University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Education.

The university began offering courses in education in 1877 and established the Department of Education in 1907. In 1913 the Department became the School of Education. In 1932 the Department was again created; and remained a department until 1948, when it once more became the School of Education. Today the School of Education offers both baccalaureate and graduate degree programs; it is administered by a dean, who reports to the Provost of the university.

From the description of Records of the School of Education, 1925-1974. WorldCat record id: 26707569

The School of Education had its roots in the University Normal School, a summer school for teachers, which began in 1877. The University Normal School was discontinued when North Carolina established normal schools throughout the state in 1884. However, the Department of Pedagogy, established in 1885, continued to offer courses in education at the university. Professors prominent in the department were Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble, Edwin Anderson Alderman, and Henry Horace Williams.

In 1907, the Department of Education was established, and in 1913 it became the School of Education with M. C. S. Noble as dean. Noble served until 1921. He was succeeded by Nathan Wilson Walker as acting dean, a position Walker held until the school was discontinued in 1932.

During Walker's tenure the Survey Committee on Consolidation, which was appointed by the governor to suggest methods of implementing the Act of Consolidation, recommended that the School of Education be returned to departmental status and that an all-campus division of education be established. See the Records of the Graduate School in the University Archives for material on consolidation and all-campus divisions of the university system.

The Department of Education was recreated in 1932 and remained a department until 1948, when it again became the School of Education. Chairmen of the Department were:

• 1932 - 1935 : Nathan Wilson Walker
• 1935 - 1937 : Marion Rex Trabue
• 1937 - 1938 : Arnold K. King, Acting
• 1938 - 1940 : Harl R. Douglass
• 1940 - 1948 : W. Carson Ryan

Deans of the School of Education, 1948 to the present, have been:

• 1948 - 1953 : Guy B. Phillips
• 1953 - 1964 : Arnold Perry
• 1965 - 1966 : John C. Otts, Acting
• 1967 - 1976 : Norton Lewis Beach
• 1977 - 1978 : Ira Gordon
• 1979 - 1982 : William C. Self
• 1982 - 1983 : James L. Paul, Acting
• 1983 - 1990 : Frank Brown
• 1990 - 1996 : Donald J. Stedman
• 1996 - 1998 : William Burke, Acting
• 1998 - June 2003 : Madeleine R. Grumet
• 2003 July - October 2003 : Fenwick English, Acting
• November 2003 - June 2007 : Thomas James
• July 2007 - 2008 : Jill Fitzgerald
• 2009 - : G. Williamson McDiarmid

From the guide to the School of Education of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1925-1974, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives.)