Records of the Dean of the College
Scope and Content
Records of the Dean of the College dating from 1938 to 1973. Includes files on Academic Council, the academic departments and their curriculums, graduate programs, college administration, admissions, alumnae, annual reports made to the President, budgets, college events, the Commission on the Future of the College, various committees, the Continuing Education program, and the exchange program with MIT, the honors program, questionnaires, statistics, various subject files.
Dates
- Creation: 1938-1973
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1965 - 1973
Access
The following types of materials are restricted:
1. Student records generated and maintained by the college cover by FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act): grades, work, faculty/class evaluations, questionnaires, recommendations, et cetera.
2. Minutes and other records of the Board of Trustees. Access to this material is granted only through the Trustees. Requests for access should be directed to the Clerk of the Board of Trustees.
3. Information relating to specific salaries, pensions or financial transactions between the College and individual employees.
4. Materials relating to reappointment, promotion and tenure are restricted.
5. Recommendations and performance evaluation of individual employees are restricted, as are evaluations of candidates for College positions.
6. Materials published by consortia of colleges and universities, specifically the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) and the Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS), which conduct surveys of various institutes promising confidentially.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright in some papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright publishing quotations from any material in the collection.
History of the Office
Margaret E. Stratton, Dean, 1895-1899
Katharine Coman, Dean, 1899-1900
(no Dean appointed), 1900-1901
Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Dean, 1901-1911
Angie Clara Chapin, Dean, 1911-1913
Alice Vinton Waite, Dean, 1913-1931
Mary Lowell Coolidge, Dean, 1931-1938
Lucy Wilson, Acting Dean, 1938-1939
Ella Keats Whiting, Dean of Instruction, 1939-1954
Ella Keats Whiting, Dean, 1954-1961
Laura Bornholt, Acting Dean, 1961-1962
Laura Bornholt, Dean, 1962-1963
Virginia Onderdonk, Acting Dean of the Faculty, 1963-1964
Virginia Onderdonk, Dean, 1964-1968
Phyllis Fleming, Dean, 1968-1972
Robert Garis, Acting Dean, 1972-1973
Extent
16.8 Linear Feet ( 42 file boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The records are arranged alphabetically by subject. Where there is more than one folder on the same subject, they are arranged chronologically. Restricted materials have been removed from the main sequence.
- Title
- Wellesley College. Office of the Dean of the College. Records of the Dean of the College, 1938-1973: a guide.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Wellesley College Archives Repository