Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology Records, 1964-2015

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Summary

Abstract:
The collection contains materials related to the Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) and its predecessors. Most items were collected from Dean Olaf H. Tegner's office, and range in date from 1964 to 2005. Materials include advertisements, class schedules, correspondence, budgets, curriculum proposals, meeting notes, faculty files, audiovisual recordings of GSEP dinners, and other items.
Extent:
13.2 Linear Feet (12 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology records, Collection no. 0100, Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine University.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains materials created by and for the Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP), and its predecessors (the School of Education, and Division of Psychology). Most materials were collected from Dean Olaf H. Tegner's office, and items range in date from 1964 to 2005. Printed materials include flyers, brochures, class schedules, course materials, memos and correspondence, conference and lecture material, admission applications, handbooks, budgets, curriculum proposals, travel study tour brochures, committee meeting notes and minutes, questionnaires, faculty files, fieldwork forms, and other items related to GSEP degree programs and interests. Audiovisual materials include VHS and betacam tapes, primarily of GSEP dinners.

Biographical / historical:

At George Pepperdine College, Education and Psychology were initially two separate departments. In 1957, Olaf H. Tegner was named head of the Education Department, then appointed dean of the School of Education in 1970. The School of Education offered Pepperdine's first doctoral degree, the Ed.D., in 1976. After Pepperdine's Los Angeles campus closed in 1981, the School of Education merged with the Psychology Division and both moved to a business park in West Los Angeles named Pepperdine University Plaza. In 1982, the schools were renamed as the Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP).

GSEP offered the Doctor of Psychology degree for the first time in 1986. Between 1988 and 1990, GSEP added master’s degree programs in educational technology, school business administration, and clinical psychology. In 1988 GSEP was the first of Pepperdine’s schools to appoint a female dean, Dr. Nancy Magnusson Fagan. As the programs of GSEP and the School of Business and Management grew with demand from around Southern California, other campus spaces were leased in Long Beach (1990) and Westlake Village (1995).

After the success of the fundraising campaign "Challenged to Lead," the Pepperdine was able to build the Drescher Graduate Campus on Pepperine's Malibu campus. The campus was opened in August, 2003, and houses GSEP, the Graziadio School of Business and Management, and the School of Public Policy. The programs formerly held at Pepperdine University Plaza location were relocated to the Howard Hughes Center in West Los Angeles. In 2010, GSEP introduced MA degrees in school counseling and social entrepreneurship and change. Currently, GSEP programs are offered at the Drescher Graduate Campus in Malibu, the West Los Angeles graduate campus, the Encino Graduate Campus, the Irvine Graduate Campus, and the Westlake Village Graduate Campus.

Acquisition information:
Materials were gathered from University Archives files.
Processing information:

The collection was arranged and described by Jamie Henricks in March, 2013. The finding aid was updated by Kelsey Knox and Katie Richardson in May, 2015.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in the following series: 1. Printed Material; 2. Photographs; and 3. Audiovisual Material.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology records, Collection no. 0100, Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine University.

Location of this collection:
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263-4786, US
Contact:
(310) 506-4323
specialcollections@pepperdine.edu
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