Vacha, Dr. Kathryn part 1(tape #13 side b)
Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 45 min
1976
Dr. Vacha talks about the many different ways in which WCSU offered certification programs for teachers. She also talks about WCSU and how it was dealing with the changing gender roles of the time period.
Label Contents: 10/13/1976
Friel, Jack
Vacha, Dr. Kathryn
Running Time: 45 min
0-10 Min: Assistant. Director of graduate studies and professor of education; B.A. from University of Iowa, Masters and PhD at Columbia;
10-20 Min: the time-line for WCSU name changes from Danbury state teachers college to Danbury state college in 1967 and western Connecticut state college in 1970; cooperative teacher education program between WCSU and the town of Darien, purpose was to help people with B.a.'s not in education get their teaching certificate; She both taught and supervised the program; ipcg= intensive program for college graduates. Another program was designed to help college graduates get their certification to teach elementary school. This program operated under the rule that those who completed it were required to teach in Connecticut for 1 year after completing the program;
20-30 Min: The sixth year certificate is a program that is a year longer than a masters degree program;
30-40 Min: personal banter not related to WCSU
40-50 Min: the development of courses pertaining specifically to women, courses that deal with the changing roles of both women and men in the current society; there was a program that was very much like the Darien one in Westport at the same time;
Vacha, Dr. Kathryn parts 2/3 (tape #14 sides a/b)
Tape stock length: 60 min
Running Time: 35min
Dr. Vacha continues her discussion of feminism and how she relates to and interprets the movement for her life. She talks about the impact of the expanding student population on the graduate program.
Label Contents: 10/13/1976
1976
Friel, Jack
Vacha, Dr. Kathryn
Running Time: 35min
-10 Min: stresses the point that she is not an ardent feminist, due to the fact that she is spearheading the push for more women's studies courses at WCSU; general discussion of the women's movement and how she interprets it personally; the role of both genders in the days of the Danbury Normal School;
10-20 Min: influx of male teachers helped to improve the salary scale for female teachers; more discussion about the gender roles at WCSU in the early years;
20-30 Min: discussion of maintaining the graduate studies catalog; m.a. in oceanology, m.a. psychology, and m.s. in social sciences were being added at the time; how the growing student population affected the graduate program; from 1968-1969 the graduate population doubled;
30-40 Min: origins of the multiple commencement ceremonies which started in 1972;