David W. Minar Papers, 1943-1974.

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Minar, David W. David W. Minar Papers, 1943-1974.

David W. Minar Papers, 1943-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122401451

The papers include biographical material, graduate school files (University of California, Berkeley), correspondence, teaching files, department chairman's files, papers and speakers, publications, and miscellany. The general correspondence includes material concerning Minar's appointment, faculty rank, salary, teaching, departmental activities, writing, consulting work, travel, and work with Northwestern's Center for Metropolitan Studies. The teaching files consist primarily of lecture and reading notes, problems and exams, reading lists, and class schedules. Of some interest is the folder on SIMSOC, a course in which students functioned in a simulated society. The professional organizations files document Minar's work in the American Educational Research Association and the American Political Science Association. The research files include material on an analysis of voting and opinion in the San Francisco and Oakland area on right-to-work laws; interviews and reports on the relationships between school boards and municipalities; and a study for the United States Office of Education on educational decision-making in suburban communities. The consultant files pertain to a variety of projects, including a study of the Bloomington, Illinois school system. A major portion of the publications subseries pertains to two books (dealing with education and state politics ) which Minar wrote with Michael Usdan and Emanuel Hurwitz, both published in 1969.

7.6 cu. ft. (23 boxes).

Northwestern University