Education, Higher -- Curricula
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Committee on Academic Planning Records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-RG01-011
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of records of the Committee on Academic Planning, a standing committee of the faculty, from 1972 to 1991. Records include correspondence and reports from 1972 to 1989; meeting minutes are only included for academic year 1990-1991.
Committee on Instruction Records
Collection
Identifier: LU-RG01-036
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of records created by the Committee on Instruction, a standing committee of the faculty, dating from 1933 to 2014. Records include meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports. Meeting minutes from 1993 to 2000 are missing.
Course Catalogs and Class Schedules
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: LU-RG14-001
Scope and Contents
This collection includes all course catalogs and class schedules published by Lawrence University from 1849 to the present.
Curriculum Committee Records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-RG01-010
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of records from the Curriculum Committee under the direction of President Henry Merritt Wriston from 1926 to 1933. Records include minutes, correspondence, and reports.
Curriculum Subject Files
Collection
Identifier: LU-RG04-004
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records pertaining to the curriculum at Lawrence University dating from 1912 to 1999. Records include administrative materials, budget documents, grant proposals, correspondence, reports, newspaper articles, and photographs. The majority of records document departments or programs that are now defunct, or were proposed but never established.
Found in:
Lawrence University Archives
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Curriculum Subject Files
First-Year Studies Collection
Collection
Identifier: LU-RG04-029
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials documenting the history and development of First-Year Studies (formerly Freshman Studies) a required course for first-year students at Lawrence introduced by President Nathan Pusey in the fall of 1945. Correspondence, schedules and reading lists, committee and grant documentation, and other curricular materials make up the bulk of the collection. Documentation on variations of the first-year core program offered during the 1970s is also included.
Reid Abrams and James Cowen Pacific Crest Trail Collection
Collection
Identifier: LU-MS-128
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials documenting Pacific Crest Trail expedition carried out by Reid Abrams, class of 1977, and James Cowen, class of 1976, from April to September, 1975. Abrams, a biology major, and Cowen, a geology major, hiked 2,500 miles of the trail. Materials include articles, photographs, field reports, and over 100 maps showing the route that Abrams and Cowen hiked.
Samuel Plantz letter to Sidney Richards
Digital Record
Identifier: ARC2007-182
Found in:
Lawrence University Archives
Sophomore Divisional Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: LU-RG04-012
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of curriculum records for the Sophomore Divisional Studies program at Lawrence dating from 1956-1961. Records include reports, surveys, financial documents, photographs, and correspondence.
Special Study Committee Records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-RG01-016
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of records from the Special Study Committee, a faculty committee appointed to study the curriculum at Lawrence, dating from 1952 to 1955. The work of the committee was supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Records consist of meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports (including what became known as the Troyer Report, named for the committee chair, Howard Troyer.)