James Enoch Papers

Dr. Enochs was the first Dean of Academic Planning for the California State Colleges. As the state colleges began to move from being purely teacher's colleges to becoming a part of an integrated Master Plan covering all of higher education in California, the changes in and development of new curricula assumed importance. The files in this series illuminate some of the decision-making involved in this redefinition of curricular goals. Many of the files come from the decade before the Donohoe Act, which organized the CSUC System in 1960-61, but a significant section of the papers also cover the creation of graduate programs, including the joint doctorate programs.

Enochs was interviewed by Professor Grenier in the first series of the CSU Oral History Project. The interview specifically mentions papers donated to the Archives relating to a report entitled, "Standards and Criteria for Occupational Master's Degrees." These materials are not in the files presently designated as the Enochs Papers. Also mentioned are accomplishments of Dr. Enochs in helping to develop changes in curricula concerning Nursing Education, Social Work Programs, Engineering Education and Agricultural Education. Records involving the development of these programs are included in this record series.

Enochs was on the Master Plan Committee until 1962, when he went back to administration at the college level at CSU Sonoma. The records indicate he was frequently called in thereafter to serve on committees dealing with system-wide curriculum development issues.