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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. |
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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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