Subject files

Chronological by one or two year period.

1937-1938:alphabetic by subject, place name, school, or organization. Most files on schools are under "State Schools."

1938-1940 and 1940-1941:by major category (Inter Office, Inter Department, Regents, Academic, and General), then alphabetic by subject, place name, school, organization, person, or type of record.

The office of Assistant Commissioner for Vocational and Extension Education was created in 1926 by the Board of Regents.

The Assistant Commissioner supervised the Division of Vocational and Extension Education and the Division of Rehabilitation. In the department reorganization of 1937, the Regents created the position of Associate Commissioner, who had general supervision over the three Assistant Commissioners for Instructional Supervision, Teacher Education, and Vocational and Extension Education. When Lewis A. Wilson was made Associate Commissioner he retained the title and duties of Assistant Commissioner for Vocational and Extension Education. The Regents offically made his title "Associate Commissioner and Acting Assistant Commissioner for Vocational and Extension Education."

This series consists mainly of routine administrative records relating to the supervisory functions of the Associate Commissioner and Acting Assistant Commissioner for Vocational and Extension Education. Some items relate to policy and curriculum development. Included are incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, meeting minutes, occasional photographs, and copies of publications. Dr. Lewis A. Wilson held both positions concurrently during the period.

Among the subjects covered are: vocational rehabilitation; trade and correspondence schools; industrial, agricultural, distributive, and adult education; public service training; home economics; library extension; and the New York State Merchant Marine Academy (now the State University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler). For the period of March to June 1941 these records originated in the Deputy Commissioner's office to which Dr. Wilson was appointed by the Regents. The rest of the Deputy Commissioner's Subject Files are in series B0459.

Series B0459, Deputy Commissioner's Subject Files, contains the remainder of these subject files.

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