1949

> The Institute for Child Study/Department of Human Development becomes an official department within the College. It confers its first master's degree to Grace Naumann of Baltimore.

> The College confers its first Doctor of Education degree (Ed.D.).

> The College offers a master's degree in Higher Education.

> UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) invites Harold R.W. Benjamin to Afghanistan to examine educational resources and provide recommendations for establishing a modern school system.

> The Shriver Laboratory Building houses the Industrial Education and Agricultural Engineering.

> The University Nursery-Kindergarten moves to Building HH, another barracks building in "The Gulch" next to its original location in Building FF.

> College of Education administers a United Nations Information Center to answer questions regarding the U.N.

> On October 31, the University offers its first courses (through the College of Special and Continuation Studies at several Overseas Centers of the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in Europe. University College remains the largest provider of education services for the United States military, serving more than 47,000 service members worldwide in one hundred locations.

> The Institute for Child Study requests and receives $35,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to establish a fellowship program to invite members of German child study institutes to visit the United States. Four fellows come in 1949 to stay for nearly a year. (Upon return to Germany, two of these fellows assume the directorship/assistant directorship of the Institut für Jugendbunde in Stuttgart).

> The Rockefeller Foundation continues to fund the Institute for Child Study. Robert J. Havighurst of the Foundation writes, "This is only the beginning of a number of substantial grants which I believe the university will receive for the Institute for Child Study under Dr. Prescott's direction. The prestige of the Institute has increased tremendously since it has been established in Maryland. It is now recognized as the great international as well as national center for training in this field."

> The Maryland House of Delegates passes a resolution on March 19, requesting that the University of Maryland establish a School of Special Education.