This collection includes newspaper clippings from local newspapers that cover various subjects related to the River Falls Teachers College, including but not limited to, student activities, campus happenings, programs, faculty, and graduates. The Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by year. Clipping within the books are arranged alphabetically by a paper published. These scrapbooks were compiled by Al Boeck, Director of the Public Relations Department and Journalism Instructor.
Sans titre`The Sports Information Office is a branch of the Assistant Chancellor's office in charge of public relations for the various interscholastic sports at UWRF. The office also keeps much of the information regarding the teams, games, coaches, and related materials. This series contains news clippings, program booklets, statistical information, and miscellaneous team rosters. See the online Collection Inventory for more detailed information.
Sans titreThis series contains the general correspondence and circular letters of the Assistant Chancellor. The main duties of the Assistant Chancellor were to direct and coordinate the summer session, international study programs and to carry out special assignments at the direction of the Chancellor. Reporting to the Assistant Chancellor were college deans and graduate school. Other departments of oversight include Media Relations, Printing and Design, and the Fast Copy Center. Special assignments from the Chancellor included working on budgets for academic programs, scholarships, general admission questions, the University Press, Foundation, Alumni, minority services, and outreach programs, faculty in committee assignments, student advising, and class contacts.
Sans titreDuring the academic year of 1974-1975, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls celebrated its 100th anniversary since its founding as a Normal School in 1874. This collection contains the planning materials for that celebration. Records include but are not limited to, meeting materials, budgets, surveys, correspondence, photographs, event flyers, and 3D objects.
The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, founded in 1895, is one of six similar regionally based organizations in the United States whose purpose is the accreditation of higher educational institutions.
The bulk of the materials included in this series pertains to the initial accreditation of the River Falls State Teachers College in 1935. These include correspondence, a 1932 faculty roster, faculty records, completed schedules relating to various aspects of the school’s facilities, the Dec. 1934 application for accreditation, and a July 1935 report of inspection. Materials pertaining to later relations between the school and the NCACS are also included in the series. Among these are correspondence to 1948, miscellaneous completed schedules, 1945 faculty records, a number of printed NCACS reports and studies, and a 1962 proposal and request for accreditation of a Mater of Science degree in Teaching.
The first three boxes of this series deal with the practice reports of student teachers at the predecessor lab school located in North Hall. Boxes 4-6 contains correspondence, scrapbooks, reports, and other information concerning the lab school.
This collection documents the Future Teacher Institute program at the University of Wisconsin River Falls. The program at UWRF began as part of a larger program, the Consortium of Minorities in Teaching Careers. The consortium was comprised of nine other universities in the early nineties to increase the recruitment of ethnic minorities into the teaching profession. The program model was developed by Judson Taylor, from California State University at Domingues Hills. Dr. Taylor became the Vice Chancellor at UWRF. The program was led by José Vega, Assistant Dean. The program at UWRF sought to improve the recruitment of Native Americans into the teaching profession. Recruiters from schools in Minnesota and Wisconsin were sought to work with and recruit students that were thought to have potential and interest in the teaching profession. The Future Teacher Institute at UWRF was a two-week program where students who stayed on campus learned instructional methods the first week and the second week employed those methods by teaching elementary students that applied for the Academic Enrichment Program.
This collection is arranged into sub-series containing records of their respective programs. Consortium for Minorities in Teaching Careers, Future Teacher Institute, Academic Enrichment Program, and some records from the College of Education Teacher Education Department. This collection also contains photographs. Digital records were added as a later addition and are similarly arranged by program.
Sans titreThis series comprises the correspondence from the Student Senate to Interim President, Richard J. Delorit and Chancellor George Field.
Sans titreThis series consists of correspondence concerning the controversy emergent from the Voice’s publication of abortion advertisements, ca. 1970. Also included are Board of Student Publications’ guidelines for the Student Voice and its editor (Jan. 1971), and controversy concerning rights the University and Board of Regents may exercise concerning student publications.
Sans titreCommunications from the Board of Regents of Wisconsin State Colleges (State Universities after 1964). Material pertains to the State College-State University System. Includes reports of enrollment, allocations for construction, faculty salary increases, budgets, resolutions considered by the Board of Regents and agenda of meetings, as well as information concerning graduate programs, curriculum changes, and financial aid to students.
Sans titreThe Council of Presidents is an informal organization of the current Presidents of the old Wisconsin State Universities which although without formal policy-making powers, act as a group to influence the Board of Regents to adopt policies considered most appropriate for the welfare of the universities. In a sense, the organization has been in existence as long as the Normal School system, as communications between Presidents to effect agreements and strategy in order to influence the Board of Regents have been in existence as long as there have been presidents; the Council is still in existence today. An increased budget and building allocations, curriculum expansion, and salary increases have been among the Council’s goals over the years.
Sans titreAnnual Reports from the Schools of Agriculture, Education and Arts and Sciences (Colleges after 1962/63) to the President. Also includes annual reports from the Library, the Student Personnel Division, and the Graduate School, (1964/65-1967/68). Reports include accomplishments, activities, and recommendations.
Sans titreThe Grants Office was established in 1976. It grew out of a faculty committee. This collection contains several different types of grants, denials, lists of sabbatical leave recipients, and includes materials from the early 1970?s, before the Grants Office was a stand-alone entity on campus.
Sans titreThis series contains the undergraduate class schedules for the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Schedules include program requirements; course offerings and descriptions; and admission, registration and fee information.
Sans titreIntramural Sports have offered various recreational activities, programs, and events, for students to participate in physical competitive sports and other activities. This collection mainly consists of Handbooks, detailing activities offered and general rules. Also included, are photographs and records for intramural competitions that include team names, participants, and tournament winners.
2022 additions include a scrapbook of newspaper articles, advertisements, posters, and photographs from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
The Areopogus Society was formed in 1906 on the River Falls campus. The main purpose of the society was for the intellectual and moral advancement of its members.
In an effort to save River Falls from the fate of other teachers colleges, that of remaining small and limited, President Eugene H. Kleinpell proposed a Foundation in the 1940’s as a means of pulling the institution up by its own bootstraps. The general plan was to interest the community in building a fieldhouse for the college and the high school, so the slogan “Feed the Falcon Fieldhouse Fund” was adopted. If 5,000 former students contributed $10 a year for five years, the Foundation could reach its goal of $25,000. This first campaign proved to be disappointingly slow in obtaining results. By the end of 1950, only $13,837.10 had been received.
On September 2, 1875, The State Normal School at River Falls was formally dedicated. Part of the National Normal School Movement that began in the 1830s, in response to growing concern over the shortcomings of American common schools, specifically schools to teach teachers.
Citizens of the Village of River Falls, along with surrounding townships, began to express interest in having a Normal School in the area. In January 1870, some 1,000 voters signed a petition requesting the state legislature “to pass an enabling act allowing River Falls and surrounding communities a tax of $20,000 to contribute to the establishment of the next State Normal School to be located in River Falls. (King, James T., and Wyman, Walker D. Centennial History: The University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1874-1974. River Falls, Wis.: U of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1975)
Sans titreThis series contains several university publications and UW System publications. Bulletins include the Falcon Report, the Educational Bulletin, the Agricultural Bulletin, and the Centennial Addresses Bulletin. The university stopped issuing publications under the "Bulletin" title in the 1970's.
Sans titreThe Distinguished Teacher Award is given to one member of the faculty each year. The selection is made by the senior class, and graduates of three and five years ago. This series contains forms, letters, circular letters, and ballots used in the selection.
Sans titreThis series deals with federal aid programs for students at River Falls. Of particular interest are documents relating to the Civil Works Administration, National Youth Administration, and other New Deal programs from the Great Depression as well as rehabilitation programs for student veterans in the years following World War I.
Sans titrePrior to 1954 the University of Wisconsin – River Falls only offered an art minor designed primarily for Elementary Education Majors. This was expanded in 1954 to a dual offering: Minors in both Art and Art Education. The Art major was instituted in 1960, also in a dual role. The major was offered in Art and in Art Education. The Art major required 48 credits and Art Education totaled 60 hours. The coursework differentiation was primarily related to extra coursework in teaching art to public school-age students for the Art Education majors. In 1964 a Broad Area Art Education major was introduced for majors who preferred not to seek a minor but to strengthen their major. This course required 21 credits beyond the 60 for the Art Education majors. The Liberal Arts major, as it came to be known, remained at 48 credits. In 1969 a Broad Area Liberal Arts Program began. This degree required a minimum of 69 credits in art and was designed to give the non-education-orientated student a stronger base for professional or graduate directions in art.
This is an artificial series, constructed from several different sources, containing materials related to the University Theatre including playbills and other items from individual productions; photographs of personnel and productions; and financial records of the drama account which is the source of funds for the University Theatre. See UWRF Series 58 (St. Croix Valley Summer Theatre) for related materials.
Sans titreAccount books, 1868-1907, recording personal and farm income and expenditures of William Goodwin, Town of Trenton, Pierce County, Wisconsin.
Also included are some entries made by his father James and explanatory annotations made by his daughter, Mary Gwen Owen Swanson, in 1980. Accompanying the volumes is James Goodwin's 1865 declaration of intention to become a citizen.
Records of a cheese factory, including a letter book, 1889-1892; records of milk deliveries, cheese production, and payments, 1887-1890, 1900-1901, 1910; and a list of notes held by the company, 1886-1891.
Some records pertain to a general merchandise store also owned by the firm.
Town record book, including minutes of annual (1878-1889) and board (1878) meetings, registers of town (1878-1879) and school (1882) officers, oaths (1878-1881), order register (1878-1882), chattel mortgage record (1878-1884), school fund apportionment (1878-1884), board financial report (1879-1881), and treasurer's bonds (1878-1881).
Records of a cemetery on River Falls' north side including minute books (1876-1955), financial records, indexed records of burials and grave owners, burial permits, and plat maps.
Records of the association including a plat map, lists of lot owners and of perpetual care lots, burial permits, legal documents such as an 1863 property deed, and financial records.
The cemetery, also known as the Glass Valley Cemetery, is located in Pierce County, Wisconsin, Town of River Falls, which assumed responsibility for the cemetery ca. 1946.
Genealogy of the Guest family, 1796-1979, compiled by John Henry Guest, ca. 1979.
A paper by Gullicksrud for a university class based on his diary entries describing a two-month struggle by students with the University of Wisconsin-River Falls administration over the proposed closing of the trailer court in which they were living to make room for a new physical education building.
"Sketches of My Life and My Origin ..." by Hamilton, a pioneer settler in Bowman County, North Dakota, and a cattleman there; plus biographical sketches of Andrew Rosander and Fred Hanson, residents of the same area.
Town treasurer's accounts of receipts and disbursements for school districts and road districts showing dates, from whom received or to whom paid, for what purpose, and amounts; also town supervisors' audit reports.
Volume 1 also contains the miscellaneous financial records of a farmer, 1871-circa 1878?.
Letters nominating Healy, Donegal School, District 9, River Falls Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin, as "Wisconsin Rural Teacher of the Year" in 1961 and 1963, including a letter enclosing a history of the school; and a photograph of Healy with pupils.
Genealogy of the John Webster family of Ipswich, Mass., 1634-1929, compiled by Helman in 1929, and a second Webster genealogy, 1667-1953, compiled in 1958 by Grace Webster. Webster was apparently the compiler of two related genealogies which are also included: "Descendants of Hugh and Martha Currie," 1832-1955; and information regarding the John Turnbull family, 1783-1956.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1841-1908, 1925, and financial records, 1861-1897, of John Hoffmann, Ellsworth, Wisconsin, who had emigrated from Germany in 1846 and first settled in Pennsylvania; with some ephemera.
Reminiscences of Holt, a Pierce County farmer from 1859 on and a founder of Ono, Wisconsin.
Manuscript draft of the standing rules of the Common Council of the City of Hudson which was incorporated as a fourth class city in 1856.
Poll lists listing name and address of voters in order of voting. Other information includes whether the voter was born in the U.S. and if not whether 2nd (naturalization) papers have been taken out.