Finding Aid for Mississippi Valley Industrial Teacher Education Conference Papers, 1909-2013 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Mississippi Valley Industrial Teacher Education Conference Papers, 1909-2013

ID: 10/9/50

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Department of Vocational and Technical Education

Extent: 8.3 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological

Subjects: Industrial Arts, Manual Arts, Mississippi Valley Industrial Arts Conference

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Mississippi Valley Industrial Arts Conference Papers including correspondence, programs, reprots, resolutions, membership lists, regarding annual Manual Arts Conferences (1909-1929, 1966-94), photocopies of correspondence, programs, studies, directories, outlines, circulars, resolutions and reports relating to the Manual Arts Conferences (1909-40), some of which duplicate and supplement the material in the folders, and 21 bound volumes of annual reports and mimeographed outlines of the discussions of the Manual Arts Conferences (1921-40) and program bulletins, reports, and other memoranda of the Mississippi Valley Industrial Arts Conferences (1934-1941, 1946-1994). The series includes correspondence, programs, membership lists, members vitae, circulars, reports, photographs and memoranda (1951, 1961-1995). In 1973 the Mississippi Valley Industrial Arts Conference became the Mississippi Valley Industrial Teadcher Education Conference (MVITEC). The series also includes draft chapter by Rupert Evans for ACIATE Yearbook ("The Mississippi Valley Conference"), 1977, two copies of Industrial Teacher Education in Transition, 1988, and one copy of Industrial Arts in Modern Education, 1934.

Established in 1962 as one of seven departments in the newly organized College of Education, the Vocational and Technical Education Department consists of the Agricultural Division, Business Education Division, Home Economics Division and the Industrial Arts Division. The Department is primarily concerned with teaching, educational research and public service programs.¹

This unit covers:

--Business Education Department:

The Department was established in the College of Commerce and Business Administration as a result of the reorganization of the Department of Business Organization and Operation on September 1, 1953.² The Department offered programs leading to the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Commercial Teaching. In 1967, the work of this Department was transferred to the College of Education.

--Rurban Educational Development Laboratory (1968).

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 52nd Report, October 17, 1962, p. 181.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 47th Report, May 23, 1953, pp. 646-47.

Industrial Arts
Manual Arts
Mississippi Valley Industrial Arts Conference

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 2/22/72; 1/5/81; 12/13/91; 1/8/95; 7/18/96

Other Note: 4 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1009050.pdf

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