Title: Graduate School of Education & Information Studies School Management Program Resource Historians Files

Date (inclusive): 1990-

Record Series number: 678

Creator: University of California, Los Angeles.

Extent: 10 boxes.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections. University Archives.

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections, University Archives Reference Desk for paging information.

The Graduate School of Education an Information Studies traces its beginning to the legislative act of 3 March 1881 which authorized the opening of a branch of the San Jose State Normal School in Los Angeles. Teacher training was the primary responsibility of the "southern branch" and in 1894, the Department of Education was established. In 1917, three years after the Los Angeles State Normal School was moved to its Vermont Avenue site, Ernest Carroll Moore was appointed director of the school and chairman of the Education Department. In 1919, when the Los Angeles State Normal School was incorporated into the University of California system, Moore was appointed director of the Los Angeles campus and Dean of the Teachers College, holding the latter position until 1936 when the deanship passed to Marvin L. Darsie. The Teachers College was replaced by the School of Education in 1939, which was eventually named the Graduate School of Education. Other deans have included: Edwin A. Lee, Howard E. Wilson, and Lewis C. Solomon.

The contents for much of the UCLA School Management Program Literacy Links Academy binder can be found here: