College of Liberal Arts records, 1952-2008 (bulk 1960-2004).

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College of Liberal Arts records, 1952-2008 (bulk 1960-2004).

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The College of Liberal Arts Records consist of records of the Dean's Office as well the records of several individual departments and academic programs in the College. The records primarily document the liberal arts curriculum at Oregon State University; publications by faculty; and conferences, lectures, and special events sponsored by the College. Records of the American Studies Program and the Departments of Art, Anthropology, Economics, English, History, and Sociology are included in this collection. Of special note in the Dean's Office records are reports from a 1974 Board of Visitors to the College; materials pertaining to the retirement celebration for Dean Bill Wilkins in 1994; and student credit hour reports for the late 1970s through 1980s. The Economics Department records consist of publications by faculty and include multiple publications by Thomas D. Bible; Lafayette G. Harter, Jr.; B. Starr McMullen; R. Charles Vars, Jr.; and Murray Wolfson. Several of the publication pertain to the economics of forestry and wood products. The English Department records include a text on report writing by J.F. Ligon and the proceedings of the Summer Conference on Science Writing. In addition to department annual reports, the Sociology Department materials include a reading packet for a course on Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture taught by Dwaine Plaza and Kathleen Stanley. The History Department records include a substantive file documenting the visit of Paul C. Warnke to OSU in 1983 to deliver the Ava Helen Pauling Lectureship for World Peace and papers written by students in History 310 pertaining to a variety of OSU-related topics using primary sources in the OSU Archives. Of note in the Anthropology Department records are an historic register nomination for Waldo Hall prepared in 1996 and a report of an archeological excavation conducted in downtown Corvallis in 2001. The Art Department records include data summaries provided by the Higher Education Arts Data Services (HEADS) Project that provides detailed information on the arts in higher education. The data include enrollment, degrees offered, operational budgets, and faculty salaries. The microfilmed records include correspondence and related materials documenting the Oregon State Penitentiary University which offered college-level courses to inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary taught by OSU faculty.

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Oregon State Penitentiary

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Anthropology.

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Oregon State University. School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Gilkey, Gordon.

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Sociology.

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Ligon, J. Frank (John Frank), 1917-

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Art.

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Oregon State College

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Wolfson, Murray

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Summer Conference on Science Writing (1965 : Oregon State University)

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Economics.

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Oregon State university

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McMullen, B. Starr, 1951-

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Vars, R. Charles.

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Oregon State University. Dept. of History.

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Wilkins, Billy Hughel, 1931-

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Bill Wilkins was a faculty member and administrator at Oregon State University from 1961 until his retirement in 1994. He was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department in 1961 and served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1982 to 1994. A native of Texas, Wilkins earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Texas A & I University and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas. His college education was interrupted by four years of active duty in the Air Force, inclu...

Oregon State University. College of Liberal Arts

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At the time that it gained land grant status in 1868, Oregon State University (then Corvallis College) was a typical liberal arts college of the day. As the college's curriculum expanded into the sciences and technology in the early 20th century, the liberal arts were de-emphasized; they were grouped in to the Division of Service Departments. In 1919, the division was renamed the School of Basic Arts and Sciences. With the reorganization of Oregon's public higher education in 1932, the liberal a...

Oregon State University. Dept. of English.

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Warnke, Paul C., 1920-

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Paul Culliton Warnke (1920-2001) was a lawyer and government official. He was general counsel at the Department of Defense from 1966 to 1967, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1967 to 1969. He was director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1977 to 1978, and chief U.S. arms control negotiator from 1977 to 1978. He was a member of the Presidential Advisory Board on Arms Proliferation Policy from 1995 to 1996, and was a member of the Arms ...

Harter, Lafayette G., Jr., 1918-2011

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