Records, 1903-1988.

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Records, 1903-1988.

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Minutes documenting faculty governance, annual reports, correspondence, budgetary records, committee records, personnel records, academic departmental and program records, general files, and student academic advising records document the Dean's role as the chief academic administrator of the College of Arts and Sciences. The records pre-date the inception of the Dean's Office in 1906, and chronicle the administrative reforms and modernization within the College of Arts and Sciences, particularly the growth of participatory democracy; recruitment of women and minority faculty members; increasing specialization within the curriculum; tenure issues; and expanding campus enrollment corresponding with the growth of a diverse and talented faculty.

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Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

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Love, Donald M. (Donald Melbourne), 1894-1974

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St. John, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1857-1935

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Wittke, Carl Frederick, 1892-1971

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Wittke earned his Harvard AM in 1914 and his PhD in 1921. From the description of Notes in History 9, 1913-1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075090 From the description of Notes in History 3, 1915-1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075225 Historian, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Oberlin College. From the description of Correspondence, with Agnes Inglis, 1942-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 343680...

Robinson, Howard, 1885-

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Cole, C. N. 1871-1945

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Mackay, Alfred F.

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Stewart, Blair, 1900-

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Hellmuth, William F.

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Reich, Donald Raymond

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Oberlin College. College of Arts and Sciences.

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The system of faculty self-government, and the complex structure of elected councils and committees which gave rise to the creation of a Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1906, grew out of decisions made in the 19th century, most notably the adoption of the Finney Compact in 1835 which gave control of the academic affairs of the College from the Board of Trustees to the faculty. Charles E. St. John (1857-1935), appointed as the first Dean in 1906, resigned after one year, at which time...