkeley; (3)…
Descriptors: Departments, Graduate Medical Education, Higher Education, History
Jacobson, Willard J. – 1978
This paper presents a summary of the history of the Department of Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University along with a list of significant dates and occurrences within that department from 1892 to the present. It includes a list of doctorates and dissertation titles from 1921 to 1977. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Departments, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History
Haggard, Frank E. – ADE Bulletin, 1993
Outlines two major problems facing English department administrators in their attempts to hire adequate new faculty: (1) reduced institutional resources; and (2) the complex problems connected with faculty retirements. Suggests methods by which administrators can best cope with limited hiring opportunities. (HB)
Descriptors: College Faculty, English Departments, English Instruction, Higher Education
Vandenberg, Peter – 1994
By the late 19th century, the new universities in the United States had become so closely intertwined with the research imperative that their future depended on their position at the center of knowledge creation. The tension between the liberal arts college and the "modern" research university initiated a process of differentiation that…
Descriptors: English Departments, Higher Education, Professional Recognition, Research
Rogers, James Frederick – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, School Administration, Supervision, State Departments of Education

McKague, Ormond – Journal of Educational Thought, 1980
This paper examines the CCF's educational philosophy prior to and during its first term as the government of Saskatchewan (1944-48), to assess the extent to which the party's articulated policy was in line with its socialist origins and the degree of implementation it achieved in the Department of Education. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy
Harris, Charles B. – ADE Bulletin, 1995
Traces the historically optimistic view of college-secondary school cooperation. Asks why such optimism has faded in recent years. Considers how college-level departments of English can collaborate with high school English programs, such as in collaborative conferences. (HB)
Descriptors: College English, College School Cooperation, English Curriculum, English Departments

Guinn, Dorothy Margaret – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1998
Suggests that W. Ross Winterowd's most significant and influential contribution to the field of rhetoric and composition is the Rhetoric-Linguistics-Literature Program (RLL), started in 1972 as a program in the Department of English at the University of Southern California. Presents a history of the program, noting its "virtual demise"…
Descriptors: Educational History, English Departments, English Instruction, Graduate Study