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Education : an address delivered over CBC on Sunday, September 29th, 1946

MS-1-Ref, Box 1, Folder 20, Item 4
Item
1946 September 29

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of an offprint containing the text of an address delivered on C.B.C. by President Alexander Enoch Kerr on Sunday, September 29th, 1946, discussing the importance of making available post-secondary education opportunities for service men and women returning from the Second World War.

The significance of the Reformed Church tradition for modern education

MS-1-Ref, Box 1, Folder 20, Item 5
Item
1948

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of an offprint containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr to the Annual Meeting of the Western Section of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, held in 1948 in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, about the integration of Reformed Church/Calvinist principles into modern educational methods.

Directory of graduates and former students of the University

MS-1-Ref, Box 117, Folder 8
File
1925

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in 1925. The volume contains a bookplate for Archibald McKellar MacMechan.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

College trained over 1,300 men for ministry

MS-1-Ref, Box 131, Folder 6, Page 15
Item
September 6, 1955

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item is a clipping of an article written by C.M. Nicholson published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald on September 5, 1955.

Nicholson, Rt. Rev. Clarence McK.

Brief to the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education / W. Andrew MacKay

MS-1-Ref, Box 14, Folder 18, Item 1
Item
November 1983

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of Dalhousie University's "Brief to the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education", submitted in NOvember 1983 by W. Andrew MacKay.

A Discussion Paper on the Report on the Royal Commission on Post-Secondary Education

MS-1-Ref, Box 14, Folder 18, Item 2
Item
23 April 1986

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of a paper drafted by Dalhousie University responding to the findings of the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education, drafted in April 1986

Convocation Program - Spring, May 22-30, 2012

MS-1-Ref, Box 150, Folder 66
File
2012

Part of Dalhousie University convocation programs

Contains information on Conferring Honorary Degrees to: Dr. Eugene Levy; Dr. John Elliot Dowling; Dr. Annette Verschuren; dr. Nancy Olivieri; Dr. Satya Nandan; Dr. A.L. Burton Conrod; Dr. Marcia Ann Boyd; Dr. James Gordon Duff; Dr. Dame Wendy Hall and Dr. Moh'd Shenhadeh

Convocation Program - Spring, May 24-27; 30-31, 2011

MS-1-Ref, Box 156, Folder 50
File
2011

Part of Dalhousie University convocation programs

Convocation Program - Fall, October 1-3, 2012

MS-1-Ref, Box 157, Folder 55
File
2012

Part of Dalhousie University convocation programs

Contains information on Conferring Honorary Degrees to: Dr. Robert Roberts; Mr. Peter MacKinnon; Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire

Directory of graduates and former students of the University : corrected to September, 1937

MS-1-Ref, Box 27, Folder 19
File
September 1937

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains 2 copies of a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in September 1937. The directory is an update of a similar directory published by the Dalhousie Alumni Association in 1925.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 2002

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 14
Item
2002

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Fall 2002 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes a message from the Dean, obituaries for Dr. Margaret Clagg and Dr. Robert Weil, and other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 11, Number 2, Fall 2001

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 15
Item
2001

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Fall 2001 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes an editorial by Jutta Dayle titled "What To Be Or What Not To Be: The Future of the Health Professions in the Faculty of Health Professions", among other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2003

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 16, Item 1
Item
2003

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Spring 2003 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes a message from the Dean, Lynn McIntyre, a piece by George Turnbull titled "Moving Towards A Research Intensive Faculty", a piece of Louise Ghiz titled "The Challenge of Sustaining Canada's Most Successful Social Work Continuing Education Program", a memorial of Rosemary Brown, and other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 13, Number 2, Fall 2003

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 16, Item 2
Item
2003

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Fall 2003 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes an update from Dean Lynn McIntyre, a piece by George Turnbull titled "Reality Following A Successful Grant Application", a piece by Josephine Etowa titled "Increasing Racial Diversity in the Health Professions: A Call for a Comprehensive Minority Recruitment and Retention Program", a memorial for Prof. Mary Lou Ellerton, an other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2004

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 17
Item
2004

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Spring 2004 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes an update from Dean Lynn McIntyre, a message from George Turnbull, a piece by David Divine titled "Relevance, Resonance, Credibility and Results", among other regular departmental updates.

As per page 39, "this will be the last edition of the newsletter in this format."

A Brief Submitted by the Department of Education, Dalhousie University - Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 37
File

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Draft releases on the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University

MS-1-Ref, Box 97, Folder 13, Item 4
Item
1963-1965

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of two drafts of an announcement about the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University, beginning September 3, 1963; as well as a handwritten sheet outlining the experience of Arthur Shears, first director of the School.

College of Pharmacy : refresher courses

MS-13-82, Box 31, Folder 9
File
1965-2004

Part of J. Gordon Duff fonds

File contains textual records pertaining to refresher courses given by the College of Pharmacy's Division of Continuing Pharmacy Education. The 2004 program celebrates the 40th year of offering the course (1964-2004). The second document is the program for the 1965 course, with the title "Hospital Pharmacy Institute".

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

RIDIT and enlightenment for Yoruba men (prepared for Jane Murphy's 1964 orthopsychiatry paper)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 12
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of datasets of education statistics for male Yoruba study respondents.

Varieties of enlightened men of Ilewo, 1964

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 14
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of vignettes (survey response compilations) of 12 enlightened men from Ilewo.

Percentage tables for Jane Murphy's ethos paper

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 15
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains tables and charts of literacy and education statistics among Yoruba men.

Inkeles and Murphy data comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 16
File
1969 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."

MANOVA analysis of Yoruba statistical material

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 17
File
[1972?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts of calculations for analysis of variance of literacy data. Also includes information on the MANOVA analytical method.

Statistical tests on change and disorder in Yoruba men for Jane Murphy's ethos paper

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 18
File
1966 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts of calculations for literacy statistics. Also includes copies of publications dealing with range tests: "Multiple range and multiple f tests" by David B. Duncan, "Extensions of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications" by Clyde Young Kramer, and "Multivariate statistical programs" by Dean J. Clyde, Elliot M. Cramer, and Richard J. Sherin.

Enlightenment data (includes residence in Big City and never used in Cornell-Aro book)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 4
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains note on village enlightenment categories, tables of social data statistics, and code for enlightenment samples.

Education and literacy analysis (some used in Cornell-Aro book)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 5
File
[1962?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of charts and datasets for literacy and education statistics of villages with ABCD and RIDIT calculations.

Statistical analysis of enlightenment, education, and literacy (for Cornell-Aro book, some used)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 6
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts and tables of village education and literacy data analysis.

Print-outs on education

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 7
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of computer printouts of education datasets and code.

Reliability of data on literacy in Yoruba among men

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.

Nigerian women's study master lists

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 1
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains lists of educated Nigerian women, organized by region.

Alexander Leighton's Cambridge records

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 6
File
1932 - 1933

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains anatomy school certificates, term exams, and a book of medical degrees from Alexander Leighton's time at Cambridge University.

Education and migration analysis sheets 1 - 15

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 2
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 1 to 15.

Education and migration analysis sheets 16 - 30

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 3
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 16 to 30.

Education and migration analysis sheets 31 - 45

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 4
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 31 to 45.

Education and migration analysis sheets 46 - 60

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 5
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 46 to 60.

Education and migration analysis sheets 61 - 75

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 6
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 61 to 75.

Education and migration analysis sheets 76 - 90

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 7
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 76 to 90.

Education and migration analysis sheets 90 - 105

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 8
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 90 to 105.

Education and migration analysis sheets 106 - 120

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 9
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 106 to 120.

Information on respondents' husbands' occupation and education

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 10
File
1960 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.

Information on respondents' parents' education

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 11
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a listing of respondent ID numbers alongside brief summaries of their parents' education histories.

Information on education and age by ABCD

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 14
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts, calculations, datasets, and graphs tracking education and age. File also includes notes on the relationship between education level and mental health.

Notes on academic degrees and education in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 8
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.

Statistical data on education in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 9
File
1960 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains three booklet reports on aspects of Nigerian education. Titles are "Investment in education: the report of the commission on post-school certificate and higher education in Nigeria" (1960), "The Nigerian Association of University Women survey of women's education in western Nigeria" (1963), and "Ministry of Economic Planning and Community Development annual abstract of education statistics" (1961)."

Guttman scale for mental health and acculturation level analysis

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 1
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, graphs comparing the relationship between mental health and acculturation, and a study by Frederic Ilfeld titled "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."

Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
File
[1965 - 1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, datasets and statistics on respondents' occupations and economic status, and notes on coding education data. File also includes a copy of "Two factor index of social position" by August B. Hollingshead.

Compiled data for urban female Yoruba respondents

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 4
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of several pages of data tables and statistics for female Yoruba respondents' socioeconomic factors, including age group, mental health, children, education, tribal difference, and social class.

Analysis of cultural change / by Fred Ilfield

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, and graphs and datasets analyzing socioeconomic acculturation of Yoruba women. File also includes three copies of Ilfield's study "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."

Rural education

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 47
File
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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