ORU_Bx006.xml Guide to the Register-Guard Records on Higher Education Consolidation 1932-1933 Register-Guard records on higher education consolidation Tanya Parlet. Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2013
1299 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1299 spcarref@uoregon.edu http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-22. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
1299 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1299 spcarref@uoregon.edu http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll
Register-Guard records on higher education consolidation Tugman, William M. (William Masten), 1893-1961 Eugene Register-Guard Kerr, William Jasper, 1863-1947 Hall, Arnold Bennett, 1881-1936 Bx 006 1.5 linear feet 1 container and 1 volume 1 manuscript box and 1 loose volume 1932-1933 The bid to consolidate higher education in Oregon began with the the Zorn-MacPherson School Moving Bill of 1932. The collection (1932-1934) contains research files, and a scrapbook of the Register Guard Eugene newspaper regarding arguments and statistics surrounding the consolidation attempt. English . 1 1

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The Register-Guard began as the Eugene Guard newspaper, based in Eugene, Oregon.

The initiative to consolidate higher education in Oregon began with "the Zorn-MacPherson School Moving Bill (official title: Bill Moving University, Normal and Law Schools. Establishing Junior Colleges). [The bill] was an initiative petition on the November 1932 general election ballot [in Oregon]."

"The bill provided for the consolidation of the University of Oregon and Oregon State College at the Corvallis campus to form the Oregon State University; moving of the normal schools from Monmouth, Ashland, and LaGrande to the campus in Eugene; moving the law school from Eugene to Salem; closing of the normal school at Monmouth; and creation of junior colleges at Ashland and LaGrande."

"The Zorn-Macpherson initiative petition campaign was the largest and most expensive in Oregon educational history up to that time. The bill was resoundingly defeated by a vote of more than 6 to 1."

[Source: Finding aid for the Zorn-Macpherson Bill Collection, 1926-1932, Oregon State University]

Research files include statements, reports, opinions, and arguments from administrators and faculty of both Oregon State College and University of Oregon, and other interested persons, as well as correspondence, budget and statistic reports, and newspaper clippings.

Research subjects include faculty salary, budgets, science and business school issues, cost comparisons, graduate school, savings, O.S.C ratings, living conditions, and statistics.

There are also correspondence files of A. B. Hall, and William Jasper Kerr (who was President of Oregon State College at the time).

The collection also contains a scrapbook of opinion and article clippings regarding the issues involved in the consolidation attempt. The scrapbook may have been created by William M. "Bill" Tugman, the long-standing editor of the Register-Guard newspaper.

Guide to the Register-Guard Records on Higher Education Consolidation

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