Hart--Irving Harlow (Extension Faculty and Archivist)

Displaying 1 - 50 of 99 in reverse chronological order
# Title Date Summary
1 Untitled
College Eye 48:29, p.2 		Disagrees with statements made in the New York Times concerning American college students.
2 The mystery of Shakespeare's elm
Alumnus 36:4, p.11 		Searching for tree planted in 1916 to honor Shakespeare.
3 The Laboratory School
First 75 Years 0:0, p.113 		History of name changes from Training School to Campus School to Campus Laboratory School as well as a description of the changing philosophy of the school.
4 Tenure trends
First 75 Years 0:0, p.70 		Survey of years of experience of faculty.
5 The student-teacher controversy with Cedar Falls, 1918-1919
First 75 Years 0:0, p.111 		Objections of some Cedar Falls citizens lead to withdrawal of College students from student teaching assignments.
6 The Training School, 1892-1928
First 75 Years 0:0, p.108 		Normal School re-establishes training school; efforts assisted by increased population on College Hill.
7 The Model School, 1883-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.106 		Difficulties in establishing and running the Model School.
8 Practice teaching in the Iowa State Normal School before 1883
First 75 Years 0:0, p.105 		Initial practices in student teaching.
9 Curricular revision in 1949
First 75 Years 0:0, p.103 		Results of revision include required general education, reorganization of education courses, and an increase in the graduation requirement from 186 to 196 hours.
10 Curricular trends, 1917-1949
First 75 Years 0:0, p.102 		Professional education requirements decrease.
11 The Inside Survey of 1917
First 75 Years 0:0, p.101 		Results of survey published in bulletin.
12 Curricular revision in 1914
First 75 Years 0:0, p.101 		List of majors revised and expanded, minors required, credit system changed from term to hours.
13 General and professional education in the curricula, 1886-1914
First 75 Years 0:0, p.100 		Development of the curriculum under President Seerley.
14 Scholastic and professional curricular content, 1876-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.98 		Survey of the combined professional and general nature of Principal Gilchrist's curriculum.
15 Influence of the system of unified control
First 75 Years 0:0, p.92 		Survey of ways in which the College has limited itself and is limited by outside influences to its role as a teacher training institution.
16 Preparation for all fields of public school work
First 75 Years 0:0, p.87 		Survey of ways in which the College curriculum changed to meet changing needs; description of degree, diploma, and certificate programs.
17 Preparation for all levels of public school work
First 75 Years 0:0, p.81 		Initial curriculum recognizes need for preparation for all levels of teaching; surveys of effects of the College on Iowa; description of ways in which the College met Iowa needs.
18 The annuity system of 1944
First 75 Years 0:0, p.75 		Contract with TIAA adopted; participation of current faculty is voluntary, but mandatory for new faculty.
19 Part-time Service (1934)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.74 		Retired faculty can accept appointment to perform some sort of service for one-third salary.
20 Compulsory retirement (1934)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.74 		Policy requires faculty to retire at end of year at which they reach 70; meets strenuous protests.
21 Proposed annuity system, 1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.72 		Attorney General rules against proposal.
22 Detached service (1916-1930)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.72 		Older faculty members carried on salary with only nominal duties.
23 Early tenure policies
First 75 Years 0:0, p.70 		Early practices were nominally annual appointments, but, in practice, were permanent.
24 Organization of Extension Service, 1913
First 75 Years 0:0, p.125 		President Seerley announces organization of extension work at a meeting of teachers and superintendents in October 1913; Study Centers arranged; Professor Colegrove organizes the effort.
25 Extracurricular activities
First 75 Years 0:0, p.146 		Broad survey of the history of literary societies, campus publications, music and athletics, Greek organizations, and religious groups on campus.
26 Student government since 1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.144 		History of student self-government units.
27 Student government, 1886-1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.141 		Rules and regulations relating to students under President Seerley; establishment of offices of Dean of Women and Dean of Men; beginnings of student self-government.
28 Student government and social education, 1876-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.139 		Description of rules and regulations relating to students in the early days of the Normal School.
29 Radio education
First 75 Years 0:0, p.133 		Brief history of the use of radio in the educational program of the College.
30 Survey of Extension Service, 1938
First 75 Years 0:0, p.131 		Faculty committee studies Extension; aims and objectives outlined; name changed from Extension Division to Bureau of Extension Service.
31 Consultative Service
First 75 Years 0:0, p.130 		Began in 1916; continued with faculty members spending one or two quarters in field.
32 Correspondence study service
First 75 Years 0:0, p.128 		History of correspondence study.
33 Extension class work
First 75 Years 0:0, p.128 		Extension Service offers courses for college credit.
34 Study Centers, 1913-1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.126 		Study Centers organized to emphasize methods of teaching subjects; taught by College faculty on Saturdays; well-received.
35 Housing of the Model School and its successors
First 75 Years 0:0, p.114 		Brief description of buildings in which the school was housed.
36 Origins of Extension Service at the Iowa State Teachers College
First 75 Years 0:0, p.124 		President Seerley considers increasing call for assistance and advice from the College.
37 Redefinition of the term rural education
First 75 Years 0:0, p.122 		College has been occupied with rural education for many years; philosophical differences center around the idea of whether or not rural education is different from other education; decrease in numbers of rural schools may make question moot.
38 Major in rural school supervision
First 75 Years 0:0, p.12 		College establishes new major in 1949.
39 Four-Quarter rural program, 1943
First 75 Years 0:0, p.120 		President Price puts renewed emphasis on elementary education; four quarter curriculum seen as move toward increasing standards in rural teaching.
40 Rural education in the doldrums
First 75 Years 0:0, p.120 		During the 1930s, rural education is absorbed into the general mainstream of education after the loss of its proponents.
41 Department of Rural Education, 1915
First 75 Years 0:0, p.118 		The College established a department devoted to rural education and sets up demonstration schools; the Iowa Club carries out studies relating to rural education.
42 Influential factors before 1913
First 75 Years 0:0, p.117 		President Seerley responds to critics of the College by establishing the Rural Education Department and the Extension Service.
43 Sabin's report on rural schools, 1897
First 75 Years 0:0, p.117 		Report outlines recommendations for improvement of rural education; the Normal School opens a summer session to help meet needs of rural teachers.
44 Rural education under Gilchrist
First 75 Years 0:0, p.116 		Principal Gilchrist reports that 92% of Normal School students taught school after leaving; only 10% of these students were graduates.
45 The four-year college curriculum, 1904
First 75 Years 0:0, p.16 		Normal School curriculum officially includes a four-year bachelor's degree.
46 The millage levy policy, 1902-1915
First 75 Years 0:0, p.40 		Over $870,000 results from millage; leads to construction of Women's Gym, Physics, Library, Sabin, Wright, President's House, Home Management House, and first unit of Bartlett.
47 Continuing appropriations, 1890-1925
First 75 Years 0:0, p.39 		1890 biennium includes "annually hereafter" provision; beginning of more generous appropriations.
48 A struggle for existence, 1876-1890
First 75 Years 0:0, p.38 		Normal School established with only minimal legislative support and without other support such as land grants; 1876 biennial appropriation was $14,500 followed by very slow growth to $30,200 for 1888 biennium.
49 The State Board of Education (since 1909)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.33 		New governing board assumes duties; performance over the years.
50 The State Board of Control, 1898-1909
First 75 Years 0:0, p.31 		State Board of Control exerts authority over Normal School governing boards.