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Identifier: RG N3/A0

Rutgers University College of Nursing Office of the Dean Records

Dates

  • 1952-1994

Scope and Content Note

The records of the College of Nursing, Dean's Office date from 1952 to 1994 and total 23.3 cubic feet. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1980s, during Dorothy DeMaio's tenure as dean. Records document the philosophy and evolution of nursing degree programs and curriculum, the development of a nursing doctoral program, the accreditation process, faculty and staff relations, faculty tenure review, and women in education.

Collection includes correspondence, memos, by-laws, minutes, course materials, reports, budgets, newspaper clippings, resumes, speeches, grant applications, and faculty evaluations. The formation and earliest years of the school are documented in the Accreditation Files and Historical Background series, although additional materials from the 1950s can be found throughout the collection. Curriculum and faculty are well documented, as are the accreditation and grant application processes.

Topics of special interest in the collection include the development of the nursing Ph.D. program, the first in New Jersey (Programs of Study) and the controversy over the University of Medicine and Dentistry's proposed Masters in Nursing program. UMDNJ's proposal was opposed by CN and other organizations that claimed the program would duplicate existing nursing programs during a nursing student shortage. Also of interest are files on the Educational Opportunity Fund in the Dean's Office Subject Files; the EOF was a special entry program for students unable to meet the normal financial and academic requirements for admission into the CN nursing programs.

Extent

23.3 Cubic Feet (22 boxes)

Physical Location

Stored offsite: Advance notice required to consult these records.

Language of Materials

English

Acquistion and Processing Note

This collection was obtained through administrative transfer.

Additional Description

Abstract

The records of the College of Nursing Dean's Office date from 1952 to 1994. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1980s, during Dorothy DeMaio's tenure as dean. Records document the philosophy and evolution of nursing degree programs and curriculum, the development of a nursing doctoral program, the accreditation process, faculty and staff relations, faculty tenure review, and women in education.

Organizational History of the Rutgers University College of Nursing Dean's Office

Abbreviations used in the finding aid include the following:
  1. CN: Rutgers College of Nursing
  2. HEW: U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare
  3. HHS: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  4. NLN: National League for Nursing
  5. RN: Registered Nurse
  6. SN: Rutgers School of Nursing
  7. UMDNJ: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
  1. 1. a four-year baccalaureate program that did not require previous nursing experience, the first of its kind in the state;
  2. 2. a two-year experimental program, the first of its kind in the nation (three-year programs were the norm);
  3. 3. a baccalaureate program for registered graduate nurses; and
  4. 4. a pre-clinical Preparation to Nursing program for students enrolled in hospital schools of nursing.

Arrangement Note

Records are organized in eleven series, arranged in alphabetical order:
  1. I. Accreditation Files
  2. II. By-Laws [Rules of Procedure]
  3. III. Committees
  4. IV. Dean's Office Files (includes chronological files, subject files, and files of Associate Dean Dorothy DeMaio
  5. V. Departments
  6. VI. Faculty (includes members and minutes of meetings
  7. VII. Grants
  8. VIII. Historical Background
  9. IX. Programs of Study (includes undergraduate, graduate, proposed Ph.D., and other programs
  10. X. Statistical Data
  11. XI. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Proposed Masters in Nursing Controversy.

Separated Material

Some materials from the Dean's Office Subject Files were transferred to other series. Department files, Committee files and "Old Course Outlines" were transferred to the Departments, Committees, and Programs of Study series. Departmental and Committee minutes and annual reports were retained in the Dean's Office Subject Files, however, as they were grouped by year as single units. Dean's Correspondence and "cc:" files were integrated into the Dean's Office Chronological Files.

One box of "miscellaneous" folders were filed as follows: R.A. Meeting minutes to Faculty meeting minutes; and Office Procedures Manual, General Information, and "Learning Experiences in Nursing and Allied Fields Taught in the First Six Years of the Eight Year Design" narrative report to Dean's Office Subject Files.

Duplicates were removed wherever possible. Rutgers publications, including catalogues, annual reports, newsletters, and commencement materials were transferred to pre-existing record groups in the University Archives. Carbon copies of confidential personnel records in Faculty files were removed. Purchase orders and receipts detailing grant fund expenditures for books, supplies, telephone calls, conference fees, etc. were removed; detailed summary reports of expenditures were retained, however.

Items Removed from the Collection:

For transfer to other record groups:
  1. Box 31: Rutgers College of Nursing convocation materials, student handbooks, bulletins, program guides
  2. Box 34: Rutgers College of Nursing and Graduate Program Annual Reports
  3. Box 36: Rutgers College of Nursing Annual Reports, other published materials
  4. Box 38: Rutgers College of Nursing Faculty and Student handbooks, other published materials

To be discarded:
  1. Box 24: Personnel records of faculty members: insurance forms, personal data, salary, personnel actions, timesheets (copies of Human Resources department forms)
  2. Box 26: Student health records
  3. Box 33: Purchase orders from GRANTS series
  4. Box 35: Purchase orders from GRANTS series

General

Abbreviations used in the finding aid include the following:
  1. CN: Rutgers College of Nursing

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Inventory to the Records of the Rutgers University College of Nursing Office of the Dean, 1952-1994 RG N3/A0
Status
Edited Full Draft
Author
Susan Chore
Date
November 1997
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Rutgers University Archives Repository

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