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Iowa State University. College of Business records

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RS 27/1

Scope and Content

This collection consists of materials related to the College of Business. Records include news clippings, annual reports, newsletters, subject files, biographical files, faculty and committee meeting minutes, photographs and slides, records of the Department of Industrial administration, and deans files.

Dates

  • Creation: undated

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

Open for research.

Use/Re-use Restrictions

Consult Special Collections and University Archives

Biography/Profile

Business classes have been offered at Iowa State since the early 1920s. At that time, they were offered under the curriculum of Business Engineering in the Department of Economics. The name of the curriculum changed in 1929 to Engineering Economics and further changed to Industrial Economics in the late 1930s. During this time, the administration allowed the Industrial Economics sub-discipline to operate fairly autonomously from the rest of the Department of Economics and Sociology.



In 1955, separate status was approved and the Department of Industrial Administration was created under department head William H. Schrampfer. The department was placed in the Division of Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences). At the time, the Department of Industrial Administration included 299 business major students and 11 faculty members. In 1968, William H. Thompson was named department head, and enrollment grew to 715 business major students and 17 faculty members. In 1975, the population increased to 1,340 business majors under the leadership of department chair Lynn Loudenback.



The Industrial Administration Department offered undergraduate programs for those in the business-oriented positions in industry and government. Graduate degrees were not offered in Industrial Administration until 1975, when the M.A. was approved.

In 1980, the Iowa State University School of Business Administration was created out of the Department of Industrial Administration. The school changed its name to the College of Business Administration in 1984. That same year, it awarded the first Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) degrees to 205 fall semester graduates and could boast 2,115 business students. In the following year, 1985, the College of Business Administration admitted the first students to it new Masters in Business Administration (MBA) program. In 1991, the name of the college changed once again to simply, the College of Business. By 1994, when the College celebrated its tenth anniversary, it included nearly 3,000 students and fifty-eight faculty members, and just five years later in 1999, the College of Business included 1,548 pre-business majors, 1,871 business majors, 65 tenure-track faculty, 14 adjunct faculty, and over 18,000 alumni. This ranked it third among Iowa State University’s colleges in the combined total number of undergraduate and graduate students. The College of Business can trace its growth to continuing partnerships with private business, strong scholarship programs, and efforts to keep up with the latest technologies and business methods.



The Iowa State University College of Business offers undergraduate programs in a variety of fields, including accounting, entrepreneurial studies, finance, international business, management, management information systems, marketing, productions/operations management, and transportation logistics. For graduate students, the College of Business offers programs leading toward an MBA, a Master of Accounting (MACC), a Master of Science in Information Systems (MS-IS), a Master of Science in Information Assurance (MS-INFS), and a Master of Science in Industrial Relations (MS-IR).

Deans and Heads:



W. H. Schrampfer(1955-1968)

W. H. Thompson (1968-1975)

L. J. Loudenback (1975-1978)

C. B. Handy (1978-1989)

David L. Shrock (1989-1994)

Benjamin Allen (1994-2001)

Labh Hira (2001-2002) Interim

Ronald Hill (2002-2002) (named Dean but never served)

Labh Hira (2002-2012)

David P. Spalding (2012- )

Extent

1 collection

Items in related collections

RS 27/1/4. Iowa Small Business Development Centers records, 1977-2007, undated

Processing Information

Released on 2019-04-11.

Title
RS 27/1. Iowa State University. College of Business records
Date
July 23, 2020
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and University Archives Repository

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701 Morrill Road
Iowa State University
Ames Iowa 50011-2102 United States
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