Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, Office of the Dean, Leon Carroll Marshall, Edith Abbott, and Helen R. Wright, records, 1920-1956
Chicago, University of, School of Social Service Administration, Office of the Dean, Leon Carroll Marshall, Edith Abbott, and Helen R. Wright, records 1920-1956
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| Notes: | Series IV contains student grades and evaluations, restricted for 80 years. The remainder of the collection is open for research, with no restrictions.
The Graduate School of Social Service Administration was founded in 1920 when the trustees of the University accepted a proposal to carry on as a graduate professional school the work of the financially troubled Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, combining with it the Philanthropic division of the University's School of Commerce and Administration. A major grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1926 guaranteed the school's financial security and enabled it to expand its work, beginning with the publication of a journal, Social Service Review, edited by Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, and Grace Abbott, as well as a source book series and a monograph series. Having originated in the settlement movement, SSA especially stressed public welfare and social insurance in its curriculum. During the depression its program grew, matching the expansion of public relief services. For example, in 1934-35 a special program of downstate classes was organized in cooperation with the Illinois Emergency Relief Administration. The administration and faculty of SSA initially resisted the trend in social work toward an emphasis on a psychiatric model in casework. Not until the arrival of Charlotte Towle in 1932 was there a faculty member expert in mainstream developments in casework theory and practice. The Curriculum Committee's Subcommittee on Social Case Work took up the development of a so-called "generic casework" curriculum. Even as its philosophic orientation gradually changed, SSA maintained conscious continuity with the intellectual heritage of Breckinridge and the Abbotts. Nowhere is this reflected more clearly than in the choices of deans for the school. Edith Abbott's successor upon her retirement as dean in 1942 was Helen R. Wright, who had studied in the School of Civics and Philanthropy, worked as Grace Abbott's research assistant, completed her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago in 1922, and joined the SSA faculty in 1928. Wright served as dean until 1956.
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| Summary: | Consists of publications, correspondence, financial records, proposals, reports, studies, teaching materials, statistics, and student materials.
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| Cite as: | When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: University of Chicago. School of Social Service Administration. Office of the Dean. Leon Carroll Marshall, Edith Abbott, and Helen R. Wright. Records, 1920-1956, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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