Graduate Education

In the summer of 1960,  the UW/State Colleges Cooperative Graduate Program for Classroom Teachers was instituted.  This offered classes in the summer at various colleges with the degrees conferred by UW Madison.   OSC vice president, Raymond Ramsden served as the local director of that program.   With that program going well, in January of 1962, the Coordinating Committee on Higher Education formally recommended that the colleges grant their own graduate degrees outside of the cooperative program.   The schools worked fast,  the Wisconsin State Colleges Graduate Program was instituted in the summer of 1962 on a trial basis.  By 1963, it was official, the colleges could work toward granting their own degrees in 1965 (which UW Oshkosh appeared to have done, graduating its first in July 1965).   That fall UWO received preliminary accreditation for the Graduate Program.  

Everett Pyle replaced Ramsden as coordinator of the graduate program by September, 1962.  By October, his peers were calling Pyle the director of graduate studies (and in one case, Dean).  Courses in both programs (cooperative and colleges) were offered in the summer of 1963.