1948

> Edna McNaughton founds the University Nursery/Kindergarten in October. Among the students enrolled in McNaughton's Child Development classes are the wives of returning GI's . Twelve children are housed in Building FF, one of the temporary barracks buildings in "The Gulch." This is near Caroline Hall.

> Early in 1948, the College of Education moves from McDonnell Hall back to its original location in the Agriculture Building (Skinner Building) . The College shares facilities and space with the Graduate School, the College of Special and Continuation Studies, and Bacteriology.

> Harold R.W. Benjamin appoints an administrative committee on doctoral programs in education.

> Daniel Prescott initiates and directs a six-week summer program, the Workshop on Child Development and Education. The full-time program trains group leaders for in-service Child Study programs and educated them in the implications of human development principles on curricula, guidance, and school organization. The College also offers a master's degree in Human Growth and Development.

> A Workshop for Child Study, led by Daniel Prescott, is held for African-American graduate students at Bowie State Teachers College.

> Harold Benjamin hires Mary Annette French (later Kemble) to organize a Music Education curriculum jointly with the College of Arts and Sciences.

> Forty-five teachers from war-torn countries in Europe and Asia attend a seminar on international relations at the University.

> The Faculty of the College of Education establishes policies for the two doctoral degrees offered by the College, the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Doctor of Education (Ed.D). Degrees are offered in the areas of Adult Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Educational Administration and Supervision; Elementary Education; Guidance and Personnel; Health and Physical Education; Higher Education; History, Philosophy and Comparative Education; Home Economics Education; Human Growth and Development; Industrial Arts Education; Nursery School Education; Research Principles and Techniques; Secondary Education; and Vocational-Industrial Education.

> The Rockefeller Foundation awards a grant to the Institute for Child Study to invite a visiting scholar from the Institute for Child Study and Human Development in Stuttgart, Germany.

> Michael J. Shortley, Director of the Federal Security Agency's Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, writes to President Byrd about establishing a program in Vocational Rehabilitation at the University of Maryland. This program would train vocational counselors and placement workers in aiding disabled workers, particularly returning war veterans, in finding employment. Harold Benjamin proposes that Glen Brown set up a curriculum for this program.

> The College begins to offer master's degrees in Business Education, Secondary School Curriculum and Teaching, Core, English, Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and in History, Philosophy, and Comparative Education.