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Montana Commission On Post-secondary Education Records, 1972-1975

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana Commission on Post-secondary Education
Title
Montana Commission On Post-secondary Education Records
Dates
1972-1975 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.5 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
RS 88 (
Summary
The Montana Commission on Post-Secondary Education was created by the 1973 Legislative Assembly to study the needs and status of post-secondary education in Montana. Records include agendas, correspondence, news releases, reports, a subject file on Montana State University (Bozeman), and public hearings statements.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The Commission on Post-Secondary Education was created by the 43rd Legislative Assembly (H.B. 578) at the request of Governor Thomas L. Judge. The Commission was charged with the responsibility of conducting a comprehensive study of all forms of post-secondary education in the state in order that the Commission could recommend ways in which post-secondary education might be, "better coordinated, improved, expanded, [and] consolidated." The Commission's study included the units of the Montana University System, as well as the state's vocational-technical centers, community colleges, independent colleges, and proprietary schools and colleges. The Commission, also known as the "Blue Ribbon Commission," was composed of thirty members headed by former Lieutenant Governor Ted James. Patrick M. Callan of Sacramento, California, was hired as staff director. The Commission appointed ten technical consulting groups (Accountability, Adult and Continuing Education, Faculty Research, Fiscal and Budgetary, Manpower Planning, Programmatic Planning, Relations between Post-Secondary Education and Secondary Education, Relations between Post-Secondary Education Unit, Student Enrollment, and Survey Research) to insure the comprehensiveness of its study. Members of the groups represented all of the facilities under study as well as private citizens. The Commission held public hearings around the state to solicit public response. The Commission produced a written report containing 127 recommendations, which was submitted by the governor to the legislature in December 1974. The Commission closed its office on March 31, 1975.

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Content Description

The records of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education consist of an agenda (1974), incoming correspondence (1973-1974); interoffice correspondence (1972-1975), including letters and memoranda between members of the commission, the staff director, chairman, and staff, as well as with Governor Thomas L. Judge and Lawrence K. Pettit, Commissioner of Higher Education; general correspondence (1972-1975). All correspondence is arranged alphabetically by subject or correspondent. The records also include news releases; reports (1973-1974, n.d.); a subject file (1973-1974) on Montana State University; and miscellany, including statements made before the Commission during the statewide public hearings. [Photographs and publications transferred to Photo Archives and Library, respectively.]

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by series.

Location of Collection

20:1-4

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information is available upon request.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • Incoming Correspondence

    • Description: "Responses to Commission recommendations"
      Dates: 1974 June - October
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: "Solicited responses: Legislators" (re Commission's work)
      Dates: 1973 August - September
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: "Solicited responses: School Superintendents and Principals" (re Commission's work)
      Dates: 1973 August - September
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: "Solicited responses: State Officers and Elected Officials" (re Commission's work)
      Dates: 1973 August - September
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: "Solicited responses: Universities, Colleges, Vo-Techs" (re Commission's work)
      Dates: 1973 August - September
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: "Solicited responses: miscellaneous" (re Commission's work)
      Dates: 1973 August - 1974 January
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6-7
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: "Unsolicited responses" (re Commission's work; includes list of correspondents)
      Dates: 1974 February - June
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: Incoming Correspondence

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: "Administration, Department of" (re inclusion of University System in the Statewide Budgeting and Accounting System: SBAS)
      Dates: 1973 November - 1974 May
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Board of Regents" (includes Board minutes)
      Dates: 1974 July
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Pat Callan"
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11-12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Dolores Colburg, Supt. of Pub. Instruction"
      Dates: 1972-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Legislature"
      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Montana Historical Society"
      Dates: 1973 September
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "[Montana] University System" (includes minutes)
      Dates: 1974 February - July
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Dr. Larry Pettit, Commissioner of Higher Education"
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Presidents & Directors of State Units" (includes responses to questionnaire)
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Presidents (Community Colleges)"
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Presidents (Private Colleges)"
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Presidents (Vo-Techs)"
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence

  • Interoffice Correspondence

    • Description: "Commission Members Correspondence"
      Dates: 1972-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22-23
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: "Executive Committee Correspondence"
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: "H.B. 578" (Larry Pettit re amendments to bill establishing Commission)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: "Memos Sent to Commission Members"
      Dates: 1973-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 26-27
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: "Replies to Questionnaire from Commission Members"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: "V.I. - Confidential" (Governor Thomas Judge and Larry Pettit re formation of Commission)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 29
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence

  • Minutes

    • Description: Commission Meeting Agenda
      Dates: June 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 30
      Location: Minutes

  • Press Releases

    • Description: "Releases"
      Dates: 1973-1974, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 31
      Location: Press Releases

  • Photographs

    • Description: List of photographs transferred to the Photo Archives
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 32
      Location: Photographs

  • Printed Material

    • Description: List of printed material transferred to the Library
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 33
      Location: Printed Material

  • Reports

    • Description: "Ideas to Result in Basic, Rational Restructuring of Our Present Mental Health Delivery System," by Cleo Butler
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 34
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Faculty Research Western Montana College," by Dr. Kenneth J. Baudelier
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 35
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Montana Post-secondary Education at the Crossroads," by Patrick M. Callan
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 36
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "A Proposal for the Formation of Post-Secondary Districts in Montana," by Vernon Kailey, president Miles Community College
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 37
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Recommendations" (of Native American Commission)
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 38
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "A Report on Research and Creative Endeavor at Eastern Montana College," by Gary Beaver, Jay Kirkpatrick, and Helen Wilson
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 39
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Research at Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology"
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 40
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Research at Montana State University," by Roy E. Huffman, vice president for research, and Gary Strobel
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 41
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Research at the University of Montana," by N.E. Taylor, vice president for research, and Paul E. Miller
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 42
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "The Role of Research at Northern Montana College"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 43
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Special summary reports for students residing in Montana who filed "Parents' Confidential Statements" or "Student's Financial Statements" for 1973-1974 academic year
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 44
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Survey Adult Education: Missoula, Great Falls, Billings"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 45
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes "The Student FTE Issue", "Financing Post-Secondary Education: an Overview", "The Federal Role in Financing Post-Secondary Education", "Continuous Statewide Planning for Post-Secondary Education"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 46
      Location: Reports

  • Subject Files

    • Description: "Montana State University"
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "H.B. 578" (an act providing for the creation of the Commission)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Montana Advisory Council for Vocational Education" (includes membership lists, minutes, etc.)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Montana School-College Relations Committee" (includes minutes, constitution)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: Subject Files

  • Hearings

    • Description: Public hearings (format)
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Billings
      Dates: 1974 January
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Bozeman
      Dates: 1974 February
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Butte
      Dates: 1974 February
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Dillon
      Dates: 1974 April
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Glasgow
      Dates: 1974 March
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Glendive
      Dates: 1974 February
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Great Falls
      Dates: 1974 April
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Havre
      Dates: 1974 March
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Helena
      Dates: 1974 March
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Kalispell
      Dates: 1974 March
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Miles City
      Dates: 1973 December
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: Missoula
      Dates: 1974 March
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 17
      Location: Hearings
    • Description: Public hearings: report, "Highlights of Alterntative Proposals Presented at Public Hearings"
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
      Location: Hearings

  • Miscellany

    • Description: "Commission Members' Resumes"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 19
      Location: Miscellany

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Subject Terms

  • Education--Montana
  • Educational planning--Montana

Finding aid prepared by MHS Staff
2004

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