Iowa State University. Graduate College records

Record Group — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RS 6/3

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The collection includes materials related to the Graduate College. Records include brochures, pre-classification notices, memoranda to faculty, handbooks, oral examination schedules, thesis manuals, publications, committee reports, subject files, biographical files, graduate faculty minutes, graduate committees, enrollment and classification statistics, Rockefeller Foundation fluid research records, Iowa State Journal of Research Records, and graduate curriculum committee records.

Dates

1897-2013

Creator

Iowa State University. Graduate College (Organization)

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

Open for research.

Use/Re-use Restrictions

Consult Special Collections and University Archives

Biography/Profile

The Graduate College is responsible for the quality of graduate education, for administering students' graduate programs by means of individual advisory committees and for promoting research support from various governmental, industrial and private agencies. The graduate faculty consists of the President, the Dean of the Graduate College, the Provost, the deans of the Colleges, the dean of Library Services, the dean of Admissions and Records, heads of the departments offering graduate work and members of the faculty who are elected to membership in recognition of accomplishments in their respective disciplines. Graduate study was offered almost as soon as the University was founded, and the first graduate degree was conferred in 1877. In 1913, a distinct graduate faculty was organized and an executive graduate committee was appointed. In 1915, the graduate faculty held its first meeting and in 1916 it granted the first Ph.D. In 1971, the Dean of the Graduate College, J. Boyd Page, also assumed the title of Vice President for Research. The offices finally split in 2004 when the Dean of the Graduate College was given the title of Associate Provost for Academic Programs.

Deans:

Raymond A. Pearson	(1913-1919)

		Robert E. Buchanan	(1919-1948)

		R.M. Hixon		(1948-1960)

		J. Boyd Page		(1960-1970)

		Kenneth J. Frey		(1970-1971)	Interim

		Daniel Zaffarano	(1971-1988)

		Patricia B. Swan	(1989-1991)

		John M. Dobson	(1991-1992)	Interim

		Patricia B. Swan	(1992-1999)

		James Bloedel		(2000-2004)

		David Holger		(2004-2017)

		Bill Graves		(2017- )

Extent

15.12 Linear Feet (31 document boxes and 10 half-document boxes)

Additional Description

Items in related collections

RS 6/3/11. Robert Earle Buchanan papers, 1901-1999, undated RS 6/3/12. Ralph M. Hixon papers, 1917-1978, undated RS 6/3/51. George G. Karas papers, 1960-1995