Development of student affairs: La Crosse State Normal School to University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Abstract

This study conveys to the reader the development of the Student Affairs Division at the University of Wisconsin -La Crosse. The primary purpose of the study was to present the development of the division from 1909 to 1971. A second purpose was to relate the contributions of student personnel workers who have been involved in the Student Affairs Division and its programs. The final purpose was to record the goals and objectives of the division during its development. A chronological approach is used to make record of the sixty-two year history of the Student Affairs Division at La Crosse. This study is depicted in three developmental periods. The first spans the early years of the La Crosse State Normal School from 1909 to 1938. The second period begins with World War II and follows the institution through its years of growth of students and faculty, building expansion, and land acquisition. The final period relates the development of the present Division of Student Affairs and its structural reorganization from 1963 to 1971. In each period a brief narrative history is presented including the outstanding student personnel workers, their goals and objectives, the student services available, and major developments in the Student Affairs program. The study reveals that the Student Affairs Division at the University of Wisconsin -La Crosse has evolved from the dedication of its student personnel workers, past and present, and their belief in educating the whole student, in the goals of higher education, and in the university.