RG 09. College of Arts and Sciences (Division)

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The records are arranged into seven series: Administrative Files, Curriculum Files, Historical Files, Financial Records, Programs and Special Events, Subject Files, and Publications.

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This collection consists of the records of the Oberlin College African American Studies Department. It has been divided into three record series: Administrative Files, Student Papers, and Special Events.

Scope and Contents The records of the physics department are arranged in three subgroups: General Departmental Records, Organizations and Activities, and Faculty Papers.The General Departmental Records provide information about the physics buildings and equipment, budgets, curriculum, faculty members, foundation and government grants, the planetarium, salaries, and staff meetings. Papers in this subgroup originate primarily with physics faculty members Lloyd W. Taylor, Carl E. Howe, and David L....

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The History Department Records relate to the history of the department between 1911 and 2010. The collection includes reports, agendas, correspondence, and reviews that relate to the administration of the department. It has been arranged in four record series.

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This institutional collection consists of records of the Department of English from 1922 through 1996. It has been divided into four subgroups.

Scope and Contents The records of the Department of Education, 1909(1958-1978)-1979, mainly document the department's administrative activities during its final twenty years of operation, especially its training and evaluation of student teachers. Records dating from the period prior to 1958 include one foot of correspondence files (1909-14) of Edward A. Miller (1866-1958), Professor and Head of the Department of Pedagogy (1903-07) and the first to hold the title Professor of Education (1907-31). These files...

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This collection contains records of the Oberlin College Department of Art. It has been organized into six subgroups: Administrative Files, Degree Programs, Special Programs, Non-Textual Materials, Exhibitions and Publications, and Personnel Files. Each subgroup has been further subdivided into series.

Scope and Contents The records of the Communication Studies Department contain materials from its predecessors, the Communication Department (1967-1972) and the Speech Department (1952-1967), as well as some early records from the Forensic Union, a student organization founded in 1927. Consisting of three accessions, as reported on the title page, the third accession followed the suspension of the Department in academic year 1986. The material transferred is an incomplete record of this once well known Oberlin...

Scope and Contents The records of the Oberlin College Museum, 1877-1964, include correspondence, inventories, an accession book, and a catalogue that contains information relating to the acquisition of specimens for the natural history museum. The Accession Book covers the period 1855-1949 and contains entries that include the name of the donor, date received, a description of the specimen, and the accession number. The correspondence files contain letters from individual donors. Inventory and specimen lists,...

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This collection primarily consists of institutional files related to Oberlin College's German and Russian language departments from 1913 through 1992. The records include information related to writers in residence, summer sessions, and sessions abroad. The German and Russian Department Records have been arranged in three series: Series I. Departmental Administrative Files, Series II. German Language Instructional Files, and Series III. Russian Language Instructional Files.