Dept. of English. Dept. of English. UWM Archival Collection 127 4.6 cubic ft. Collection documents much of the routine administrative operations of the Dept. of English mainly from 1959 to 1979. Included are various committee files and on-campus correspondence documenting curriculum planning, staffing and budgeting.
Correspondence is largely on-campus.
Also includes records of Project Destiny, a 1960s program which introduced impoverished public school students to a university setting. Pre-1956 records were created by the English department chair of the Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee, and concern the merger with the University of Wisconsin Extension and routine administrative affairs. There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law. However, the researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection. English itself was offered as a Bachelor of Arts degree when the transition into Wisconsin State College occured in 1951.