Sharon E. Rosenkoetter joined the faculty of Oregon State University in 1999 as an Associate Professor in the Human Development and Family Sciences. Rosenkoetter specialized in transition planning for children with special needs and served as director for several projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education, including Early Childhood Leadership Directions and Rural Links. Rosenkoetter retired from Oregon State in 2010.
Rosenkoetter earned a B.A. from Valparaiso University in 1966, an MA in special education and learning disabilities from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1971, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1991. She was a faculty member at the Associated Colleges of Central Kansas from the late 1980s until she came to Oregon State University in 1999.
The Sharon E. Rosenkoetter Papers document Rosenkoetter's research in early childhood development, especially transition planning between settings for children with special needs and leadership development to promote quality services across early childhood agencies and disciplines. The materials consist primarily of completed surveys, course materials, summarized survey data, reference materials, reports, and documentation compiled for the Oregon State University Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB materials include correspondence, blank survey forms, status reports, project outlines, and blank consent forms. Four projects are represented in the collection: Early Childhood Leadership Directions; Rural Links: An Approach to Collaborative Teacher Recruitment, Preparation, and Placement; National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC); and Story Quest.
The course materials are for HDFS 410, a practicum class for student involved in the Rural Links project. Three photographs depict Rosenkoetter with the students participating in the Rural Links project. Spanish versions of the NECTC project surveys are part of the collection.
Collection is open for research.
Sharon E. Rosenkoetter Papers (MSS Rosenkoetter), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
These materials were transferred to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center in 2013 by the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.
This collection is not fully processed; this guide is preliminary.
Materials documenting research and teaching in child development are available in the