1959

> Joseph Alexander Wiseman , the husband of Rose Shockley Wiseman, receives his Doctor of Education degree. He is the first African-American doctoral graduate in the College of Education and at the College Park campus.

> Vernon Anderson appoints chairs for Elementary and Secondary Education and to head the graduate program.

> The Special Education program offers its first courses during the 1958-1959 academic year.

> Edna McNaughton, 70 , founder of the University Nursery/Kindergarten and pioneer in the field of early childhood education, dies on June 5.

> The Grant Foundation notifies Daniel Prescott that it will end funding for the Institute for Child Study beginning June 30, 1961. However, the Grant Foundation continues to fund some programs of the Institute through September 1963.

> The College of Special and Continuation Studies, in which many education courses are offered, is renamed University College.

> The College of Education and University College offer an education course in Elementary Spanish on television (WTOP Washington and WMAR Baltimore). (This is the earliest found instance of television being used by the College for teaching a course).

> The College approves new undergraduate and doctoral major programs in Higher Education.

> The College receives funding from the National Defense of Education Act, which was passed by Congress to strengthen math and science education.

> The Faculty Senate approves a Professional Degree Program geared towards professional development of public school teachers.

> The College offers two summer workshops in Special Education. The first session held on June 22 to July 10 is on the Education of Children with Learning Impairments. It focuses on the teaching of children with reading and learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, and impairments in language development. A second session on July 13-31 focuses on gifted and talented children.

> The Human Development Department offers summer workshops. The Institute for Child Study offers its annual six-week human development workshop (June 22-July 31), including two shorter two-week workshops for child study leaders. Human Development also sponsors an administrators' conference July 6-17 on the implications of human development principles in school operation. A workshop on applications of human development principles in classrooms is held from July 6-17 for teachers with three or more years of child study experience.

> The College collaborates with the Colleges of Home Economics and Business and Public Administration and with the National Committee for Education in Family Finance to offer a six-week course to train teachers on improving instruction in personal and family money management.

> A summer curriculum workshop in industrial arts is held on campus.

> The College sponsors a summer lecture series on the "Problems and Trends in Contemporary American Education."

> The College holds a number of summer workshops for teachers. One aids kindergarten through grade 12 teachers in utilizing community resources, such as the Smithsonian Institution, in their curricula. The College also sponsors four-week workshop on teaching elementary school science, reading instruction, teaching elementary school science, and Supervision of Student Teachers.