Box 6

Scope and Contents:

Staffing and budgetary matters concerning Dean's office, as well as some faculty/staff issues.

Scope and Contents: Bulk dates 1976-1977; primarily Dean Cobb.Documents represent communications between the DC department chairs and Rutgers U administration.Includes response of Deans of all colleges to "Operational Implementation of Actions on the Federated System," Bd of Gov. Oct 1974. A portion of documents from Dean Cobb dealing with budget, tenure/promotions process, summaries of meetings, allocation of faculty lines and other memoranda to department chairs. Minutes to Chairmen...

Scope and Contents: Dean Foster.Folder contents document the usual communications and activities between the Dean's office and DC departments. Dean Foster, who was an economist, taught courses within this department. Of interest is the amount of discussion between Cook College and DC. The documents also concern the role of DC faculty with the graduate program. This is an issue that was of particular concern to DC. An on-going concern of Douglass College Dean's involved maintaining their faculty's...

Scope and Contents: Dean Foster.Folder contains the usual communications between a department and the Dean's office plus considerable discussion of DC's role in undergraduate teacher preparation. University was in process of evaluating undergraduate education programs and feasibility of a university wide education department. DC Education Department considered especially weak in art, music and health education.Noteworthy is "Statement Regarding the Teacher Education Program at Douglass...

Scope and Contents: Dean Cobb.Folder documents contain several reports evaluating undergraduate teacher education at DC and Rutgers and proposals for Teacher Education programs. There is mention of merits of bilingual program. Memoranda also reveal that budget cuts had created a crisis in student teaching assignments, which could not be fulfilled.Position Paper on Undergraduate Teacher Education," by Dr. Ardath W. Burks addresses problems and generates considerable response and...

Scope and Contents: Report on Alumnae and Employer Evaluations of the Teacher Education Program - Douglass College, April 1973 by Margaret E. Baskenor.Report on Evaluation of Undergraduate Teacher Education Programs at Douglass College, Rutgers, The State University and College of Agriculture and Environmental Science," April 1973, NJ Dept of Ed, Div of Field Services Bureau of Teacher Education and Academic...

Scope and Contents: History of EOF at Rutgers: In 1963 Rutgers Educational Action Program was inaugurated to aid recruitment of minority students. In 1966 the Upward Bound Program was initiated to support minority students at Rutgers. The Urban University was instituted in 1969 at Newark, New Brunswick, Piscataway and Camden. The program greatly expanded opportunities to disadvantaged students (economically and educationally). In that same year the Educational Opportunity Fund was created to provide financial...