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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 |
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 |
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.
Back to TopThis 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.
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.
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.