Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

College of Education History Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Ms-1990-026

Scope and Content Oral history interviews regarding the history of the College of Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Interviews were conducted in November-December 1989 by the students of Dr. Patrick Carlton, Associate Professor of Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Interviewees were Karl T. Hereford, first dean of the College of Education; Fred J. Brieve; Lyle Kinnear; Richard L. Lynch; Carl McDaniels; and Wayne H. Worner. Materials consist of...

Dates: 1970 - 1990

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

College of Education Restructuring Records

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2006-020

Abstract Publicly circulated e-mails, reports, and meeting handouts that served as major communications during the restructuring of Virginia Tech's College of Education. Also contains transcripts of speeches given by officials as well as some meetings, and field notes by Jan Nespor of meetings with the "task forces." Also contains materials relating to the immediate response to Virginia Tech President Paul Torgersen's decision and the early planning for the merger with the College of Human Resources....

Dates: 1979 - 1996

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Byron Nelson Cooper Papers,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1973-004

Abstract

Correspondence; writings; research records; administrative, instructional, and consulting files; and photographs of Byron Nelson Cooper, professor of geology and head of Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Department of Geological Sciences from 1946 to 1971.

Dates: 1925 - 1971

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech