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Box 8

Contains 13 Results:

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 1

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A few letters, pro-forma. Nothing remarkable.

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 2

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A few documents related to the assignment of faculty lines.

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 3

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Dean Foster.

Folder contents include proposals and memoranda concerned with the question of continuing with a Physical Education program at DC, dropping the Phys Ed requirement, and discussions regarding combining programs with Cook College. Shared facilities necessitated a new facility, which is mentioned in documents.

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4

Scope and Contents: Dean Foster.Folder contents include memoranda and correspondence that reveals the tensions between the DC history department and the RU administration in the debate over college department independence and intercollegiate cooperation. The specific issues arose over cut backs in faculty, resulting in loaning and borrowing faculty between the colleges. A proposal for DC to take over history for Cook is shot down by DC.Noteworthy is mention of the first conference on...
 File — Box: 8, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents: Dean Foster and Acting Dean Brownlee; (very little of Dean Cobb).Douglass College's connection with Rutgers and its funding was based on Rutgers' Land Grant College status and the inclusion of Home Economics in DC's curriculum.Folder Contents include correspondence, memoranda, budget memoranda, program proposals. Documents reveal several functions of the Dean - intervening in squabbles between departments, in this case Home Ec and Psychology, placating disgruntled...