UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Geography records, 1923-1988.

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UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Geography records, 1923-1988.

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Description: Records, mostly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, containing correspondence, and faculty and departmental meeting minutes concerning staffing, equipment and space needs, and curriculum development. The collection also contains minutes of the Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Geography, which studied the courses offered in Urban Geography and the department's possible cooperation with other UWM departments in their urban projects. Reports and correspondence in the graduate program files document the department's attempts to establish a masters program and a doctoral program at UWM. The collection contains some reports about the federally funded NDEA Institute for Advanced Study in Geography, which introduced field geography to teachers of geography in grades 4-12. The Institute was held on UWM's campus and directed by UWM faculty and staff. The only pre-1955 item is Louise W. Mears' 1923, ""Around Milwaukee": land and lake as a laboratory," written while she was a geography teacher at the Normal School in Milwaukee. Finding aid available in the Archives.

1 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7272514

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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