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School of Social Sciences records (University of California, Irvine)
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  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Processing History
  • Organizational History
  • School of Social Sciences Chronology
  • Collection Scope and Content Summary
  • Collection Arrangement
  • Separation Note
  • Related Collections

  • Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
    Title: University of California, Irvine, School of Social Sciences records
    Creator: University of California, Irvine. School of Social Sciences
    Identifier/Call Number: AS.074
    Physical Description: 49 Linear Feet (48 records cartons, 2 document boxes, and 1 floppy disk)
    Date (inclusive): 1972-2012
    Abstract: This collection comprises the administrative records of the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences. The majority of the records come from the dean's office, specifically from the tenures of dean William Schonfeld, 1982-2002, and dean Barbara Dosher, 2002-2013. The records include correspondence sent and received by dean Schonfeld, dean Dosher, and other administrators; documentation on the departments, programs, and centers within the school, including information about the faculty, undergraduate and graduate programs, committees, scholarships and fellowships, and teaching; documentation on how the school worked with other campus units within UC Irvine, such as the Executive Vice-Provost's Office and academic units; administrative files of the school; and photographs.
    Language of Material: English .

    Access

    This collection is open for research. Access to original born digital material is restricted; researchers may request viewing copies.

    Publication Rights

    Property rights reside with the University of California. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact the University Archivist.

    Preferred Citation

    University of California, Irvine, School of Social Sciences records. AS-074. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
    For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

    Acquisition Information

    Transferred from the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences, 2001, 2009, and 2019.

    Processing History

    Processed by Laura Uglean Jackson, 2016 and Sarah Glover, 2019.

    Organizational History

    The School of Social Sciences began as the Division of Social Sciences when the University of California, Irvine (UCI) was founded in 1965. Its first dean, James G. March, was appointed in 1964. He created an interdisciplinary program free of individual departments, enabling faculty to pursue scholarly interests beyond the constraints of departmental borders. Dean March referred to his program as the "New Social Science," a mathematically oriented discipline that involved systematic observation, interpretation, and quantitative analysis of human behavior. While many students worked toward a degree in social science, they also had the option of majoring in traditional social science disciplines: anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology. The innovative structure of the school set it apart from other programs. It attracted many notable scholars, many of whom became members of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among these were David Easton, Harry Eckstein, R. Duncan Luce, William Schonfeld, and A. Kimball Romney. While dean March favored a non-departmental structure for the school, dean William Schonfeld, who took office in 1982, found that the lack of departments was not practical for the growing school. The success of the early non-departmental structure of the school is attributed to its relatively small size and to the fact that the separate social science disciplines were passing through a revolutionary period during which their traditional boundaries and methodologies were being challenged. Increasing enrollments and other considerations prompted dean Schonfeld to establish traditional departments for the school. As of 2019, the School of Social Sciences was home to eight departments, including Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Chicano and Latino Studies, Economics, Global and International Sciences, Language Science, Logic and the Philosophy of Science, Political Science, and Sociology.

    School of Social Sciences Chronology

    1964 James G. March is appointed Dean of Social Sciences.
    1965 University of California, Irvine opens.
    1968 Division of Social Sciences becomes School of Social Sciences.
    1969 A. Kimball Romney is appointed as Dean of Social Sciences.
    1970 Farm School, an independent alternative pre-school and elementary school, is founded on campus by members of the Social Sciences faculty.
    1971 Lewis A. (Creel) Froman is appointed Dean of Social Sciences.
    1974 Christian Werner is appointed Dean of Social Sciences.
    1979 Linton Freeman is appointed Dean of Social Sciences.
    1982 William R. Schonfeld is appointed Dean of Social Sciences and begins process of establishing departments in the school.
    1988 Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences is established.
    1989 First academic departments are formed.
    1990 UCI Focused Research Program is started; its name is later changed to Center for Study of Democracy.
    1992 Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences replaces Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences.
    1994 Department of Linguistics moves from School of Humanities to School of Social Sciences.
    1995 National Science Foundation selects UCI to establish the Graduate Research Traineeship on Democratization and Democratic Politics.
    2000 Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science is established.
    2001 Department of Political Science is ranked 29th by U.S. News and World Report.
    2002 Dean William Schonfeld receives Lauds and Laurels Extraordinarius Award.
      Barbara Dosher is appointed Dean of Social Sciences.
    2003 Professor Kristen Monroe establishes Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality.
    2007 Farm School becomes a 501c3 corporation and moves from the UCI campus to Aliso Viejo.
      Chicano / Latino Studies program becomes a department of the School of Social Sciences.
    2013 William M. "Bill" Maurer is appointed Dean of the School of Social Sciences.

    Collection Scope and Content Summary

    This collection comprises the records of the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences. The majority of the records come from the dean's Office, specifically from the tenures of dean William Schonfeld, 1982-2002, and dean Barbara Dosher, 2002-2013. The records include correspondence sent and received by dean Schonfeld, dean Dosher, and other administrators; documentation on the departments, programs, and centers within the school, including information about the faculty, undergraduate and graduate programs, committees, scholarships and fellowships, and teaching; documentation on how the school worked with other campus units within UC Irvine, such as the Executive Vice-Provost's Office and academic units; administrative files of the school; and photographs.

    Collection Arrangement

    1. Chron files, Schonfeld, 1984-1999.
    2. Department files, 1973-2003.
    3. Campus units, 1975-2002.
    4. Administrative files, 1972-2002.
    5. Photographs, undated and 2000.
    6. Addition 2019, 1978-2012.

    Separation Note

    Approximately 11.5 linear feet of material was separated from this collection during processing. The separated records had restricted information related to personnel issues, tenure and promotion, and students. It was disposed of per the UC Retention Schedule.

    Related Collections

    Related materials are found in the following collection:
    University of California, Irvine. School of Social Sciences publications. PS-073. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8c60352q  

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Education, Higher -- Administration
    Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California -- Irvine
    University of California, Irvine. Program in Comparative Culture
    University of California, Irvine. Department of Anthropology
    University of California, Irvine. Department of Cognitive Sciences
    University of California, Irvine. Department of Economics
    University of California, Irvine. Department of Linguistics
    Schonfeld, William R.
    Dosher, Barbara, 1951-