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AFT Local 1295: Wayne State University Federation of Teachers Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000688
Abstract
Serving employees of Wayne State University, this local was originally established as a branch of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. The collection contains minutes, reports, and some correspondence. The subjects deal with internal union organization and activities.
Dates:
1957 - 1974
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
American Federation of Teachers Research Department: Contracts
Collection
Identifier: LR002886
Abstract
The Research Department of the American Federation of Teachers is one of the oldest departments of within the AFT and this particular collection contains collective bargaining contracts negotiated by AFT affiliates and from the NEA, AAUP and other unions that represent teachers in K-16, paraprofessionals, nurses and public employees.
Dates:
1956 - 2014
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr. J. William Rioux Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002119
Abstract
J. William Rioux was the president of the Merrill-Palmer Institute from 1967-1973, prior
to which he worked for the U.S. Department of Education. He was a native of Detroit
and received his Ed. D. at Wayne State University. During his time at Merrill-Palmer he
worked to diversify the student body, establish a graduate degree program, work with
urban youth, and bring more students into the program. He also emphasized
dissemination and publication of research by Merrill-Palmer faculty and...
Dates:
1960 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1973
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr. Michael D. Usdan Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002122
Abstract
Dr. Michael D. Usdan was president of the Merrill-Palmer Institute from 1974-1977.
Educated at Brown University and Teachers College at Columbia University, Usdan
worked as a professor at City University of New York before joining Merrill-Palmer. He
published widely, writing mainly on educational politics. His records document his work
on urban and lower income youth in the Detroit area, as well as research and conferences
focusing on urban poor, parent-child relationships and the impact of...
Dates:
1973 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1978
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr. Pauline Park Wilson Knapp Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002120
Abstract
Dr. Pauline Park Wilson Knapp was the president and director of the Merrill-Palmer
Institute from 1952-1967. Knapp received her B.S. in Home Economics from the
University of Kentucky and M.A. and Ph. D in Psychology from Columbia University.
She established the first Child Development Center in Georgia in 1928, was head of the
Department of Family and Life at the University of Alabama from 1941-45 and the Dean
of the School of Home Economics at the University of Georgia from 1946-52. In...
Dates:
1950 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1967
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr.William McKee Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002121
Abstract
Dr. William Wakefield McKee was with the Merrill-Palmer Institute for 30 years in a variety of roles. He began as a faculty member in 1953, became Vice-President in 1957 and served as Acting-President during the 1973-73 school year, eventually retiring in 1983. McKee received his B. A. from the University of North Carolina, his B. D. from Yale Divinity School, a S. T. M. from Union Theological Seminary, NY, and his Ph. D. from Yale. Prior to coming to Merrill-Palmer he worked for the YMCA, the...
Dates:
1952 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1976
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Merrill-Palmer Institute Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002127
Abstract
The Merrill-Palmer Institute was founded in 1920 by an endowment from Lizzie Merrill Palmer. Throughout its 61years of independent operation, the Institute was greatly respected and internationally known as one of the top institutions for education, training and research in Child Development. Merrill-Palmer staff conducted and published studies on families and children, operated a nursery school, children’s camps and clubs, offered marriage and family counseling, and performed community service...
Dates:
1920 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1973
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Robert Nielsen Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001828
Abstract
Dr. Robert M. Nielsen was born in Nebraska in 1933. Dr. Nielsen became a professor of mathematics at the University of Delaware. In the late 1960s he was the co-founder of the AFT local for faculty at the university and was president from 1969-1973.
In 1973 Nielsen became director of the AFT’s colleges and universities department in which he took both aspects of academic professionalism and union professionalism into creating a strong and viable department within the AFT. Dr. Nielsen was...
Dates:
1967 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1983
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Wayne State University Department of English Records
Collection
Identifier: WSR000451
Abstract
These records of the WSU English Department represent material accrued in three accession dates: 1978, 1979, and 1988. The arrangement of folders reflects these different accessions, so that similar subjects may appear in multiple places in the collection.
The records include deliberations of major committees on policy, personnel and curriculum, as well as student requirements and activities on the undergraduate and graduate level. With these records, researchers could track changes in...
Dates:
1924 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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