Records of the Center for General and Career Studies (1967-1997)

The Center for General and Career Studies was set up in the early 1970s as a place for non-traditional education endeavors.  At the time,  evening classes, Saturday classes, off-campus classes, certificate programs and continuing education (hence the careers studies), were not part of OU's ethos.  However the administration saw them as a way of expanding OU’s educational offerings. The Center also was a place for the Bachelor of General Studies program, Learning Skills (freshman composition classes) and New Charter College.

The Center was an evolving entity that received mixed support from the traditional academic units. Assistant Provost Billie DeMont was appointed as Director of the Center in 1976, with responsibility over five programs: New-Charter College, the credit evening program, the Department of Learning Skills, and the Career Development and Bachelor of General Studies programs.

The records of the Center for General and Career Studies are a composite collection of materials that have been transferred to Archives over time or found in other collections in the archives. It contains administrative files, and other topical files gathered loosely in a Subject Files series.

Box 1

Administrative Files

Annual reports (some also include Learning Skills and New Charter College annual  reports) 1975-6,1976-7, 1977-8, 1978-9, 1979-80

Annual reports of the Office of Evening Programs and Spring & Summer Sessions  1973-4, 1974-5

Bylaws of the Faculty Council for General and Career Studies

Membership rosters  (see also OU Undergraduate Catalogs)

Memos, correspondence, misc. documents

Minutes of the Faculty Council for General and Career Studies

Planning

Steering Committee

 

Subject Files

Academic Policy Committee (university-wide)

Advising Committee

Assessment

Awards

Brochures, news items

Budget

Box 2

Career Studies

Community education (see also Extension programs)

Curriculum Committee

Evening programs

Extension sites and programs

Guidelines for the BGS degree

History of the Center for General and Career Studies, General Studies degree; includes a  Proposal for a School of General Studies (1967)

Newsletters

Non-traditional students

Personnel Committee

Program reviews and Self-studies

Spring and Summer classes

Student Profiles

Transfer of General Studies Degree to CAS--proposal, 1997

Box 3

Program proposals for Special Instructional Projects

Box 4

Institutes -- Special Instructional Projects  

 

 

Collection arranged and inventoried by Linda Hildebrand - updated by Dominique Daniel - 12/02/14