Focuses on impact that emerged from combined resources of counseling center/psychology department/dean of students office at Colorado State University (CSU) during late 1960s and early 1970s when CSU was site of significant innovations in counseling field. Briefly chronicles history, identifies key participants, and highlights factors that…

Notes that University of Missouri at Columbia has been major training ground in counseling psychology for more than 40 years. Explores its development and influence on the field through use of historical archives and comments from faculty, graduates, and American Psychological Association site visit reports. (Author/NB)

Describes role of Teachers College, Columbia University, in history and development of counseling psychology as science and profession. Looks at early history, post-World War II development, integrating relationships, and professional leadership. Notes that faculty and graduates of program have provided leadership in defining and implementing…

Reviews history of counseling psychology at University of Minnesota, noting contributions of Donald Paterson and his associates in 1920s and 1930s and of E. G. Williamson, John Darley, and Gilbert Wrenn in establishment of American Psychological Association (APA) Division of Counseling Psychology. Notes that Minnesota offers APA-accredited…

Presents brief history of Counseling Psychology Program in Department of Psychology at Ohio State University (OSU) with respect to persons and events that helped establish and maintain it within profession. Discusses institutional characteristics and relates historical events that affected program to the program's development, beginning with…

Reviews the history of the creation of the College of the Virgin Islands in 1963 to satisfy local needs. Describes its programs since then until the present. (EF)

The history of the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing (SCCEN) is presented in the following chapters: (1) "Postwar Nursing and Nursing Education"; (2) "Southern Nurses Press for Regional Action"; (3) "The Structure of the Council: Stability in the Face of Change"; (4) "The World of the Council:…

Discusses the history, functions, and services of community colleges and how the speech communication program and faculty can serve as a critical link between college and community. (PD)

The little known Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in the 1920s is an example of the marginalization of women in adult education. Its story, focusing on women as adult students and as makers of social change, enriches the history of the field. (SK)

This is a series of short biographical essays on LeBaron Russell Briggs (Harvard), Marion Talbot (University of Chicago), Thomas Arkle Clark (University of Illinois), and Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry. These were pioneers in student personnel work at the turn of the century. (BEF)

Canada's Frontier College began in 1899 to bring literacy and citizenship education to immigrant men; in the 1920s it offered university education. However, its early history embodied a legacy of nativism, anticommunism, racism, and sexism as it attempted to assimilate adult literacy learners into Anglo-Canadian sociocultural norms. (Contains 19…

Examines the evolution of comparative education and international education, as well as their merger, in terms of a "genealogy" detailing destinations and activities of scholars from the 1930s to the present, primarily in Europe and North America. Discusses a variety of definitions for comparative education and international education. (SV)

Descriptions of selected college reading improvement programs (most of which were begun in the 1920s or 1930s) reveals that with the exception of increased standardization in the areas of administrative concerns, little seems new. Reviewing the cases of seven college reading improvement programs (Harvard, Hamline, Amherst, University of Chicago,…

Continuing education professionals have long been interested in telecommunications media because of their potential value in extending instruction to distant students. The first mass medium to offer a timely means of distance instruction was open-broadcast radio. During the 1920s and 1930s, 13 United States colleges offered credit courses over the…

This paper examines the history of the Women's Studies Program (WSP) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), as well as the history of women at the university. In 1892 Blanche Davis became the first woman to receive a degree from UNR, and by the turn of the century women faculty and students were a regular feature of campus life. Women's…