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Women in higher education

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Includes works related to women in post secondary education such as colleges and universities; can include faculty, students, staff, etc.

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Pamphlets and Publications, 1922 - 1988

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 5
Scope and Contents

Series 5 contains various pamphlets, programs, and other publications that range from Schleman's time as an undergraduate student at Northwestern to the SPARs reunion in 1988.

Dates: 1922 - 1988

Purdue University School of Nursing records

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20170616.2

Research Files, 1938 - 1985

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 7
Scope and Contents

This series contains clippings, reports, notes, and other resources on topics of interest to Schleman that she researched. Most of the files cover specific topics related to women's struggle for equal rights. General subject areas include women in higher education, women in the work force, motherhood, sex roles, volunteerism, and the women's movement.

Dates: 1938 - 1985

Helen B. Schleman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334
Abstract

The Helen Schleman papers contain papers, clippings, speeches, and photographs documenting Helen Schleman’s life. The collection has particular emphases on her role as Purdue's Dean of Women and as an adovcate for women's rights.

Dates: 1920 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1980

Carolyn E. Shoemaker collection

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSF 343
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a box of memorial pamphlets, one faculty folder, Shoemaker's annotated copy of the Purdue 1926-1927 Directory, and two books owned by her: The Crescent Moon, and The Perfect Tribute.

Dates: 1933 - 1997

Speeches and Written Material, 1923 - 1979

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 3
Abstract

Series 3 contains notes and drafts of speeches, articles, pamphlets, and books that were written by or delivered by Helen Schleman over the course of her career. Most of the speeches and articles relate to women's liberation and women in higher education.

Dates: 1923 - 1979

Gertrude Sunderlin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 493
Abstract

The collection includes various work from and relating to Sunderlin’s food and nutrition students, including theses based upon experimental work, recipes, clippings of published recipes, and correspondence relating to publication.  Also included are reprints of Sunderlin’s work and clippings about her.

Dates: 1939 - 1954; Other: Date acquired: 01/05/1987

Helen Bass Williams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310
Abstract

This collection includes documents, correspondence, published materials, photographs, and audio recordings collected and created by Helen Bass Williams that document her personal life, education, and her work as a civil rights activist in the South, educator, and counselor and professor at Purdue University.

Dates: 1915 - 2004; Majority of material found within circa 1960s and 1970s

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 63
Abstract

Material either produced by the Purdue University Women’s Studies program or donated to that program from other collectors. Types of material include administrative memos and meeting records, event records, pedagogical documents, newsletters and other publications, audio-visual recordings, and clippings.

Dates: 1950 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1979 - 2013