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Guide to the Stanford Survey of the Behavioral Sciences Records
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Call Number: SC0856
Creator:
Stanford University
Title: Stanford Survey of the Behavioral Sciences records
Dates: 1953-1954
Physical Description:
1.75 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
[identification of item], Stanford Survey of the Behavioral Sciences Records (SC0856). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
The Ford Foundation funded surveys of the behavioral sciences at several universities in the early 1950s with the aim of extending
and improving research facilities. The topics the surveys investigated included academic and administrative structures, student
population, existing research programs, curriculum, and personnel.
Collection includes Stanford's proposal to the Ford Foundation; typescript reports by academic departments and programs, the
library, Hoover Institution, the Food Research Institute, and various committees; assorted memos, agenda, and correspondence;
the final Report of the Executive Committee and Staff, issued in July 1954; and W. Allen Wallis's report THE 1953-54 PROGRAM
OF UNIVERSITY SURVEYS OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, April 1955.
Ford Foundation
Wallis, W. Allen, (Wilson Allen), 1912-
Social sciences--Research.