McKay School History
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
When you were at BYU, you may have been enrolled at the College of Education; the name was changed in 1997. This was not the first change. In 1903, when Brigham Young Academy became Brigham Young University, we were called the Church Teachers College. In 1920 we were the School of Education, but in 1921 we became the College of Education. In 1997 the name was changed to the David O. McKay School of Education.
Early History
McKay School History is BYU's History
The Brigham Young Academy was established on October 16, 1875, with Warren N. Dusenberry as interim principal. Karl G. Maeser became the principal on April 14, 1876.
The Brigham Young Academy was a
normal school, with the purpose of training teachers and establishing teaching standards or norms, hence the name. Some Academy students were at the elementary level and received tutoring from older students. By August 28, 1876, the academy had three academic departments: normal, intermediate, and primary.
On January 4, 1892, Benjamin Cluff Jr. became Principal of the Brigham Young Academy and head of the Latter-day Saints Normal Training School. The organization was changed to include the following:
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Kindergarten
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Primary School
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High School
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College or Collegiate Department
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Commercial College
On October 23, 1903 Brigham Young Academy became Brigham Young University. On April 16, 1903 George H. Brimhall was named president of BYU.
Deans of the College of Education/McKay School of Education
1950 Reuben D. Law
1955 Asahel D. Woodruff
1961 A. John Clarke (Acting Dean)
1962 Antone K. Romney
1970 Stephen L. Alley
1973 Antone K. Romney (Acting Dean)
1974 Curtis N. Van Alfen
1985 Ralph B. Smith
1989 Dan Anderson
1992 Robert S. Patterson
2003 K. Richard Young
Department Names Have Changed
Your own department may have also gone through name changes.
The
Department of Communication Disorders
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was Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.
The
Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education
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was the Department of Counseling and Special Education
- and before that the Department of Educational Psychology.
Teacher Education was once two separate departments:
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Elementary Education
- Secondary Education
Instructional Psychology and Technology has been renamed twice:
- Instructional Science
- Instructional Psychology
In 1954, the Department of
Physical Education,
Health and Recreation became a separate college. In 2010 that department was absorbed into other colleges around campus with the
Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) relocated in the Department of Teacher Education in the McKay School.
References
* Ernest L. Wilkinson’s Brigham Young University: The First Hundred Years
* Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education, A Chronological History compiled by Darwin Gale.