Brigham Young University. Department of Business Education and Office Management
Biography
The Department of Business Education and Office Management (1956-1963) was a department in the College of Business at Brigham Young University.
The Department of Business Education was established in 1956 in response to the increasing demand for graduates in the business field. The department was headed by the following chairmen: Lars G. Crandall (1956), Edward L. Christensen (1957-1958), Lars G. Crandall (1959), Edward L. Christensen (1960), and Richard D. Bell (1961-1963).
The Department of Business Education and Office Management was created with two general purposes in mind: to prepare those planning on teaching business subjects at the high school level and to train executive secretaries in office skills and management techniques.
The Department of Business Education and Office Management was responsible for the teaching of courses on the classes of basic classroom procedures, secondary curriculum and participation, secondary student teaching, fundamentals of business education. It was also responsible for the teaching of courses that focused on general office management including the classes of calculating machines, basic office procedures, machine accounting, records control and office machines, directed office experience, office management, business English, business report writing, shorthand, applied stenography, typewriting, secretarial and statistical typewriting, and transcription.
Citation:
Brigham Young University Organizational History Project website, viewed Jul. 28, 2011 (Department of Business Education and Office Management; established, 1956; chairmen: Lars G. Crandall (1956), Edward L. Christensen (1957-1958), Lars G. Crandall (1959), Edward L. Christensen (1960), and Richard D. Bell (1961-1963); two purposes: to prepare those planning on teaching business subjects at the high school level and to train executive secretaries in office skills and management techniques; classes of basic classroom procedures, secondary curriculum and participation, secondary student teaching, fundamentals of business education; courses that focused on general office management including the classes of calculating machines, basic office procedures, machine accounting, records control and office machines, directed office experience, office management, business English, business report writing, shorthand, applied stenography, typewriting, secretarial and statistical typewriting, and transcription)Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Department of Business Education and Office Management correspondence, 1970-1978
Contains correspondence pertaining to the department’s daily business. Dated 1970-1978.
Department of Business Education and Office Management department records, 1960-1979
Contains course schedules, manuals, faculty minutes, reports, and graduation programs. Dated 1960-1979.
Department of Business Education and Office Management records
Contains department correspondence, financial records, student records, and department records. The records include budgets, notes, transcripts, corporate minutes, reports, applications, and graduation programs.
Department of Business Education and Office Management student records, 1967-1979
Contains records of students associated with the department and includes applications, correspondence, surveys of graduates, and transcripts. Dated 1967-1979.
Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy records
Contains administrative records, course materials, teacher evaluations, reports, correspondence, faculty meeting minutes, faculty publications, scrapbooks, and other materials created by the Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy in the Marriott School of Business, dated 1955-2003.
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