Explains and defends the position of Dean of Women as necessary to support non-traditional and new academic programs, and also to provide expanded services for women returning for schooling and for those of traditional college age. (EJT)

Coulter believed that one of the first duties of the dean was to inspire and uplift the students in active service. He spoke of the soul and of the spirit and of the divine quest of "lifting youth into higher ideals, into a nobler life." (Author)

A biographical sketch of LeBaron Russell Briggs, "the first officer in the history of American higher education charged with responsibility for student relations as separate and distinct from instruction." He was appointed Dean of Harvard College in 1891. (Author)

This brief biography of Marion Talbot (born in 1858) touches on her interest in educating the consumer, her belief in equality between the sexes, her work as Dean of Women at the University of Chicago, and her research. Talbot was concerned about the changes urbanization, industrialization and technology were making. (Author/JEL)

Presents a short biographical essay on Herbert E. Hawkes who died in 1943. Before becoming dean of Columbia College, he had published noteworthy textbooks on mathematics and had taught at Yale and Columbia. His educational and administrative policies are reviewed here. (BEF)

Reviews the work of Gertrude S. Martin who did research on the position of dean to women and other research in a field that would come to be known as student personnel work. Her career personified problems she had identified. (BEF)

Presented at the 1979 conference of the National Association for Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors in Washington, D.C. This session shared information about the participation of Blacks in this organization and launched the beginning of a long-range project by the minority concerns committee to document Black history in NAWDAC. (Author)

Reviews the life of Thomas Arkle Clark, former Dean of Men at the University of Illinois, whose writings and speeches helped define the Dean of Men role and publicize the office. (Author)

A survey of the N.A.W.D.A.C. membership was conducted in early 1976. The survey was: (1) to provide a profile of current members; (2) to identify ways members perceive the Association; and (3) to identify trends in the profile and status of members by comparing results with a 1970 survey. (Author)

In this historical overview the president of the National Association for Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors cites four principles which have remained unchanged throughout the Association's history. Also included are suggestions for future objectives of the Association. (KRP)

The author, a former executive secretary of the National Association of Women Deans, traces the history of women deans, the national conferences they held, the major issues they struggled for and the major problems they face at present. This paper was presented to the Conference of the NAWDAC in Philadelphia in 1975. (SE)