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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Academic Distinctions committee at the University of Oregon was concerned with reviewing the requirements for achieving various academic distinctions. Collection contains material regarding a new grading system and the honors college, 1970-1971. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Eric W. Allen (1879-1944 ) was the first Dean of the School of Journalism, University of Oregon, and held that post from 1916 to his death in 1944. The collection (1917-1934) contains personal and professional correspondence, and a few manuscripts. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Alpha Delta Sigma (ADS), a national honor society sponsored by AAF, recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement in advertising studies. The collection includes chapter handbooks and scrapbooks, convention materials, photographs, financial records, correspondence, and membership information, 1942-1957. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The social fraternity Alpha Tau Omega was founded in 1865 at the Virginia Military Institute, and the Oregon Gamma Phi chapter was founded in 1910 and was closed in 2000. The collection contains historical information, pledge song information, and issues of the chapter publication, The Bumper, 1954-1966. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Established in 1942, the Asian Studies Program at the University of Oregon is one of the oldest interdisciplinary programs in the United States to focus on Asia. The collection contains files on the Pacific Rim Studies center, program evaluation, outreach to public schools, funding and grant proposals, essay contests, correspondence, and committee and department meeting minutes, 1966-1982. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Asklepiads Pre-Med Society is a student-run organization at the University of Oregon open to all students interested in the medical field. The collection (1929-1983) contains meeting minutes, ritual, photographs, and treasurer's reports. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Wallace Baldinger was a professor of Art at University of Oregon, and later became Director of the Museum of Art (now the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art). The collection contains a manuscript written in 1983, by Baldinger, titled, "The University Museum of Art During My University Tenure, 1944-1970." |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John H. Baldwin (1951-2005) was a professor in the Planning, Public Policy, and Management (PPPM) program in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon (UO), the founding director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at UO, and was head of the Environmental Studies Program. The collection (1972-2005) contains Baldwin's faculty and administrative papers, professional research and service files, course materials, and personal papers. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Thomas O. Ballinger (1911 - 1998) was a professor in Art Education at the University of Oregon beginning in 1952, and during the 1950's he undertook research projects regarding the people and art of Nepal. The collection (1952-1971) contains his faculty papers, and they include correspondence and committee files as well as research files and reports from Ballinger's work in Nepal. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | George Belknap (1905-1996) was a student at the University of Oregon (UO), and would later become a faculty member, the UO Editor, and also a published author who was especially noted for his Oregon, and UO histories. The collection (1930-1991) contains research files on philosophy, Oregon history, and the history of UO, an unpublished manuscript titled, The Limerick: A Critical Study, administrative faculty files, as well as personal files, including personal correspondence and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Beta Phi Mu, the library and information studies honor society, was founded at the University of Illinois in August, 1948. The collection contains the University of Oregon chapter records consisting of bylaws, ritual information, correspondence, committee information and minutes, member and initiate information, treasurer's books and receipts, and a brass wick lamp, 1973. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Edwin R. Bingham began his career as a professor of History at the University of Oregon (UO) in 1949 and retired to professor emeritus status in 1982. His major research areas included Pacific Northwest History and American cultural history. The collection (1905-1994) contains Bingham's faculty papers and correspondence files from his tenure at the UO, and also research files and publications largely regarding the history of the Pacific Northwest. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Laura J. Bock was a student at the University of Oregon during the 1960s who took part in civil rights activism and anti-vietnam protests at the university. The collection (1962-1969) contains political ephemera such as flyers and posters, memos, buttons, and underground newsletters and publications, as well as Bock's personal notes, correspondence, and an oral history (with transcript). |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Quirinus Breen served as a professor at the University of Oregon form 1938 to 1964. Breen taught in the history department, focusing his studies on Greek, Roman and French history during the Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation eras. The majority of the collection consists of lecture notes and course descriptions from the history courses he taught at the University of Oregon as well as the course notes for a class in this History of Education at Grand Valley State College. Additional materials include Breen’s unpublished papers as well as his personal correspondence. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | William Cadbury has served at the University of Oregon since 1961 and continues to act as a professor of Emeritus in the English department today (2015). His study focuses on film theory and criticism. The Collection of William Cadbury's Faculty Papers consists of a loose-leaf copy of his book titled Getting the Point: Film as Literature. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Campus Operations oversees the design and construction, maintenance, repair, renovation, cleaning of campus buildings and building systems, generation and distribution of utilities, and the stewardship of university grounds. The collection contains records of facilities services and campus operations and material includes physical plant, buildings, meeting minutes, annual reports, committee files, 1927-1994 |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Campus Planning and Real Estate manages the creation of spaces at the University of Oregon. The collection (1900-1992) contains architectural drawings, building project specifications, maps, floor plans, patterns (documents relating to pattern language), and documents relating to the Oregon Experiment including final reports. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Centennial Planning Council governed planning for University of Oregon's 100 year anniversary celebrations in 1976, and in the same year, the United States Bicentennial celebrations. The collection includes Centennial and Bicentennial history and planning records, office and project files, correspondence, financial documents and publicity, and 100 years 100 trees project information, 1961-1977. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration, a division of the Institute for Community Studies, was established in 1964 with funds granted by the Research and Development Program of the United States Office of Education. Collection includes correspondence, committee and general reports, and general office records, 1966-1970. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon Center for the Sociological Study of Women (CSSW) began in 1973, and after a $3.5 million endowment, the CSSW grew to become the much larger Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the center. Source: Center for the Study of Women in Society webpage. http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=5 |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | University of Oregon Charter Day cerebrations commemorate the University's founding on October 18, 1876. The collection contains printed event programs for Charter Day celebrations for the years 1951; 1954; 1956; 1957; and 1959. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The College of Human Development and Performance at the University of Oregon opened in 1947, and closed in 1995. The collection (1913-1994) contains records from multiple departments and the college which include the Office of the Dean, physical education, health department, parks and recreation, leisure studies, human services, and gerontology. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Committee on Appointments at the University of Oregon dealt with assisting graduating (or graduated) students seeking (mostly) teaching jobs. The collection (1911-1912) contains committee, faculty, and employer correspondence and memoranda, including recommendation letters. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Committee on Status of Women at the University of Oregon may have begun operating in the 1970s and may have consisted of only women; by the 1990s, males were included in membership and the committee reported to the University Senate. The collection contains committee charges, correspondence, and reports regarding (among other topics) sexual discrimination, tenure, and pay rates, primarily about female faculty, but also students. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Community Action program originated in the Department of Human Services and participants undertook action in local communities. The collection contains two copies of a VHS video of the project. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Comparative Literature offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. It is also the home of the journal Comparative Literature. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of this program and the literary journal Comparative Literature. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Thomas Condon (1822-1907) was an Irish Congregational minister, a geologist and paleontologist who was appointed University of Oregon's first professor of geology in 1876 and continued as professor and chair of Natural Sciences until 1907. The collection (1897-1906) contains lecture notes, writings by Condon on a new fossil Pinniped, and books on skeletons and Pinnipeds owned by Condon. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon offers a minor concentration, the Kidd Tutorial program (a yearlong course for undergraduates), and a masters degree. The collection contains the records of short story winner of W. Kidd, 1974. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Delta Nu Alpha is an international organization dedicated to transportation and logistics. The collection contains University of Oregon chapter records that document the functions, activities, and people of the organization. Records include correspondence, newsletters, meeting minutes, membership files, national materials, subject files on transportation topics, and photographs, 1947-1958. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon offered a major and minor in American Studies from 1984 until 1991. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The genesis of the UO Department of Anthropology can be traced to the arrival of Dr. Luther S. Cressman in 1929, who was hired to develop advanced research in sociology and to teach social anthropology; by 1935-1936, Cressman had established himself as an active archaeologist, and he became the first, and sole, member of a newly created Department of Anthropology. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes and staff reports, course information, faculty bulletins and legislation, conference materials, Department Head meeting minutes, research grants and proposal files, department and biennial reports, slides depicting prehistoric humans from cave walls in France and Spain, and other materials. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Biology department at the University of Oregon offers expertise and research opportunities in a wide range of disciplines including Neuroscience, Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Evolution, Ecology, and Marine Biology. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon first offered computer science classes as a part of the Math department in Summer 1969 and the Department of Computer and Information Science was created sometime between 1970 and 1971. The collection includes meeting minutes and reports of the curriculum committee, computer center advisory committee, computing policy committee, staff meetings, and collaborations with Oregon Career Information Systems, 1962-1982. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The study of literature, writing, and rhetoric has been a part of the curriculum of the University of Oregon since it opened its doors in 1877. The collection (1893-2004) contains the records of the Dean, administrative office, and faculty, and includes memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, program reviews, and other historical records. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | During the 1950s and 1960s at the University of Oregon, language study was offered within the Foreign Language Department. The collection (1948-1967) contains records largely from the Classic and Modern language major (sometimes referred to as a Department in its own right). |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The departments of Geography and Geology were closely intertwined until the 1970's at the university of Oregon even though the Department of Geography was officially created during the 1932/33 school year. The collection contains departmental administrative files. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon offers undergraduate major and minor, Master's and Ph.D options. The collection contains records transferred from the Department of German and Scandinavian and from the former German department which also taught Russian language and literature. Materials include correspondence, faculty meetings, advising, visiting speakers, committee minutes, reports, policy and program information, and department files, 1962-1984. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of History at the University of Oregon offers major, minor, and graduate degrees. The collection (1940-1999) includes faculty and committee minutes, curriculum change material, Beekman Chair files, and documents relating to history of department faculty, among other material. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Household Arts, later renamed Home Economics, was a department at the University of Oregon from 1917-1974. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon was established in 1978 and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. Collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and general departmental records, 1968-1976. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon offers majors, minors, and graduate degrees. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of this department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Military Science was established at the University of Oregon in 1919, although the school had sponsored military training through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program before the creation of a Military Science department. The collection includes department files and ROTC/Air Force ROTC information, audiotapes, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, newsletters, student orientation and training, and protest information, 1916-1972. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon offers doctorate, graduate and undergraduate degrees. The collection (1934-1956) contains correspondence, information on prize funds, annual reports, and a file on the Danforth Conference on Religion and Philosophy . |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Physics at the University of Oregon grew out of the Natural Philosophy curriculum that was offered at the university beginning the year it was founded, 1876. The collection contains grant reports and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission records. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon offers majors, minors, and graduate degrees. The collection (1933-2008) consists of committee, advisory council, and task force files, department minutes and correspondence, curriculum changes files, University of Oregon's School of Desegregation Training and Research Institute files, and mock Republican Convention files. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and a Psychology Clinic. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of this department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Religious Studies department at the University of Oregon was created in 1966. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon offers classes that focus on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the French, Italian, and Spanish language speaking worlds. The collection includes department files, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and office files. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon was created in 1930. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The study of rhetoric and performance has been a part of the curriculum of the University of Oregon since it opened its doors in 1877; the Department of Speech also used to offer classes in radio, film, theatre study, and also dramatic performance. The bulk of the collection (1948-1999) consists of records when the Department of Speech was heavily involved with theatre performance. |
