School of Education Records, 1930/2008

Access and use

Location of collection:
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

College of William and Mary, School of Education Records, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Collection context

Summary

Extent:
46.00 Boxes
Creator:
School of Education
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

College of William and Mary, School of Education Records, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains subject files, publications, reports, and other material related to the School of Education at the College of William and Mary. The collection includes correspondence from the Dean's Office, photographs of special events, committee reports, and records of the Historic Triangle Substance Abuse Coalition (HTSAC).

The contents of this series were transferred from the former University Archives Publications Collection and include fliers, announcements, and other printed material distributed by and about the School of Education and education courses at William and Mary.

This folder includes flyers, invitations, brochures and other material about The School of Education and its people.

Materials included are from the school year 1999/2000, including the summer of 2000.

A festive occasion, a dinstinguished author and You, 6-8:30PM, School of Education

Scope and Contents flyer for 2nd annual sustainability summit, October 25, 2014, W&M School of Education

flyer for Hult Prize: How will you change early childhood education in urban slums?

This accession includes records related to the Doctoral Dissertation Study Group, Educational Adminstration Study Group, Interim Advisory Committee to the Dean, Undergraduate Elementary Education Study Group and the Undergraduate Education Study Group. An inventory is available in the Special Collections Research Center.

This accession contains office files from 1972-1985, including publications, student questionnaires, course outlines, task force reports, procedural guidelines, and institutional reports.

This accession contains large three-ring binders containing the report of the Leaders for Instructional Supervision in Special Education (LISSE) Project.

This accession includes School of Education and College of William and Mary records including committee minutes, long-term planning, budget outlays, and similar material for the 1980s through 1995. The coverage is not comprehensive.

Contains correspondence, programs, announcements, clippings, and photographs from the School of Education's Distinguished Lecture Series from 1987 to 1994. The Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored and funded by alumni of the School of Education, provided one lecture each year to highlight issues and concerns in the field of education. Each lecture series contains planning documents for the event, any correspondence with the speaker, and programs from the lecture.

Contains correspondence, clippings, publications, committee files, and other material from the Dean's Office in the School of Education at the College of William and Mary. Included are news clippings about the School of Education from the 1990s to 2006; Faculty meeting minutes from 1975 to 1993; Dean's correspondence from 1987 to 1990; documents related to the restructuring of the School of Education from 1995 to 1996; and various School of Education committee files from 1984 to 1995.

Contains faculty meeting minutes for the School of Education from 1962-1989; minutes of the Curriculum Committee for the School of Education from 1970-1984; clippings and records relating to the history of the School of Education; and various proposals for new programs in the School of Education.

Contains minutes from faculty meetings; minutes were also accompanied by Parliamentary Procedure at a Glance: Group Leadership Manual for Chairmanship and Floor Leadership by O. Garfield Jones, Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York, 1971.

Contains extraneous items from faculty meeting minutes, curriculum committee records, and folders related to other topics (alphabetized).

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Contains folders on various topics (alphabetized)

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Contains grant administration records, financial records, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper articles pertaining to the Historic Triangle Substance Abuse Coalition (HTSAC), a division of the School of Education at the College of William and Mary.

Contains articles written by Dr. James Patton, professor in the School of Education, as well as guides and handbooks from Project Mandala, a federally-funded research project serving students and their families who exhibit at-risk characteristics. Dr. Patton was the director of Project Mandala from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Biographical / historical:

The School of Education was created as a distinct entity within the academic structure at the College of William and Mary in 1961. During ensuing years, the traditional commitment to undergraduate education for teachers has been supplemented by a wide range of graduate degree programs, including conferral of the first doctoral degree in Education in 1972. In the past decade the School of Education has become an institutional leader in advanced studies, as it has accounted for nearly a third of the master's degrees and over half of the doctoral degrees awarded at William and Mary each year.

William and Mary enhanced its formal role in the preparation of future educators starting in 1888 when the Virginia General Assembly appropriated substantial annual grants for the express purpose of funding the College to combine liberal education with certification of teachers for the Commonwealth's emerging public school system. This was reaffirmed in 1906 when the Commonwealth stated that one of its primary objectives in assuming responsibility for the College as a state institution was to insure a source of well educated and trained public school teachers throughout Virginia. In subsequent decades, the College's claim to excellence in professional education escalated due to innovations in two areas: its programs for educating school principals and superintendents; and, founding of the Matthew Whaley School, one of the most influential laboratory schools in the nation.

See http://www.wm.edu/education/overview/history.php for additional information about the School of Education.

Acquisition information:
Acc. 1990.022 received 03/1990; Acc. 1994.055; Acc. 1998.015; Acc. 2007.61 received 8/14/07 from Diane Shelton of the School of Education. Information about acquisitions received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.
Arrangement:

This collection is not yet fully arranged and described. Researchers may wish to consult with a staff member for further information in advance of using the collection.

Accruals:

Future accruals are expected.

Physical / technical requirements:

Parts of this collection are stored offsite. Please ask staff for assistnace.