The College of Agriculture began as one of six divisions of the Washington Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of Science in 1892. The Division of Agriculture became the Department of Agriculture in 1894 when the departmental system was organized. In 1917, that departmental system was reformed into a system of schools and colleges, one of which was the College of Agriculture. WSU's Institute of Agricultural Sciences combined Agriculture, Extension, and other departments in 1946, but was dissolved into its component departments in 1965. In 1982, Agriculture and Home Economics merged to form CAHE (College of Agriculture and Home Economics), and in 2002 CAHE became CAHNRS (College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences).
Extension work at WSU (then WSC) was authorized in 1913 by state legislation. Originally refered to as Agricultural Extension, it was renamed as Cooperative Extension in 1965 and simply as WSU Extension in 2003.
History of the state of Washington's Extension programs can be found in Russell M. Turner's The first 45 years : a history of cooperative extension in Washington State (Pullman, Wash.: [Washington State University Extension Service], 1961). and in Felix Entenmann's The next 25 years : 1960-85 : an update of the history of cooperative extension, Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.: Cooperative Extension, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University, 1989).
Administrative documents and reports from the CAHNRS Department from 1980-2006. Including administrative files, and various reports from different locations. These are primarily Dennis Brown's 'vertical files' from CAHNRS information services.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Original vertical files broken down into subject folders and are ordered chronologically.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences Information Services Vertical Files, 1980-2006 (UA2009-17)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by CAHNRS Information Services on November 12, 2009 and retained as UA2009-17.
(MASC STAFF USE) From Accession Form: "Due to the 'vertical file' nature of this it has been beavily broken up, with much being discarded, and much moved to the WSU pubs and to the Photos Subject File (PC2).
Due to the 'vertical file' nature of this accesion, it has been heavily broken up, with much being discarded, and much moved to WSU Publications and to the photos subject file (PC2) Further work still needs done along these lines.
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