Lincoln Consolidated School collection

Collection

Identifier: 07.LCS

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Lincoln Consolidated School collection contains information on budgets, Eastern Michigan University relations, personnel, administration, meeting minutes, superintendents, curriculum, faculty, staff, clippings, and correspondence. The collection is arranged alphabetically and is divided into five series. Records date from 1920 to 2006.

The five series that are included in the collection are: Administration; Board of Education; Curriculum, Faculty and Staff; History; and Publicity and Outreach. The Administration series includes a sub-series of Eastern Michigan University Relations, and Personnel. The Board of Education series contains two sub-series of Meeting Minutes and Superintendents. The Publicity and Outreach series also includes a sub-series of clippings.

Dates

1920 - 2006

Conditions Governing Access

Researchers are asked to request materials 24 hours prior to visiting the the University Archives.

Biographical / Historical

The Lincoln Consolidated School was founded in the early 1920s. Eastern Michigan University played a large role in helping to combine ten rural school districts, most of them one room school houses, into one large school district. This had only been done once before in Washington State. The Lincoln Consolidated School helped to blaze a trail for all other school districts both in Michigan and around the United States that were hoping to accomplish a similar goal. Lincoln Consolidated worked closely with Eastern Michigan University not only as a funding source, but as a place of education for many of EMU's student teachers. Consolidating the schools was a huge success, growing quickly and is still in operation today.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (1 record center carton)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Lincoln Consolidated School collection documents the development of Michigan's first large consolidated school district. In the 1920s ten small school districts, mostly one room school houses, were combined to form one large school district. The collection is arranged alphabetically and divided into five separate series. The Administration series includes budget, Eastern Michigan University Relations, fundraising, reports and surveys, and personnel. The Board of Education series contains information about administration, meeting minutes, and the schools superintendents. The Curriculum, Faculty and Staff series contains block prints, curriculum, curriculum council meeting minutes, faculty and staff, teacher laboratory manual, and student teachers. The History series includes books and scrapbooks, From My Window, A History of the Lincoln Consolidated, general school history, and a scrapbook history of Lincoln Consolidated. The Publicity and Outreach series includes clippings, correspondence, International Northern Great Plains Conference, the Mariner, and special programs. Records date from 1920-2006.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into five series: 1. Administration, including budget information, an overview of Eastern Michigan University's relationship with Lincoln Consolidated School, funraising and personnel information; 2. Board of Education, which includes information on administration, board of education meeting minutes, and the search for a new superintendent in the early 1960s; 3.Curriculum, Faculty, and Staff, includes information about the schools curriculum, curriculum council meeting minutes, and student teachers; 4. History, including the history and forming of the Lincoln Consolidated School; 5. Publicity and Outreach, includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, yearbooks and special programs.