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1 UNI College of Social and Behavioral Sciences offering scholarships
Public Relations News Release 2010:146, p.1 		Applications are being accepted for the Alderman Scholars Program. The scholarship program is open to incoming freshman, transfer students, and current students. The Alderman Scholars Program was established by a grant from the Everett Alderman Endowment.
2 UNI professor has hope for kidnapping victims
Public Relations News Release 2009:40, p.1 		Katherine van Wormer is optimistic for kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard's recovery. What she experienced in captivity caused traumatic bonding, which is an attachment to a perpetrator of violence during a period of extreme stress combined with shame.
3 Other major administrative, service, and curricular changes
A Century of Leadership and Service 2:0, p.234 		The college adopts the semester plan to begin in summer, 1957; changes in student teaching supervision include resumption of work in Cedar Falls schools; institution of honors program and work with provisional students; photo.
4 Academic and administrative changes; physical expansion
A Century of Leadership and Service 1:0, p.393 		Survey of changes in curriculum, faculty, and facilities; the Seerley Hall murals; the acquisition of the west forty acres; photo.
5 Black History and Culture Workshop at UNI
Public Relations News Release 1969:681, p.1 		A three-week workshop will be held on campus to extend elementary and secondary students' knowledge of black history and culture; list of participating instructors
6 UNI Social Science Seminar in Europe Scheduled for Summer of 1971
Public Relations News Release 1969:675, p.1 		The itinerary will include visiting cultural attractions in Paris, London and Moscow, as well as the opportunity to study at Oxford University.
7 Five departments created
Northern Iowan 65:45, p.8 		Department of Social Science will be divided; list of PDLs announced.
8 Faculty Senate discusses topic of salary increase
Northern Iowan 65:33, p.3 		Call for reorganization of Department of Social Science.
9 Regents name Whitnah head of Social Science
Northern Iowan 65:3, p.4 		Professor Whitnah was approved as acting head and professor of history by the Board of Regents; biographical profile.
10 Social Science Department adds courses for fall
Northern Iowan 64:50, p.1 		Will offer two courses on social welfare.
11 Great decision . . . 1966
Alumnus 51:2, p.5 		Series of lectures on foreign policy topics offered; photo.
12 Giving talks on German socialism
College Eye 60:45, p.8 		Faculty will lecture on Nazism.
13 Von Schuschnigg to speak: Social science department sponsors lecture series
College Eye 60:44, p.1 		Peter Hoffman speaks about the upcoming series.
14 Social Science Department will sponsor history clinic
College Eye 60:38, p.4 		Description of NDEA summer institute.
15 Social science majors will meet Tuesday
College Eye 60:38, p.8 		Student teachers will meet.
16 Majors in social science meet Wednesday
College Eye 59:24, p.6 		Student teachers will meet.
17 Applications taken for 'exchange'
College Eye 59:18, p.4 		Opportunity to help in other countries.
18 London, Vienna, Berlin to highlight seminar
Alumnus 49:3, p.8 		Fifth seminar will also visit the Kremlin.
19 Breithaupt has plan for informal discussion groups
College Eye 58:23, p.1 		Professor Breithaupt will establish groups to discuss the teaching of large sections of psychology; photo.
20 Mexican tour scheduled for summer session
Alumnus 49:1, p.11 		About thirty people will participate in tour and receive 6 hours of credit.
21 Mexican study tour to be held this summer
Alumnus 48:4, p.5 		Will combine serious study with vacation travel.
22 Mexico study-tour planned for 1964
Alumnus 48:2, p.13 		Emphasis will be political, social, and economic changes.
23 Social Science at SCI--a 1963 profile
Alumnus 48:2, p.1 		Professor Howard describes recent changes in the social science curriculum including the addition of Asian Studies, special institutes, and new and old staff members; photo.
24 Exams for grad study in social science Monday
College Eye 57:24, p.8
25 Social Science majors to meet in Sabin
College Eye 57:22, p.3
26 Foreign language to be required in social science
College Eye 56:21, p.4 		Non-teaching social science majors will need to show foreign language proficiency.
27 College initiates first institute in Social Science
Alumnus 47:1, p.7 		Special program for high school teachers.
28 'Windows' to feature social science on TV
College Eye 56:15, p.5 		Donald Howard will talk about the objectives of social science classes.
29 Dr. Howard to attend foreign policy conference
Public Relations News Release 1960:529, p.1 		Professor Donald Howard of the department of social science attends a foreign policy briefing on Berlin in Washington, D. C. Also attending the conference will be President Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Allen Dulles, and Edward R. Murrow.
30 Local teacher wins ISTC scholarship
Public Relations News Release 1960:484, p.1 		Terry Halstead is admitted to the Summer Program on Asia, sponsored by the department of social science and directed by Professor Nathan Talbott. The program includes courses on Oriental civilization and history of the Far East.
31 ISTC students appear in ships program
Public Relations News Release 1960:479, p.1 		The department of social science sponsors the European Study Tour, where participants are to spend nine weeks studying in Western Europe and Russia, preceded by a talent show aboard the Empress of Canada.
32 Local teacher wins ISTC scholarship
Public Relations News Release 1960:484, p.1 		Area teachers are granted scholarships for their participation in the eight-week Summer Program on Asia. The program is sponsored by the department of social science, and is directed by Professor Nathan Talbott. Scholarship recipients listed.
33 Announce new summer faculty at ISTC
Public Relations News Release 1960:420, p.1 		Professor William C. Lang announces new members of the summer faculty for the departments of social science, history, humanities, mathematics, library science, art, psychology, and education.
34 Itinerary completed for European tour
Alumnus 45:4, p.90 		Forty students signed up; itinerary outlined.
35 Iowa State Teachers College Lecture-Concert Series tickets go on sale Tusesday (September 27)
Public Relations News Release 1960:35, p.1 		Season tickets for the Iowa State Teachers College Lecture-Concert Series are available at the College Crossroads. The season includes performances by Anna Russell, Robert Frost, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
36 1961 seminar in Europe offered by ISTC
Alumnus 45:3, p.18 		Fifty students will study at Oxford and Vienna.
37 Asian Program By Social Science Department
Old Gold 0:0, p.106 		The Department of Social Science creates programs and attempt to broaden student's horizons. In the Summer of 1960, an Asian program will be provided as a social studies workshop. The Department also sponsors Pi Gamma Mu and joins other departments in supporting the All-College Conference on International Affairs.
38 Social Science class in Europe in 1961
Alumnus 45:1, p.7 		Professors Jones and Bultena to lead tour.
39 Donald Howard to head Social Science
Alumnus 44:3, p.10 		Biographical profile; photo.
40 New dept. head
College Eye 50:35, p.6 		Professor Howard has replaced Professor Lang; photo.
41 Board of Regents approves budget, picks Howard
College Eye 50:31, p.1 		Breakdown of budget; Don Howard will replace William Lang, who was appointed Dean of Instruction.
42 Dr. Howard appointed as new Social Science Department head
College Eye 50:31, p.1 		Profile of Donald Howard; photo.
43 Future TC curriculum--Majors without minors
College Eye 50:29, p.1 		Longer majors without minors will be offered in the Departments of Science and Social Science.
44 T. C. leaves its mark on Oxford
Alumnus 42:3, p.16 		Description of experiences of students studying abroad; photo.
45 Social Science Plan European Seminar
Old Gold 0:0, p.112 		Description of the department and the different ways the department helps students to better understand the world; photos.
46 Fifty-three students will sail
Alumnus 42:2, p.10 		Social Science Seminar group will travel on the Arkadia.
47 'Hamlet' ends--last showing is tonight
College Eye 49:15, p.1
48 Social Science Seminar at Oxford University
Alumnus 41:4, p.7 		Will study in Oxford in summer 1958; side trips planned.
49 Second seminar in England planned in 1958
Alumnus 41:3, p.7 		Second social science trip in preparation.
50 Department of Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.54 		The department assisted in the television program "Landmarks of Iowa History"; the Iowa Historical Society published Dr. L. L. Sage's biography, William Boyd Allison: A Study in Practical Politics; photo.
51 Mexican tour reservations are available
College Eye 48:12, p.6 		Several openings are available.
52 Social Science sponsors Mexican tour
Alumnus 40:4, p. 		Eight-week tour planned for this summer.
53 Summer tour of Mexico will be on travel-for-credit basis
College Eye 48:5, p.8 		Louis Bultena will lead tour; a look at the itinerary.
54 Social Science Department plans Mexican study tour
College Eye 47:37, p.1 		A look at the tour planned for summer 1957.
55 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.104 		Brief description of the department; photo.
56 Departments begin moving to renovated Campus School
Alumnus 40:2, p.2 		Social Science moves into third and part of second floor; Earth Science moves to second floor; Business Education will move into first and basement floors; Education and English move into Auditorium.
57 Department to move next Friday
College Eye 47:21, p.6 		Several departments will be shifted as a result of vacancy and renovations in the old Campus School; name of old Campus School may be changed.
58 Herman Finer will deliver two lectures
College Eye 47:16, p.1 		On the subject of war.
59 Dr. Thompson retires as Social Science head
Alumnus 39:3, p.11 		Professor Lang will succeed Professor Thompson; Professor Howard will succeed Professor Lang as Coordinator of Curriculum and Assistant to the Dean of Instruction; photo.
60 Social Science Plans European Trip
Old Gold 0:0, p.92 		Description of the trip plans to Europe with approximately thirty-eight students accompanied by Dr. Thompson and Dr. Harris; photos.
61 Social Science dinner honors Dr. Thompson
College Eye 46:28, p.2 		Will retire September 1.
62 Thompson announces social science location
College Eye 46:25, p.7 		Will move to former Campus School.
63 Lang succeeds Thompson as social science head
College Eye 46:20, p.1 		Professor Thompson will retire; change will be effective September 1, 1955; profiles of both men; photo.
64 TC goes afield
Alumnus 38:4, p.6 		Professor Bultena describes class tour of Southwest; photo.
65 Plaehn shows slides of continental trip
College Eye 46:7, p.3 		To Social Science Department.
66 Meet Dr. Merle R. Thompson
College Eye 45:34, p.2 		Profile of Professor Thompson; photo.
67 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.245 		Brief description of the department; photo.
68 Tour of southwestern states offers social science credit
College Eye 45:22, p.1 		Description of trip that will study anthropology and sociology of minority groups
69 Southwest study tour scheduled for summer
Alumnus 38:1, p.8 		Will spend four weeks on ISTC campus and four weeks on tour.
70 Contemporary affairs has film each month
College Eye 45:3, p.6
71 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.160 		Description of the Social Science Department and photos of the faculrty and of some students; photo.
72 Special To: West Des Moines Express
Public Relations News Release 1952:469, p.1 		Two West Des Moines students have been elected to offices in Pi Tau Phi, a local social sorority. Jere Keeler was elected president and Betty Lou Murray, vice-president. Both are junior students majoring in social science.
73 M. R. Thompson, head of the college social science department, will address the Foreman's association of the Solar Aircraft company in Des Moines
Public Relations News Release 1952:432, p.1 		The invitation to address the group was the result of Thompson's report of the 56th Congess of American Industry held in New York, N.Y., in December. The report was given on the "Behind the Headlines" program originating in the radio studios.
74 Social science to lead coffee hour
College Eye 43:15, p.8 		Professor Plaehn will lead discussion.
75 Special To: The Daily Record
Public Relations News Release 1951:282, p.1 		The new year finds the college 75 years young, looking forward to the inquguration of its graduate program in the summer of 1952. A major curriculum revision for degree students began during the 1951 summer session.
76 Special to: Bremer County Independent
Public Relations News Release 1951:221, p.1 		Kenneth Kammeyer and Don Pothast, both of Waverly, have been formally activated into Alpha Chi Epsilon, a local social fraternity. Kammeyer is a junior student majoring in social science and Pothast is a senior student majoring in business education.
77 Special to: Waverly Democrat
Public Relations News Release 1951:222, p.1 		Kenneth Kammeyer and Don Pothast, both of Waverly, have been formally activated into Alpha Chi Epsilon, a local social fraternity. Kammeyer is a junior student majoring in social science, and Pothast is a senior sudent majoring in business education.
78 M. R. Thompson
Public Relations News Release 1951:201, p.1 		Thompson, head of the social science department, will attend the 56th annual Congress of American Industry in New York City, December 5 - 7.
79 Twenty-five faculty members will be on leave of absence during the 1951-52 academic year
Public Relations News Release 1951:63, p.1

Nine faculty members in the teaching department, three from the departments of education and English and speech, two from industrial arts and mathematics, and one from home economics, art, music, physical education for women, social science, and library.
80 Seven departments have been authorized by the state board of education to offer graduate level courses leading to the Master of Arts in Education
Public Relations News Release 1951:31, p.1 		In outlining the board of education's decision, Dean M. J. Nelson said graduate work offered by the education departments will be in four areas-elementary teaching, elementary supervisor, elementary principalship, and secondary principalship.
81 Seven departments have been authorized by the state board of education to offer graduate level courses leading to the Master of Arts in Education
Public Relations News Release 1951:25, p.1 		M. J. Nelson, dean of the faculty, announced today that Six of the departments - business education, education, English and speech, science, mathematics, and social science- will participate in the graduate program beginning in the summer of 1952.
82 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.68 		Brief description of the department; photo.
83 The United Nations delegate from India, Shamaldharee Lall, spoke Tuesday night, May 1, at the college
Public Relations News Release 1950:344, p.1 		Lall's address, "The United Nations Today," was given before an audience of approximately 500. His topic dealt with the structure of the UN, rather than with any controversial issue.
84 The doomed Red general in "Darkness at Noon" could easily be any one of several real victims of the bloody Moscow purge trials of 1936-38
Public Relations News Release 1950:326, p.1 		Events leading to the trials, says Lyman Harris, are typical of Russia's traditional policy of iron-hand rule at all cost. Lenin's death in 1924 touched off a battle for power between Stalin and Trotsky.
85 Two education conferences at Teachers College
Public Relations News Release 1950:33, p.1 		The education and social science departments are jointly sponsoring a conference for elementary and secondary school teachers of the social sciences. A second conference on industrial arts education will be held in the new arts and industries building.
86 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.51 		Brief description of the department; photo.
87 Pi Gamma Mu holds picnic at Hartman's
College Eye 41:29, p.7 		Seniors hold panel discussion on "Teachers College and the Social Science Department".
88 Two instructors added to faculty
College Eye 40:39, p.1 		Brief profiles of Professors Lang and Svenson.
89 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.40 		Brief description of the department; photo.
90 Social Science is not overcrowded
College Eye 40:30, p.4 		Professor Thompson believes that there is room for more good social science teachers.
91 Psychology classes take field trip
College Eye 39:40, p.4 		Visit schools in Eldora and Woodward.
92 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.41 		The department, with Dr. M. R. Thompson, is fulfilling the demands of the students with an increase enrollment with veterans and the constant changes going on in the world; photo.
93 Students see hospital for insane
College Eye 38:38, p.3 		Professor Bultena's sociology class visits Independence.
94 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.97 		Brief description of the department; photo.
95 Letter to the editor
College Eye 38:25, p.4 		Discuses the recent editorial comments concerning the "Contemporary Affairs" class at I.S.T.C.
96 Letters to the editor
College Eye 38:24, p.2 		Respond to criticisms of contemporary affairs class.
97 Roger's Rambling Remarks
College Eye 38:26, p.2 		Offers suggestions for improvement around the college.
98 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.47 		The Department of Social Sciences focuses on the social issues of the nation and world; photo.
99 Contemp, short but tough, causes grade-point slump
College Eye 37:32, p.3 		Professor Thompson talks about modifications and improvements in the Contemporary Affairs class.
100 Sociology class visits Eldora
College Eye 37:32, p.1 		Impressions of the trip.