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PROVENANCE
Transferred to the University Archives in 1962, 1964, 1968, 1970,
1979, 1987, and 1995.
ARRANGEMENT
The records of the Graduate School of Education have been organized
in the following series:
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AGENCY HISTORY
One mission, stated by Benjamin Franklin, for the founding of the Academy
of Philadelphia was to prepare "Schoolmasters in the Country, to teach
children Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and the Grammar." Guided by this
tradition, the University always considered the preparation of teachers
one of its important functions. In 1894, the University appointed Dr.
Martin Grove Brumbaugh as the first professor of Pedagogy in the Department
of Philosophy and introduced formal courses to update elementary and
secondary school teachers. With a generous increase in subsidy from
the State Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1913, the program for "in-service"
teachers developed into a full-fledged school the next year. The University
appointed Frank Pierrepont Graves as the first dean of the School.
The School instituted a program in vocational teacher training in 1918,
which expanded into two programs in 1921--the program for the Preparation
of Teachers of Vocational Training and the program of Home Economics.
Three more major programs were added in the 1920s--the program for the
Preparation of Teachers and Supervisors of Arts in 1922, the program
for the Preparation of Teachers and Supervisors of Health and Physical
Education in 1925, and the program for the Preparation of Teachers and
Supervisors of Commercial Subjects in 1926.
The School developed in new directions in the 1930s. To advance the
knowledge through research in education, the School launched a Graduate
Division and began conferring Master of Science in Education degrees
in 1931. The next year, it created a program for the Preparation of
Elementary School Teachers and took Illman Training School for Primary
and Kindergarten Teachers as its affiliation. The School also diversified
and expanded its scope of interest throughout the decade. Following
the pattern of many other teaching schools at the time, the School established
in 1935 the Department of Nursing Education for the training of teachers
and administrators in nursing education and public health. (The Department
became a separate school, the School of Nursing of the University of
Pennsylvania, in 1944.) In addition to the nursing education program,
the School created the program for the training of Teachers of Special
Classes and Corrective Speech in 1936 and the program for the education
of School Dental Hygienists in 1938.
In 1944, the School of Education conferred its first doctoral degree
in education. With more development in the 1950s, the School was restructured
and renamed as the Graduate School of Education in 1961, transferring
its undergraduate programs to the College of Arts and Sciences and the
College of Liberal Arts for Women. The Graduate School of Education
has since endeavored to advance knowledge in educational theories and
methodology. In addition to the preparation of the traditional educational
personnel including teachers, reading specialists, educational administrators,
school psychologists, and counselors, the School has trained research
scholars specialized in tackling critical educational problems for institutions
of higher learning, research centers, and school districts . In the
recent decades, the faculty members of the School have also made great
contributions to the solving of basic educational issues facing all
schools in the United States.
The following is a list of the persons who have served as dean or acting
dean of the School since 1914.
| Frank Pierrepont Graves |
|
1914-1921 |
| John Harrison Minnick |
|
1921-1948 |
| Emit Duncan Grizzell |
|
1948-1956 |
| William Edwin Arnold |
|
1956-1963 |
| Morris Simon Viteles |
|
1963-1967 |
| William Benfamin Castetter |
|
1967 (Acting Dean)
1974-1975 |
| Neal Gross |
|
1968-1974 |
| Dell H. Hymes |
|
1975-1987 |
| Marvin Lazerson |
|
1987-1992 |
| Nancy Homberger (Acting Dean) |
|
1993-1994 |
| Susan H. Fuhrman |
|
1995-now |
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The records of the Graduate School of Education consist mainly of the
following series: Faculty Minutes, 1914-1988; Committee Records, 1915-1988;
Office of the Dean, Correspondence, 1932-1992; Student Files, 1944-1961;
Student Records, 1914-1987; Miscellaneous Student Academic Records and
Faculty Teaching Records, 1917-1958; Phi Delta Kappa Records (a professional
fraternity for men in education), 1916-1959; and Records of Educational
Programs, 1904-1967.
For details, see the Scope and Content notes attached to the inventory
of each individual series.
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