California State Department of Education, 1932 - 1967

This collection contains meeting minutes, agendas and other materials from the Department of Education and its governing body, the Board of Education, which governed the California State Colleges (formerly California Teachers Colleges) prior to the creation of the Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960. Included are meeting minutes and reports of the California State Board of Education (1957-1961), annual reports of the State Colleges (1946-1957), Governor’s Council Reports (1948-1959), State College Council materials (1952), and State College Business Managers materials(1954-1963); as well as statistical reports (1949-1967), circular letters (1947-1961), State College Presidents Meetings (1932-1961), reports from the Joint Committee on the Public Education System and the Citizens Advisory Council (1958-1960), other miscellaneous reports, correspondence, meeting materials from the Conference of Deans (1953-1961), miscellaneous conference materials (1953-1961), departmental and organizational files (1943-1961), legal opinions (1949-1959), and miscellaneous meeting materials (1951; 1957-1958).