Record Group 19 - College of Human Sciences and Education [obsolete, 2003; see RG 48]

Scope and content:

May include Hallie L. Hughes Scholarship; Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, and Families; Virginia Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs; Virginia Home Economics Association

Biographical / historical:

The first courses in home economics were offered in 1921, the same year women were first admitted as full-time students to the university. In 1924, the Department of Home Economics was formally established in the School of Agriculture, but was suspended in 1933 due to budget constraints. Four years later, the department was reinstated. From 1944 through 1951, the Virginia General Assembly required students in home economics to spend their first two years at Radford College, the Women's Division of VPI. However, the Board of Visitors did not authorize a separate department at the Blacksburg campus until 1958. Two years later the Departments at Radford and Blacksburg were merged to become the School of Home Economics. In 1964, the university and Radford College dissolved the merger, and the School became the College of Home Economics. In 1982, it was renamed the College of Human Resources.

Courses in education have been offered in specific programs throughout the history of the university. In 1951, the Board of Visitors approved a Master of Education degree, which was available in vocational academic areas on the Blacksburg campus and other areas on the Women's Division at Radford. A Department of Education [RG 15/29] was founded in the College of Arts and Sciences starting 1965, and the College of Education [RG 17] was established on July 1, 1971.

In 1996, the College of Human Resources and the College of Education [RG 17] merged to become the College of Human Resources and Education. In 2002, it became the College of Human Sciences and Education. In July of the next year, the College dissolved, and most departments joined the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS) [RG 48], which formed that same year.

Related material:

See also RG 17; RG 48.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Newman Library
Virginia Tech
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