UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Geography Records
1923-1988
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dept. of Geography. Office
of the Chairman
UWM Archival Collection 31
1 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr.
(Map)
Records, mostly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, containing
correspondence, and faculty and departmental meeting minutes concerning staffing, equipment
and space needs, and curriculum development. The collection also contains minutes of the Ad
Hoc Committee on Urban Geography, which studied the courses offered in urban geography and
the department's possible cooperation with other UWM departments in their urban projects.
Reports and correspondence in the graduate program files document the department's attempts
to establish a masters program and a doctoral program at UWM. The collection contains some
reports about the federally funded NDEA Institute for Advanced Study in Geography, which
introduced field geography to teachers of geography in grades 4-12. The Institute was held
on UWM's campus and directed by UWM faculty and staff. The only item predating 1955 is
Louise W. Mears' 1923 pamphlet, "Around Milwaukee" : Land and Lake as
a Laboratory, written while she was a geography teacher at the State Normal School
in Milwaukee.
English
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