Konrad K. Koch, “An Administrative History of the Academic Divisions of the University of Oklahoma,” Masters Thesis, OU, 1950.
This masters thesis from 1950 is a well researched description of the administrative history of the various academic divisions here at OU (as the name would suggest). For my internship, I’m trying to find the dates when each department in the university first was permitted to offer graduate education, and when they minted their first graduate students. Koch’s thesis proves useful for the purpose. He has a list of the deans of the graduate college up to 1950 and a list of the degrees offered to that date and when they were first offered. There are a couple of ways to access this text, if you are for whatever reason interested. First you can go to the Western Histories Collections here at OU and ask to see their copy. This assumes however that they can find it; I have had trouble with them before, including with this particular text. However, the thesis is also available online through the OU Library catalog. I’m not sure you even have to be logged in to the system. I don’t know why someone scanned this fairly esoteric text, but I’m very happy they did.
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