A Century of Leadership and Service — July 1, 1990
| Page | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| viii | Preface | Professor Lang describes the circumstances of the writing of the centennial history; outlines aims of book. |
| xi | Acknowledgments | Professor Lang credits those who helped him in the research and writing of the centennial history. |
| 1 | The setting | Political and economic background in Iowa; orphans home movement; photo. |
| 7 | Gestation and birth | General educational background in Iowa prior to the founding of the Normal School; description of General Assembly actions which resulted in the founding of the school; initial actions of Board of Directors; photo. |
| 27 | Getting started | A look at the earliest days of the Normal School; description of living conditions; photo. |
| 30 | The first faculty | Biographical sketches of Principal Gilchrist and Professors Bartlett, Wright, and Webster; photo. |
| 37 | The quest for adequate financial support | Early changes in faculty; General Assembly actions affecting the Normal School; the building of the second hall: South Hall, later Old Gilchrist Hall; photo. |
| 52 | Student life | Account of student life, organizations, recreation, discipline, and curriculum in the first ten years of the Normal School; photo. |
| 71 | Administering the Normal School | Duties of the Principal and the Board with regard to appointments and curriculum; continuing difficulties with the Model School; salary controversies; photo. |
| 82 | Changing the leadership | Analysis of the Board's dismissal of Principal Gilchrist and election of Principal Seerley; photo. |
| 90 | The principal-elect | Detailed sketch of Homer Seerley's personal and educational background; photo. |
| 95 | The new administration begins its work | Principal Seerley realigns relations with high schools and colleges; assumes new title of President; photo. |
| 107 | Institutional growth and program expansion to 1890 | Enrollment grows; the Board outlines its authority more clearly; difficulties with the Boarding Department and physical facilities; photo. |
| 115 | Actions of the General Assembly--1890-1902; finally significant commitment | Analysis of the struggles to obtain adequate funding for the Normal School; the millage tax; the Auditorium Building dedication; photo. |
| 141 | Meeting educational needs, 1890-1902 | Organization of academic departments, military studies, the Training School; expansion of the curriculum; photo. |
| 154 | Administering a burgeoning normal school | Debate over the mission of the Normal School; disparity in salary for women and men; duties of Board; organization of library services; photo. |
| 175 | Life in the Normal School community | The beginnings of extracurricular activities and groups at UNI including athletics and sports, oratory and debate, music, literary societies, and the Alumni Association; photo. |
| 218 | The promise of the twentieth century; the teachers colleges | The historical background for the change from normal schools to teachers colleges; photo. |
| 223 | The Normal School moves toward collegiate status | Changes in faculty, development of the curriculum, and new construction financed by the millage levy bring the Normal School to a new level; photo. |
| 237 | The General Assembly and the State Normal School 1904 through 1909 | Detailed discussion of the various inquiries, investigations, and responses associated with defining the appropriate role for the Normal School; attempts to form a unified governing board for the three state schools; photo. |
| 255 | Institutional growth; transfer of governance to the State Board of Education (1906 through June, 1909) | Organization of the school into formal departments; Dean of Women Walker develops guidelines for rooming houses; photo. |
| 268 | Through troubled times (1909-1920) | The unified Board of Education gets organized; faculty and curricular changes; photo. |
| 282 | The Board of Education acts to fulfill its mandate | Board considers proposal to limit Teachers College to a two year curriculum. |
| 295 | The Coordination Plan debated and rescinded | President Seerley and school supporters attempt to counter the plan to limit the Teachers College to a two year curriculum; they and their political allies manage to defeat the scheme. |
| 318 | New and expanded curricula and services (1913 through April, 1917); the Claxton Commission | The college expands its services to include extension, rural education, Bible study, student health, and dormitories; a close look at the Claxton Commission Report and the Inside Survey; photo. |
| 348 | World War I and the Teachers College; contention in Cedar Falls | Effects of World War I on the campus, curriculum, and students; detailed look at the student teaching controversy with the Cedar Falls schools. |
| 369 | A time of transitions; the "Golden Twenties" | Survey of the local and national background for the Teachers College in the 1920s; photo. |
| 379 | Increased needs during a time of economic stress | Presidents Seerley's efforts to meet generally austere funding from the General Assembly; photo. |
| 393 | Academic and administrative changes; physical expansion | Survey of changes in curriculum, faculty, and facilities; the Seerley Hall murals; the acquisition of the west forty acres; photo. |
| 420 | Celebrating a half century of service | The Campanile project; the 50th commencement; services of the college to the state. |
| 428 | President Seerley retires; an assessment | President Seerley is honored at his retirement in 1928; Professor Lang offers an assessment of his achievement; photo. |
| 436 | Continuing common experiences | The role of the college in regulating behavior; the influence of religion on students and faculty; photo. |
| 448 | Expanded co- and extra-curricular activities | Survey of activities of literary societies, drama, athletics, Greeks, debate, oratory, and college student publications; photo. |
| 484 | Other facets of institutional life | Brief survey of founding and activities of faculty social organizations. |