This book records highlights of the development of electrical engineering education at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR), first known as the University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (MSM). Chapter I focuses on the formative years (1871-1924), discussing the first course of study in electricity, expansion of the electrical…

A comprehensive history of physiology in America can be obtained from the records of physiology departments. This supplement to "The Physiologist" contains departmental histories of nine institutions. Featured are the physiology departments at: (1) State University of New York at Buffalo: 1846-1986; (2) University of California at Berkeley; (3)…

This paper presents a summary of the history of the Department of Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University along with a list of significant dates and occurrences within that department from 1892 to the present. It includes a list of doctorates and dissertation titles from 1921 to 1977. (CS)

Traces the career of Claude A. Eggertsen, who helped to establish comparative education as the centerpiece in the Social Foundations Department of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Discusses Eggertsen's involvement with the Comparative and International Education Society and his view of global awareness as essential…

The paper presents an overview of enrollment in college-level geography courses from 1949 to 1978 and predicts enrollment trends for the near future. All data are based on the Directory of College Geography of the United States. First published in 1949, the directory lists all college and university departments offering geography, the size and…

College summer sessions, and specifically the summer program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison between 1885-1985 are discussed in two papers and a conference summary. In "History of Summer School at the University of Wisconsin," John W. Jenkins and Barry J. Teicher examine the emergence and nature of summer programs in the context of the…

Offers a historical sketch of the development of faculties of education in U.S. universities. Reviews prevalent relationships between faculties of education and university central administrators. Suggests ways that professors of education can improve their political and academic positions on campus. (DMM)

In briefly tracing the history of music studies in American higher education, the author notes that, as conservatories of music were absorbed by general colleges and universities, conflicts of goals and procedures between conservatory faculty and parent university often went unresolved and that lack of music department assimilation still exists.…

In volume 1, the Commissioner of Education introduces topics to be covered in the report and discusses the Bureau of Education's work. Chapter 1 concerns current education topics, including education boards and commissions, education associations, higher education, education standardization, public schools, departments and branches of study,…

This volume presents three previously unpublished papers, which constitute the personal statements of an emeritus professor, author, and scholar in the field of educational civics, philosophy and the history of education about his understanding of the meaning of that part of the professional preparation of teachers known as "educational…

This annual bulletin, formerly prepared and published by the National Association of State Universities, has been published by the Bureau of Education for the past six years. The data, given are taken from reports received from the offices of the presidents of the various institutions, and the figures printed are substantially as given in those…

The work of the Bureau of extension of the University of North Carolina is presented here as typical of what can be done in making widely serviceable, the resources of an institution of higher learning. The university of North Carolina chartered in 1789 is one of the oldest of the State universities. Its genesis and development have been along…

The history and current status of honors programs at the University of Maryland, College Park, are discussed, with some reference to special recent programming for gifted students. The following historical developments are covered: honors programs at Columbia College in the early 1900s, the idea of honors as a separate upper division program at…

The way in which an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics at the University of California (Berkeley), tried to raise its status and adhere to academic values of a research university after starting out as a low prestige undergraduate program is analyzed. Some of the related research questions are: whether academic departments…

This bulletin provides a comprehensive account of the establishment of the cooperative system of education in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, from conceptualization to implementation. The cooperative course was not the product of an academic laboratory of pedagogical research, but rather an investigation of the…