Celebrating 75 years of excellence:
The Institute of Child Development & the Shirley G. Moore Laboratory School
Originally published in The Link, Fall 2000
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1925 | Five-year grant of $245,000 is awarded to establish the
Institute of Child Welfare. John Anderson of Yale University is chosen
as the institute’s first director. A laboratory nursery school is established along with the institute. Margaret Wood is its first director. |
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| 1925- 1939 |
Parent education is offered by the nursery school through extension classes, correspondence, study groups, lectures, pre-parent classes in high schools around the state, radio programs, traveling libraries and exhibits, and newspaper columns. | ||
| 1926 | Florence Goodenough devises the Draw-A-Man test. | ||
| 1928 | Josephine Foster publishes the institute’s first study on memory development, which remains a strong research area to the current day. An introductory course in child psychology is offered for the first time. | ||
| 1930 | Dorothy McCarthy publishes the institute’s first work on language development, another strong research area for the Institute through the years. | ||
| 1931- 1934 |
Florence Goodenough, Mildred Parten, and Helen Dawes publish groundbreaking research in social competence. | ||
| 1935 | Financial support is awarded from the state of Minnesota for the first time: $5,000. | ||
| 1952 | Clinical child psychology is offered for the first time as a graduate school major. | ||
| 1954 | The institute moves into its current location. | ||
| 1955 | Child psychology is offered as an academic major. | ||
| 1957 | Institute affiliates with the College of Education and the name is changed to Institute of Child Development and Welfare. | ||
| 1959 | A training grant is awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for graduate student fellowships in child psychology. The grant continues today as one of the oldest continuing training grants given by NIMH. | ||
| 1963 | The ICDW shortens its name to the Institute of Child Development. | ||
| 1964 | Center for Cognitive Sciences is founded. | ||
| 1970s | Center for Early Education and Development is founded. | ||
| 1975 | Fiftieth anniversary of the institute. The academic and research budgets exceed $1 million for the first time. | ||
| 1994 | The Center for Research in Interpersonal Relationships is founded. | ||
| 1996 | The Harris Center for Training Center for Infant and Toddler Development is founded. (Now a component of CEED) | ||
| 2000 | The annual budget exceeds $5 million for the first time, more than 10 times the budget for 1925 calculated in constant dollars. | ||
| Institute of
Child Development Directors 1925 - John Anderson 1954 - Dale Harris 1959 - Harold Stevenson 1971 - Willard Hartup 1982 - W. Andrew Collins 1989 - Richard Weinberg 1999 - Ann Masten 2005 - Nicki Crick |
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| Shirley G. Moore
Laboratory School Directors 1925 - Margaret Wood 1926 - Josephine Foster 1941 - Elizabeth Fuller 1956 - Evelyn Helgerson 1960 - Shirley Moore 1979 - Lynn Galle |
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About the Institute (history and scope)