| Creator | Weinberg, Joel |
| Title | Joel Weinberg papers |
| Dates | 1963-1977 |
| Identification | MS 13 |
| Quantity | 2.0 linear feet (4 manuscript containers) |
| Collection Abstract | The Joel Weinberg papers document the career of a faculty member very involved in the administration of Simmons College and of the Education Department. The collection contains files on various faculty committees that Weinberg was associated with; reports, handbooks, and pamphlets relating to Weinberg’s professional interests; and records relating to Weinberg’s involvement with the Education Department. |
| Historical Abstract | Joel S. Weinberg taught at Simmons College for 14 years, where he served as Director of the Program in Elementary Education, and Director of the Special Education Program. Weinberg specialized in the study of reading and elementary education and wrote a series of elementary school workbooks and journal articles on the subject. |
| Language | Material in English. |
| Location | Collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Archives staff for more information. |
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[Identification of item: description and date], Joel Weinberg papers, MS 13, Simmons College Archives, Boston, MA, USA.
Gift of Joel Weinberg
Accession number: 1978, 1980
Processed by Kent Woynowski, November 2000
Supervised by Claire Goodwin and Liz Copenhagen, November 2000
This collection guide was encoded as part of the LEADS project by Elise Dunham, March 2013
Joel S. Weinberg was born on May 25, 1916 in New York City. In 1938 he was a Phi Delta Kappa graduate of City College in New York City, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in education. After graduation, in a effort to ensure a job during the Depression, he entered the police academy, and in 1940, joined the New York Police Department as a patrolman. He served for 20 years in Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn, attaining the rank of lieutenant.(1)
In 1961, after leaving the NYPD, he received a Master of Science in education from City College and taught school in Harlem. He then moved with his wife, Edith and family to Brookline, Massachusetts, enrolling in the doctorate of education program at Harvard University. After receiving his degree in 1964, he taught for 14 years at Simmons College, where he served as Director of the Program in Elementary Education, and Director of the Special Education Program. Weinberg specialized in the study of reading and elementary education and wrote a series of elementary school workbooks and journal articles on the subject.(2)
Retiring from Simmons in 1978, Weinberg enrolled in Boston College Law School at the age of 62, fulfilling a lifelong ambition to become a lawyer. He graduated in 1981 and opened his own practice in Harwich, Massachusetts. Through his practice he defended the causes of the elderly and the needy. He died in 1988 at the age of 72.(3)
The Joel Weinberg Papers document the career of a faculty member highly involved in the administration of Simmons College and of the Simmons College Education Department. The collection contains files on various faculty committees that Weinberg was associated with; reports, handbooks, and pamphlets relating to Weinberg’s professional interests; and records relating to Weinberg’s involvement with the Education Department. Topics covered include higher education, the Black Student Organization, student activities, urban teaching programs, television in the classroom, continuing education, and special education.
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
Collection is arranged into 3 series:
Records document the various faculty committees of which Weinberg was a member or in which he had a personal interest. Committees in which Weinberg served include the Subcommittee on Admissions, the Article IX Committee, the Committee on College Policy, the Independent Study Committee, the AAUP (the American Association of University Professors) Committee, the Committee on Social Issues, the Grading Subcommittee (also known as the Honors-Pass-Fail Subcommittee), the Curriculum Committee, the Governance Committee, and the Mellon Advisory Committee (also known as SPLICE (Simmons Project for Liberalizing and Integrating Career Education). Includes reports, memos, interviews, survey results, policy documents and correspondence. Of note are the records from the Curriculum Committee, which consist of memos relating to demands by the Black Student Organization in regards to curriculum development and faculty hiring, a draft of Simmons College's affirmative action plan, and statistics on black student enrollment.
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End of AAUP Committee subseries.
Box 2
End of Grading Subcommittee subseries.
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This series contains four reports, handbooks, and pamphlets relating to Weinberg’s professional interests.
Arranged chronologically.
Box 2
Box 3
Arranged by subject, then chronologically.
The records in this series relate to Weinberg's activities within the Education Department including general memos of the Education Department; records of Weinberg's involvement with WBGH, the Boston public television station, and its project studying the uses of television in the classroom; records on student teacher placement; statistical data on Education majors; records of student activities and class syllabi; a copy of "Lincoln-Sudbury-Simmons Partnership Program Initial Application, 1966;" records regarding urban teaching programs; continuing education records; records concerning Education Department programs on special education; and correspondence to and from Weinberg.
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