The Center for Teaching and Learning, Dean Vito Perrone Records consist mainly of personal/academic records, the New School of Behavioral Studies in Education, professional activities, articles, reports, and correspondence. The records are arranged into five series. SERIES I: Perrone's Personal and Academic Record: Box 1, Folders 1-7 Includes Perrone's UND academic record sheets, 1967-1985; correspondence, 1973-1986; congratulatory letters on his appointment as Vice-President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986; and, miscellaneous certificates and news clippings. SERIES II: New School of Behavioral Studies in Education: Box 1, Folders 8-48, Boxes 2 and 3 Arranged choronologically, inlcludes Final Reports for Trainers of Teacher Trainers, Program of the U. S. Office of Education that describes and evaluates UND's New School, 1973-1974. Perrone was a director of TTT and New School received the majority of its funding through the TTT Program. Also included are: articles by Perrone and others regarding New School; articles and reports about ideas and programs that flowed from TTT and New School, namely USOE Follow Through Project implemented to train Indian teachers, and Future Indian Teachers (FIT); articles about the idea of Openness and the Open Classroom with accompanying Child, Parent, Teacher Interviews which evaluated Open Education in North Dakota; reports on the Statewide Teacher Center Project, 1976-1985; articles about the idea of accountability; and lastly, the process that created the Center for Teaching and Learning out of the New School of Behavioral Studies in Education and the School of Education in 1972. SERIES III: Perrone's Professional Activities, Box 4 Includes articles, reports, correspondence by Perrone regarding various issues: faculty development, 1978-1983; general education requirements at UND, 1979-1986; North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation, 1975-1986, for which Perrone was the Coordinator; and standardized testing for the National Consortium on Testing, for which he was President, 1975- 1984. SERIES IV: Perrone's Formal Presentation and Lectures, 1968-1986, and Publications 1964-1986, Boxes 5 and 6, Folders 1-34 Arranged chronologically. SERIES V: Other Professional Activities, Box 6, Folders 35-60, Box 7, Folders 1-18 Includes reports, programs, correspondence regarding the American Issues Forum (Perrone was on the National Planning Committee), 1974-1976; the North Dakota Bicentennial Celebration, 1975-1976, and the North Dakota County School Records Project, 1976; the NEH Institute on Western and Local History, 1976-1977; the UND Center for Peace Studies for which Perrone was the Coordinator, 1982-1986; and the Prospect Archive, 1984-1985. First addition: This addition to the Center for Teaching and Learning, Dean Vito Perrone Records consist of the following records: correspondence, 1981-1986; materials on Bicentennial activities including workshops, mailings, and events in North Dakota, 1975-1976; National Consortium on Testing (NCT) records, including membership lists, financial records, minutes of board meetings, correspondence, agendas of membership conferences, NCT publications on testing, and numerous articles regarding competency testing, 1977-1984. Perrone was a NCT board member. The addition also includes correspondence and publications for the Career Opportunities Program of Future Indian Teachers (FIT), 1973-1975, and miscellaneous articles arranged in alphabetical order by subject area or title. The articles discuss a variety of education-related issues such as teacher education, accreditation, testing, accountability, elementary and secondary education, school health services, professional responsibility, teacher evaluation and employment, and undergraduate education. Second addition: This addition to the Center for Teaching and Learning, Dean Vito Perrone Records contains drafts of the final report to the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Local and Western History, speeches, correspondence, and a 1977-78 program announcement from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Third addition: This addition to the Center for Teaching and Learning, Dean Vito Perrone Records contains general correspondence, 1968-1984, reports concerning the operation of the Center for Teaching and Learning and the outreach programs that Perrone and CTL helped initiate or evaluate. Materials from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), Mid- Continent Regional Education Laboratory (McREL), National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are included. Perrone was a member and consultant to these organizations. Also found are miscellaneous materials from the many organizations and agencies that Perrone and CTL were associated, including Governor's Task Force, Governor's Conference on Public Education, Manitoba Project, Rocky Mountain Teachers Corps Network, and the Northern Plains Teachers Corps Network. The correspondence covers a wide variety of topics, including, curriculum development in New School, legislative concerns about education, continuing education for teachers, inter- departmental concerns at UND, and requests for information or admission to the New School. Perrone was involved in the development of the New School and its amalgamation with the College of Education to form the Center for Teaching and Learning. Perrone was a pioneer in the "open classroom" movement in the United States. He and his colleagues from around the country developed a new form of education, patterned after the Infant Schools of Great Britain. There is a great deal of correspondence between Perrone and educators in Great Britain and Canada, many requests for admission to the New School for Master's, Doctoral, and Post-Doctoral work. from as far away as Australia and Africa. Educators from around the world were requesting employment information for openings to the faculty of the New School. Innovative teaching techniques, continuing education, faculty-community relationship within the schools, and parent involvement were some of the new concepts proposed by Perrone. The correspondence was divided between an alphabetical and chronological system. The alphabetical system covers the years 1968 through early 1974. The chronological system starts in 1973 and goes through July 1984. The other materials have been organized in an alphabetical form by subject. An article by Perrone entitled "Barriers to Adventurous Teaching in the Humanities" that appeared in Teaching and Humanities vol. 1 no. 1, is included in Box 23, Folder 26. Fourth addition: This addition to the Center for Teaching and Learning, Dean Vito Perrone Records dates from 1983-1986. The majority of the material consists of committee materials on which Dean Perrone served. There is also material about the Peace Studies program at the University of North Dakota, correspondence, and seminar materials. The material has been kept in the original order.
