Robert Averill Walker papers, 1950-1995
- Physical description
- 21.75 linear feet
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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 |
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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.