Records of the department include correspondence, staff meeting minutes, accreditation
reports, program reviews, and miscellaneous information on lectures, undergraduate, and
graduate degrees. Also included are planning documents for the department heading into the
21st century. The correspondence files (1956-1976) largely consist of letters between the
dean and associate dean of the College of Letters & Science and the chair of the
Department of Psychology, regarding budget concerns, the developments of undergraduate and
graduate degrees, staffing, curricula, and department location. The collection also contains
materials on the teaching of psychology at County Teacher Colleges of Wisconsin, and a file
on a survey course given on the WMVS television station. Also included are the minutes and
correspondence of the Joint Department Conference Committee of the Psychology Departments of
Madison and Milwaukee (1956-1963).
The most recent addition to the collection primarily comprises accreditation documentation
from the 1970s-1990s, including site visit and self-study reports. Also included are records
of the department's clinical psychology program, including training manuals for students in
the clinical psychology program.
