Robert Averill Walker papers, 1950-1995

Physical description: 21.75 linear feet

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Call number	Status
SC0546 1998-097 BOX 13	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 BOX 14	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 1	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 2	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 3	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 4	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 5	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 6	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 7	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 8	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 9	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 10	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 11	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 CARTON 18	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 FLAT BOX 15	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 FLAT BOX 16	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 FLAT BOX 17	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 FLAT BOX 19	In-library use
SC0546 1998-097 OVERSIZE BOX 12	In-library use
SC0546 1998-114 BOX 1	In-library use
SC0546 1998-114 BOX 2	In-library use
SC0546 1998-114 BOX 3	In-library use
SC0546 1998-114 HALF BOX 4	In-library use
SC0546 1998-127 BOX 1	In-library use

Description

Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator: Walker, Robert Averill, 1914-

Contents/Summary

Finding aid: Finding aid
Summary: Papers pertain largely to his administrative duties at Stanford University and include correspondence, minutes, agenda, memoranda, and reports; subjects include the overseas studies program, the political science department, international studies, curriculum reviews, and faculty/staff housing on campus. Also of note are the minutes with indexes from the Committee on University Policy, 1959-68, and the Advisory Committee on Land and Building Development, 1951-57. Collection also includes photograph albums and slides of the Stanford overseas campuses and/or programs in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Japan.

Subjects

Subject: Stanford University > Administration.; Stanford University Committee on International Studies.; Stanford University > Curricula.; Stanford University. Department of Political Science; Stanford University > Faculty.; Stanford University Overseas Studies Program.; Foreign study.; Universities and colleges > Administration.; Universities and colleges > Curricula.; Stanford University > Faculty housing.

Genre: Photoprints.; Slides.

Bibliographic information

Earliest date: 1950
Latest date: 1995
Note: Robert A. Walker was professor of political science at Stanford University from 1949 until his retirement in 1976. He was a co-founder of the overseas studies program at Stanford, and active on university committees dealing with land use planning and faculty/staff housing. He was also instrumental in curriculum studies, serving as director of general studies in the 1950s-60s. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago; he worked for the National Resources Planning Board and taught at Kansas State before joining the Stanford faculty. He died Feb. 3, 1998.
Provenance: Gift of the estate of Robert A. Walker, 1998.

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