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New York State Education Department Bureau of Business and Distributive Education Application Files for Registration of Private Business Schools


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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:
The authority for registering private business schools was contained in the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education. All new teachers at such schools must be approved by the Education Department, and schools must meet facility, equipment, faculty, financial, and curriculum requirements upon registration. This series contains records relating to the registration and annual reregistration of private business schools and approval of teachers employed by these schools.
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Application files for registration of private business schools
Quantity:

19 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:
1923-1970
Series Number:
10220

Arrangement

Chronological by time period; thereunder alphabetical by name of school, then in reverse chronological order. Note: Chronological cutoffs are not absolute.

Administrative History

The authority for registering private business schools was contained in the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education. When codified in 1942, Section 197 (renumbered as Part 127 in 1970) established facility, equipment, faculty, financial, and curriculum requirements for registration and annual reregistration of these schools. All new teachers at a school must also be approved by the Department under the same section. Until 1937 the work of registering these schools was carried out by a supervisor in commercial education under the Assistant Commissioner for Secondary Education. That year the Bureau of Business Education was established in the Division of Vocational Education. In 1950, it was renamed Bureau of Business and Distributive Education, and in 1963 was transferred to the Division of General Occupational Education I.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains records relating to the registration and annual reregistration of private business schools and approval of teachers employed by these schools.

The files for each school contain: requests for approval to teach in a private registered business school, giving educational, teaching, and employment history of teacher, salary, and current teaching responsibilities; teachers' transcripts; application for registration of a business school; field reports of visits to schools, giving a narrative description of the school's history, facilities and equipment, enrollment, tuition rates, faculty, graduation requirements, and recommendation of visitor regarding registration; memoranda and correspondence regarding approval or denial of registration; copies of school catalogs and other advertising publications; and occasional blueprints of school facilities in file for initial registration.

At the end of the series are files for schools formerly registered, but subsequently denied or not requesting registration.

Access Restrictions

Restricted access: College transcripts must be removed before research use due to provisions of the Personal Privacy Protection Act.

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Detailed Description

Dates Contents Box

Accretion: 10220-83
circa 1923-1951 Albany Business College - Collegiate Secretarial Institute 1
circa 1923-1951 Eastman School, Inc. - Mildred Elley Secretarial School 2
circa 1923-1951 The Miller School - The Wood School 3
circa 1950-1960 Albany Business College - Jamestown Business College 4
circa 1950-1960 (The) Kelley Business Institute - Monroe School of Business 5
circa 1950-1960 Mount Vernon School Business - The Wood School 6
1960-1964 Albany Business College - Krissler Business Institute 7
1960-1964 Lowell School of Business - Watertown School of Commerce 8
1960-1964 Westchester Business School - The Wood School 9
1964-1969 Claremont Secretarial School - Adelphi Business School 10
1964-1969 Midtown School of Business, Inc. - Rochester Business Institute 11
1964-1969 Claremont School in Nassau - Merchants and Bankers Business and Secretarial School 12
1964-1969 Spencer Schenectady - The Wood School - New York CIty 13
1969-1970 Adelphi Business School - Wood School 14
Registration Terminated: Private Business School Application Denied - Dunkirk Business Institute 15
Registration Terminated: East New York Business School - Long Island Business School 16
Registration Terminated: Madison School of Business - The Packard School 17
Registration Terminated: The Packard School - Troy Business College 18
Registration Terminated: The United States Secretarial School - Y.W.C.A. Secretarial and Business School 19