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John Anderson
Florence Goodenough
Harold Stevenson
Shirley G. Moore
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1925 |
Five-year grant of $245,000 is awarded to establish the
Institute of Child Welfare. John Anderson of Yale University is chosen as
the institute’s first director.
A laboratory nursery school is established along with the institute.
Margaret Wood is its first director.
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First Institute of Child Welfare
building
Pattee Hall, second Institute of
Child Welfare building
Institute of Child Welfare building
in 1940s
The Institute of Child Development
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1925-
1939 |
Parent education is offered by the nursery school through
extension classes, correspondence, study groups, lectures, pre-parent classes
in high schools around the state, radio programs, traveling libraries and
exhibits, and newspaper columns. |
| 1926 |
Florence Goodenough devises the Draw-A-Man test. |
| 1928 |
Josephine Foster publishes the institute’s first study
on memory development, which remains a strong research area to the current
day. An introductory course in child psychology is offered for the first
time. |
| 1930 |
Dorothy McCarthy publishes the institute’s first work on
language development, another strong research area for the Institute through
the years. |
1931-
1934 |
Florence Goodenough, Mildred Parten, and Helen Dawes publish
groundbreaking research in social competence. |
| 1935 |
Financial support is awarded from the state of Minnesota
for the first time: $5,000. |
| 1952 |
Clinical child psychology is offered for the first time
as a graduate school major. |
| 1954 |
The institute moves into its current location. |
| 1955 |
Child psychology is offered as an academic major. |
| 1957 |
Institute affiliates with the College of Education and
the name is changed to Institute of Child Development and Welfare. |
| 1959 |
A training grant is awarded by the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) for graduate student fellowships in child psychology.
The grant continues today as one of the oldest continuing training grants
given by NIMH. |
| 1963 |
The ICDW shortens its name to the Institute of Child Development. |
| 1964 |
Center for Cognitive
Sciences is founded. |
| 1970s |
Center for Early Education and Development
is founded. |
| 1975 |
Fiftieth anniversary of the institute. The academic and
research budgets exceed $1 million for the first time. |
| 1994 |
The Center for Research in Interpersonal Relationships
is founded. |
| 1996 |
The Harris Center for Training Center for
Infant and Toddler Development is founded. (Now a component of CEED) |
| 2000 |
The annual budget exceeds $5 million for the first time,
more than 10 times the budget for 1925 calculated in constant dollars. |
| Institute of
Child Development Directors 1925 - John Anderson
1954 - Dale Harris
1959 - Harold Stevenson
1971 - Willard Hartup
1982 - W. Andrew Collins
1989 - Richard Weinberg
1999 - Ann Masten
2005 - Nicki Crick
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| Shirley G. Moore
Laboratory School Directors 1925 - Margaret Wood
1926 - Josephine Foster
1941 - Elizabeth Fuller
1956 - Evelyn Helgerson
1960 - Shirley Moore
1979 - Lynn Galle
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