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Acc0295
Leo G. Provost papers
1918-1969
1932-1969
Provost, Leo G.
9.5 linear feet
Leo G. Provost served as professor of education, head of the Department of Secondary Education (1944-1957), and assistant dean of the State College of Education (1957-1963) at the University of Utah. This collection contains both professional papers and administrative files of Leo G. Provost.
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This collection contains both professional papers and administrative files of Leo G. Provost. Included are class syllabi and lecture notes, as well as biographical material, manuscripts, and speeches on educational topics. Also included are personal and professional correspondence. The collection also contains memoranda and reports relating to the administration of the State College of Education, which became the Graduate School of Education in 1968.
In addition, the collection contains records of the Academic Year Institute (1957-1969) which was a federally-funded program to help educators improve their science background, and the Army Specialized Training Program (1942-1946) to train Army personnel in science and mathematics.
The collection is arranged alpabetically.
Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Initial Citation:
Leo G. Provost papers, Acc. 295,
Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Following Citations:Acc. 295.
Provost, Leo G.--Archives
University of Utah--Archives
University of Utah--Faculty
University of Utah. State College of Education
Academic Year Institute
Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.)
Education--Study and teaching--Utah--History--Sources
Teachers, Training of--Utah--History--Sources
Soldiers--Education, Non-military--Utah--History--Sources
Universities and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources
Colleges and Universities
Elementary and Secondary Education
Syllabi
Lecture notes
Manuscripts for publication
Speeches
Correspondence
Memorandums
Reports
1
Academic Disciplinary Action to Accreditation
1
Academic Disciplinary Action
1960-1961
(Folder 1 is restricted.)
2-3
Academic Year Institute
1957-1969
4
Academic Year Institute: Bulletins
1957-1959
5
Academic Year Institute: Evaluation
1957-1958
6
Academic Year Institute: Graduate Students
1957-1958
7-8
Academic Year Institute: Grant Proposals
1957-1962
9
Academic Year Insititute: L. E. Jenkins Dissertation on the A.Y.I.
10
Academic Year Institute: Masters Program
1957-1958
11
Academic Year Institute: Minutes and Agendas
1957-1959
12
Academic Year Institute: Newsletter
1957-1966
13
Academic Year Institute: Public Relations
1966
14
Academic Year Institute: Yearbooks
1965-1966
15
Accreditation
undated
2
Ad Hoc Planning Group to Board of Education
1
Ad Hoc Planning Group
1960
2
Address and Notebook
undated
3
Administrative Council: minutes and recommendations - L.G. Provost as member
1944-1946
4
Admissions Committee of the School of Education
5
Adult Education: Outline for a short course in
6
Advisory Council on Certification Standards - Utah State
1955
7
Amercian Association of University Professors (AAUP)
1937-1968
8
Annual Report of the School of Education
1944
1948-1950
1955-1956
1958-1960
9
Anti-Defamation League
10
Army Specialized Training Program
1942-1946
11
Assistant Dean, College of Education - Proposal for
12
Athletics
1944-1951
13
Atlantic City - Convention for Teacher Education
1948
14
Attitude in Education, notes on
15
Aviation Education
1955
16
Bachelor of Science Degree in education
17
Bennion, Milton: The Life, Philosophy and Educational Contributions of
,by Reed Holt Beckstead
1954
18
Board of Education
3
Budget to Convention on Curriculum Studies
1-2
Budget
1955-1956
1959-1963
3
Budgets: notes
1960-1961
4
Budgets: Summer School and the State College of Education
1955
5
Bureau of Educational Research
1942-1968
6
Case Study of Mary Williams
1936 December 2
(Folder 6 is restricted.)
7
Certification Requirements
1945-1965
8
Certification: 5 Year Program
1963
9
Classroom Dishonesty: A Summary Report to the Administration of the U of U - L.G. Provost
1960
10
College Promotions Committee Report
1962
11
Commencement Speech: High Schools - Provost
12
Committee on Post-War Problems and University Instruction
1943
13
Committee on the Evaluation of the Doctoral Program
1956
14
Comprehensive Examination
1940
15
Conference of Deptartment Heads and Deans
1958
16
Conference on Classroom Creativity
1962
17
Conference on Crucial Issues in Education
1960
18
Conference on Curriculum and Guidance - Stanford University
1936
19
Conference Techniques
1933
20
Continuing Education: Home Study
1965
21
Convention on Curriculum Studies for High School and College
1939
4
Correspondence
1
Jack H. Adamson (Vice President)
1964
2
Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU)
1964
3
T.H. Bell
1961
4
Leroy E. Cowles (University President 1941-1945)
1938-1944
5
G. Homer Durham (Academic Vice President)
1954-1960
6
Daniel J. Dykstra (Academic Vice President)
7
Henry Eyring (Dean, Graduate School)
8
Hodson, Paul W. (Vice President)
9
Bud Jack (Athletic Director)
10
Richard Kay (Supervisor, Idaho, Science and Mathematics)
11
David S. King (U.S. Congressman 1956-1966)
12
Neal A. Maxwell (Assistant to President)
13
Sam McLaughlin (Head, Department of Education)
14
McMurrin, Sterling M. (Dean, College of Letters and Science)
15
Neils P. Neilson
16
A. Ray Oplin (President, 1946-1964)
17
Don A. Orton (Dean)
18
George Thomas (President, 1921-1941)
19
John T. Walquist (Dean)
20
Worlton, J. T. (Salt Lake Assistant Superintendent of Schools)
21
Woodbury, Joan (Dance)
22
College of Business
23-24
General
1936-1966
25
Hobby
26
Military
1940-1946
27-28
Students
1939-1969
5
Course Descriptions and Offerings to Course Outlines
1
Course Descriptions and Offerings
2
Course Outlines: Education 13
3
Course Outlines: Education 51
4
Course Outlines: Education 100a - History of Education
5
Course Outlines: Education 100c - Famous Educators
6
Course Outlines: Education 103
7
Course Outlines: Education 104 - Secondary Education
8
Course Outlines: Secondary Education 104e - Extension
9
Course Outlines: Education 105
10
Course Outlines: Education 106
11
Course Outlines: Education 107
12
Course Outlines: Education 108
13
Course Outlines: Education 118
6
Course Outlines
1
Education 118a - Guidance
1941
2
Education 118b - Social Education
3
Education 118e - Social Education
4
Education 121R
5
Education 123R - Vocational Education
6
Education 130
7
Education 134R - Secondary Education
8
Education 136
9
Education 139c - Education in Post-War World
10
Education 141 - Education Administration
11
Education Psychology 143
12
Education 149E
13
Education 149F - Curriculum
1940-1941
14
Education 150 - Educational Supervison
7
Course Outlines
1
Education 151 - Elementary School Management
2
Education 152
3
Education Psychology 153
4
Education Psychology 155
5
Education 156
6
Education 157
1936-1937
7
Education 157 - Experimental Education
8
Education 157 - Mathematics
9
Education 157R - Davis County
10
Education 158
11
Education 160WR
12
Education 161
13
Education 163
14
Education Psychology 164
15
Education 172 and 172R
16
Education 173
17
Education 174 - Curriculum
18
Education 176e
19
Education 177
20
Education 178
21
Education 181 - Elementary School Theories and Practices
22
Education 182
23
Education 190b
24
Education 199
25
Education 204 - Secondary Education
26
Education 204-207R - Extension
27
Education 207R - Advanced High School Methods
28
Education 219 - Education Administration
8
Course Outlines to Drivers' Education
1
Course Outlines: Education 247R - Education Administration and Secondary Education
2
Course Outlines: Education 257R - Secondary Education
3
Course Outlines: Education 266R
4
Course Outlines: Education 293
5
Course Outlines: Secondary Education 298R
6
Course Outlines: Education 298 - classwork
1953
7
Course Outlines: Comprehensive Elementary Exam
1940
8
Course Outlines: Unlabeled
9
Course Work: Education 107 - A Unit on a Unit or A Play Within a Play
10
Courses: Provost's Teaching Load
11
Courses: Related Material
12
LeRoy E. Cowles: Convocation Address
1943
13
Curriculum
14
Deans' Advisory Council
15
Demographic Aspects of the Financial Crisis in the Utah Public Schools
- Paul C. Fawley
1965
16
Department Heads Meetings
1960
17
Department of Education: Education 51 Committee
18
Department of Education: Faculty
19
Department of Education: Memorandums
20
Department of Education: Newsletter
21
Department of Education: Procedures
22
Department of Education: Staff Meeting Minutes
23
Department of Education: Theatre and Ballet
24
Department of Educational Administration
25
Department of Educational Psychology
26
Department of Educational Psychology: Course Proposals
27
Discipline in the Classroom
28
Drivers' Education
9
Education to Education of Leo G. Provost
1
Education: Poetry and Philosophy
2
Education: The Russian Challenge - Sputnik
3
Education: Industrial Arts Education - Dr. H. A. Sotzin
1948
4
Education: What is Education? - Dr. H. A. Sotzin
1950
5
Education in Postwar America - pamphlets
1940-1946
6
Education in Wartime - pamphlets
7
Education of Leo G. Provost: Transcripts
8
Education of Leo G. Provost: Papers
1922-1925
9
Education of Leo G. Provost: Papers
1930-1933
10
Education of Leo G. Provost: Papers
1934-1936
11
Education of Leo G. Provost: Education 212A - Education Psychology
1931
12
Education of Leo G. Provost: Education 212B - Education Psychology
1931
13
Education of Leo G. Provost: Coursework - Education 233 - Guidance and Supervision
1933
14
Education of Leo G. Provost: Coursework - Education 240A-240B - Education Administration
15
Education of Leo G. Provost: Coursework - Education 242a-250a - School Administration
16
Education of Leo G. Provost: Education 249-250
1933-1935
17
Education of Leo G. Provost: Workbook
10
Educational Administration to Frequency of Scores
1
Educational Administration: Committee Report On Gradute Program
1949
2
Educational Administrators Conference
1951-1953
3
Educational Developement Charts
4
Educational Policies Committee
5
Elementary Education
6
Elementary School
7
Emergency Committee Of Atomic Scientists
1947
8
Endicott Confrence: Professors of Educational Administration
1947-1948
9
English - Cyprus Jr. High School
10
English Language
11
Equality of Groups
12
Extension Division - Graduate Theses
13
Faculty Club
14
Faculty Load Committee
15
Faculty Meeting Talk
1959 September 21
16
Family Life Institute
1954
17
Federal Aid to Education
18
Financial Crisis
1966
19
Foreign Language Problem in Secondary Schools
20
Frequency of Scores
11
The Governor's Committee to Important American Educators
1
The Governor's Committee to Investigate the Work of the U of U and Utah State Agricultural College
1942
2
Governor's Conference on Education
1965
3
Governor's School Study Committee
4
Graduate courses Designated "R"
5
Graduate Program
6
Graduate Program: Doctoral and Masters Exams
7
Graduate Program: Master of Education in Art Controversy
8
Graduate Questionnaires
1939
9
Graduate School Memoranda
10
Graduate School of Education
11
Graduate Students: A Sampling of Abstracts - Leo G. Provost as Chairman
12
Granite School District Workshops - Minutes
1947-1948
13
Grant Proposals
14
Guidance
15
Guidance: Check List of Guidance Practices in Secondary Schools
1937
16
Guidance: Utah Guidance Monograph
17
Haile Sellassie I University: Education Department
1963
18
Harvard Report - Paul H. Buck speech
19
HEW Grants
1964
20
High School Day
1960
21
High School Drop-outs: Follow-up Study
1953
22
Home Study
23
Illness
1955-1959
24
Important American Educators (Education 100c)
25
Important American Educators (Education 100c-Cards)
12
Inauguration of A. Ray Oplin to Lecture and Reference Cards
1
Inauguration of A. Ray Oplin: Committee on Military Participation - Provost Chair
1946
2
Inauguration of James Fletcher
1964
3
Industrial Education
4
Instructional Methods
5
International Teachers Development Program
1961-1962
6
International Teachers Education Program: "U and Us"
1953
7
International Teacher Education Program: German "I's" see "U"
1954
8
Instructor at California: Economics 140
1935
9
Journal: Asahel D. Woodruff
1973
10
Junior High School
11
Leadership: The Ideal Administrator
12
Lecture: Education and the Free Enterprise System by Robert C. Kirkwood
13
Lecture: Student Knowledge
14-16
Lecture and Reference Cards
13
Letters of Commendation to Personality Developement
1
Letters of Commendation
1937-1969
2-4
Letters of Recommendation
(Folders 2-4 are restricted.)
5
Letters To Congress
6
Library Affairs
7
Library Science and Education
8
Life to 1918: Notes (Written after suffering a stroke)
9
Louisa M. Provost
10
Manuscript: A Survey of the Stewart School Community
1944
11
Manuscript: Learning Techniques of Democracy
12
Manuscript: You're Sure You Want to Teach? - Ellis T. Demars
1956
13
Master Teacher - Teacher Competency
14
Mathematics Training
15-16
Medical School Controversy - Administrative Council
1944
17
Merit System
18
Milton Bennion Hall
19
Milton Bennion Memorial Foundation
20
National Council for Accredidation of Teacher Education
1960
21
New Media
1965
22
Nondirective Teaching
23
Panel Discussion: The Secondary School in the Present Crisis
24
Paper: An Evaluation of a Unified English Program in the Tenth Grade - Provost and Nelson
25
Paper: The Opinions of 121 Seniors Concerning Lower Division - L.G. Provost
26
Park City Meeting - College of Education
1965
27
Personal Notes
1934
28
Personality Developement
14
Phi Delta Kappa to Rickover, Vice Admiral H.G.
1
Phi Delta Kappa
2
Physics Film Project - Provost Committee Member
1957
3
Political Philosophies
4
President John F. Kennedy Special Message on Education
5
Principles of Cooperation
6
Professional Education Act - New York State Teachers' Association
1956
7
Professors Emeriti Club
8
Progressive Education Association
1938
9
Psychology
10-12
Public Administration: Bureau of P.A., Berkeley Ca. (1-8) (Used in the Army Specialized Training Program U of U 1941-1946)
13
Public Relations
14
Quality in Higher Education - John W. Gardner
15
Racism in Education
16
Radio: KDYL Program on Education - Provost as Guest.
1943 May 6
17
Radio as Means of Education
18
Reading
19
Rebellion at Berkeley
1965
20
Religion and Education
21
Report of the President: Annual Report
22
Research Grant: Desired Competencies of Master's Degree Teachers - Final (Copy)
23
Research Grant: Desired Competencies of Master's Degree Teachers - Grant Material
24
Research Grant: Desired Competencies of Master's Degree Teachers - Notes
25
Reeves, Dr. Floyd W.: Talks by
1944
26
Religion
27
Research Problems: Graduate Student Guidelines
28
Retirement
1966
29
Retirement: Work
1967-1969
30
Retirement: Emeritus Award
1969
31
Rickover, Vice Admiral H.G.
15
Salary and Job Descriptions to Speech
1
Salary and Job Descriptions - Provost
1942
2
Salary Schedules - Utah School Districts
3
San Francisco Curriculum Survey Committee Report
1960
4
Salt Lake City Spring Teachers Institute
1939
5
Scholarship Administration
6
School Administration
7
School Executives Conference
1935
8
School Finance Laws
9
School of Education Faculty Minutes
1938-1940
10
School Plant
11
Science Education
12
Science Education: Masters of Science Degree
13
Search Committee
1963
14
Secondary Education (including certification)
15
Secondary Education: Student-Teaching
16
Secondary Teacher Training: Dean Walquists Letter to Kenneth R. Doane
1946
17
Self-History
circa 1980
18
SIGMA PI Fraternity Raid
19
Small High Schools in Utah
20
Sociology Research Project - Brigham Young University
21
Space Problems
22
Special Education
23
Speech: A Family Affair by David R. Trevithick - Phi Delta Kappa Man of the Year in Education
1963
24
Speech: Democracy in Education - L.G. Provost
25
Speech: Innovations That May Affect Your Professional Career in Education - Wiscombe
1966
26
Speech: Liberal Education Provost
27
Speech: Needed Changes in Secondary Education - Leo G. Provost
1950 May
28
Speech: Remarks to the Faculty - Sterling McMurrin
1961
29
Speech: Smith, T.V. Lt. Colonel
1945
30
Speech: The Dilemma of American Education- John T. Walquist
1938 May
31
Speech: The Need for Professionalization in Education by L.G. Provost - Salt Lake City Teachers' Institute
1939
32
Speech: The Perils of Leadership - Phi Delta Kappa
1936
33
Speech: The Philosophy of the Secondary Curriculum Toward a Career in the Exact Sciences - L. G. Provost
34
Speech: What are the Adavantages and Disadvantages of Teacher Merit Rating Plans? - Dean Don. A. Orton, U of U
35
Speech: What is Democracy? - Provost
36
Speech: World War II and Education Provost
16
State College of Education to Study Skills
1
State College of Education
2
State College of Education: Catalog Records
3
State College of Education: Closed Circuit TV
4
State College of Education: Department Heads Meetings
5
State College of Education: Minutes and Agenda
6
State College of Education: Objectives and Curriculum Committee
1955-1956
7
State College of Education: Reorganization
1956
8
State Study of Former High School Students
9
State Textbook Review
1961
10
Statistical Summaries: Education
11
Stewart School
12
Stewart School: Our Community - Seventh Grade Booklet
13
Stoddard, Dr. A.J., Address at the University
14
Student and his Knowledge, The
1938
15
Student Teachers: Stewart School Suggestions
16
Student Teaching
17
Student Teaching: Cadet Personal Folder
18
Student Teaching: California Evaluation
19
Student Teachers: Evaluations
(Folder 19 is restricted.)
20
Student Teaching: University High School University of Iowa
21
Study Skills
17
Summer School to Tests
1-2
Summer School
1958-1967
3
Summer School Bulletins
4
Summer School - A Survey of Student Attitude - David M. Jabusch (Assistant Dean)
1966
5
Supervisory Teachers
6
The Teacher
7
Teacher Education: Committee on
8
Teacher Education: Documents
9
Teacher Education: Notes
10
Teacher Education and Performance (TEPS): San Diego Conference - Correspondence and Notes
1960
11
Teacher Education and Performance (TEPS): San Diego Conference - Documents
1960
12
Teacher Education and Performance (TEPS): San Diego Conference - Newsletters and Speeches
1960
13
Teacher Education and Performance (TEPS): Utah
1960
14
Teacher Education Program at University of Utah
15
Teacher Training
1940-1942
16
Teaching Minor
17
Teaching Load
18
Tests: Development and Status of Elementary School Tests
19
Tests : Specific Subject-Matter Tests
20
Tests: The Role of Tests in the Elementary School
18
Theodore Roosevelt Centennial to World War I Service
1
Theodore Roosevelt Centennial
2
Thesis Bibliography
1935
3
Thesis Research
4
George Thomas: President's Annual Address to the Faculty of the University of Utah
1934
5
Thomas, M. Ray
6
Thomas, M. Ray - Russian Tour
1957-1959
7
University Council on Educational Administration
8
University Council on Teacher Education
9
University Memoranda
10
University Policies and Procedures
11
U.S.S.R. Schools
1959
12
Utah Conference on Teacher Education
1960
13
Utah Coordinating Council of Higher Education - Form #2
1959-1960
14
Utah Creativity Conference Report
1962
15
Utah School Crisis - Pamphlet
1963
16
Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind
17
Utah Student Education Association
18
Visit to Miss Steven's Class
1938-1939
19
Visual Aids
20
Visual Education
21
Vocational Conference
1956
22
Vocational Education
23
War Bonds at the University of Utah
1943
24
War Citations
1946
25
West Point Military Academy
26
Workshop: Conference on Crucial Issues in Education
1965
27
Workshop: Conference on School Plant
1948
28
Workshop: Crucial Issues in Elementary Education
1958
29
Workshop: Educational Administrators' Conference
1948
30
Workshop: Education Seminar: The Educator and his Community
1953
31
Workshop: Institute on Crime - Delinquency and Law Enforcement
1961
32
Workshop: Institute on Occupational Information
1948
33
Workshop: Institute on Professional Relations
1946
34
Workshop: Junior High School Criteria Evaluation Workshop
1958
35
Workshop: Junior High School Principals
36
Workshop: Principals' and Supervisors'
1948
37
Workshop: Public School Finance in Utah
1959
38
World War I Service
19
Thesis and Biographical Information
1
Biographical Information, Bk 1. Thesis (Ph.D.)
1936
2
Code of Ethics for Utah Teachers
1923-1963
3
Committees to Evaluate Junior High Schools
1956
4
Criticisms on Education
1945-1959
5
Higher Education in Far Western Institutions
1945
6
Homogeneous Grouping
1935-1965
20
Improvement of Teaching to Workshop
1
Improvement of Teaching - Pamphlet
1947-1948
2
Individualization of Instruction
1935
3
National Education Association
1945-1962
4
National Science Foundation
1955-1959
5
Progressive Education - Article for Encyclopedia
1950
6
Student Teaching - Brigham Young University
1959
7
Teacher Education and Performance (TEPS)
1959-1962
8
Utah Education Association
1961-1962
9
Value of the Workbook
undated
10
Dean Asahel Woodruff - Brigham Young University
1959-1960
11
Workshop: A Suggested Work Program to Accompany the Report of the Public School Survey Commission
1953