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College Student Services Administration (CSSA) Program Records, 1950-2014

By Finding aid prepared by Helena Egbert, Elizabeth Nielsen, and Tama Bolton.

Collection Overview

Title: College Student Services Administration (CSSA) Program Records, 1950-2014

Predominant Dates: 1972-2002

ID: RG 233

Primary Creator: Oregon State University. College Student Services Administration Program

Extent: 2.5 cubic feet. More info below.

Arrangement: The College Student Services Administration (CSSA) Program Records are arranged in 7 series: 1. Publications, 1969-2002; 2. Correspondence, 1968-2010; 3. Program Evaluations and Reviews, 1965-2004; 4. Subject Files, 1950-2014; 5. Course Materials, 1987-1990; 6. Photographs, circa 1970 -2002; and 7. Scrapbooks and Photograph Albums, 1973-1993

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

Abstract

The College Student Services Administration (CSSA) Program Records document the development and administration of the CSSA graduate program at Oregon State University.  The CSSA program is a graduate program that was founded in 1966. The curriculum has emphasized administrative leadership and management of student programs and services for two- and four-year colleges and universities.

Reference access to the born-digital materials in Series 4 is available upon patron request.

Scope and Content Notes

The College Student Services Administration (CSSA) Program Records document the development and administration of the CSSA graduate program for student services professionals in colleges and universities.  The collection provides extensive information about  the directors of the program through 2002, faculty and staff affiliated with the program, students and alumni, the curriculum of the graduate program, and the types of work experiences that CSSA students obtained at Oregon State University.

The records include publications, graduate program reviews; course materials, subject files, photographs, photograph albums, and scrapbooks.

Due to the overlap of faculty and staff between the CSSA graduate program and the Office of Student Services and Office of the Dean of Students, the records include substantive documentation of those offices -- especially photographs of faculty and staff and special events.  Numerous photographs of J. Roger Penn, Jo Anne Trow, Nancy Vanderpool, and Judy Brazee are part of the collection.

Reference access to born digital records are available upon patron request.

Biographical / Historical Notes

Dr. Robert W. Chick, an administrator who had significant student affairs experience at the University of Missouri, University of Denver, and Washington State University, founded the College Student Services Administration (CSSA) program at Oregon State University in 1966. As the first Dean of Students and later the Vice President for Student Affairs at Oregon State University, Dr. Chick built an outstanding program of coordinated student services within the OSU community.

Dr. Chick provided leadership in bringing together student affairs professionals throughout Oregon and the Northwest to share ideas and discuss relevant issues in the field. From this, he recognized the need for a professional training and degree program in the region. In 1966, the State Board of Higher Education in Oregon approved the offering of Ed.D., Ph.D., Ed.M., and the M.S. degrees through the CSSA graduate programs at Oregon State University. Dr. Chick's mentorship of CSSA graduate students and of Oregon State University student affairs professionals has left a lasting legacy.

The College Student Services Administration program’s primary mission has been to prepare individuals for professional administrative positions in student services departments at two- and four-year colleges and universities. The curriculum has emphasized administrative leadership and management of programs and services.

Graduates of the CSSA program hold professional positions in nearly every state and in several other countries. Alumni hold numerous middle and upper management positions at colleges and universities including serving as Coordinators, Directors, Assistant and Associate Deans, Deans, Vice Presidents, and Presidents. Alumni have also held numerous leadership positions in professional associations as well as serving on numerous advisory boards, editorial boards, and national and regional committees.

Known as the College Student Personnel Administration (CSPA) until the early 1970s the program title was changed to College Student Services Administration (CSSA). Those who had custody of the records at some time include: College of Education, School of Education, Office of Student Services, Office of Student Affairs, Office of Dean of Students. In 2003 the CSSA program was formally moved to the College of Education. As of 2017, the CSSA Program is situated in the School of Language, Culture, and Society (SLCS) within the College of Liberal Arts with Larry Roper serving as Director.

The following individuals have also served as Directors of the CSSA program: Arthur L. Tollefson (1966-1972); Jo Anne J. Trow (1972-1983); J. Roger Penn (1983-2002); Thomas Scheuermann, (interim during several years in the 2000s); and Richard H. Shintaku.



Author: Tama Bolton (2007) with minor revisions by Elizabeth Nielsen (2017)

Administrative Information

More Extent Information: 1640 photographs; 0.002 Gbytes (7 files); 5 boxes, including 1 oversize box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: Records were received from the College Student Services Administration program by several transfers from 2006 through 2015.  Publications that were previously part of the University Publications and the Student Affairs Records (RG 102) were incorporated into this collection in 2017.

Related Materials: Additional information pertaining to the College Student Services Administration program is available in the Dean of Students Office Records (RG 285), Student Affairs Records (RG 102), School of Education Records (RG 184), and Student Involvement Records (RG 232).  The Special Collections and Archives Research Center also holds the papers of Jo Anne Trow (MSS TrowJ).

Preferred Citation: College Student Services Administration (CSSA) Program Records (RG 233), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Finding Aid Revision History: The finding aid that was prepared in 2007 by Tama Bolton was extensively revised, updated, and expanded in 2017 to reflect additions to the collection and bring the guide into compliance with current descriptive practice.

Creators

Oregon State University. College Student Services Administration Program
Chick, Robert William.
Oregon State University. College Student Personnel Administration
Oregon State University. Office of the Dean of Students
Penn, John Roger.
Trow, Jo Anne J.

People, Places, and Topics

Chick, Robert William
College administrators--Training of--Oregon.
Oregon State University--Graduate students.
Oregon State University. College Student Services Administration
Oregon State University. School of Education
Penn, John Roger
Tollefson, Arthur Leroy.
Trow, Jo Anne J.
Universities and colleges--Graduate work.
University History

Forms of Material

Born digital.
Film negatives.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.
Scrapbooks.


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