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Date Span: 1937-1994
Size: 6 cubic ft.
Number of Boxes: 5 letter sized document boxes, 1 1/2 letter sized document box
Type of material: Correspondence, reports, research materials and photographs.
Physical condition: Good
Arrangement: Organized into eight series: I. Personal Papers; II. Papers published and presented; III. Correspondence; IV. Research; V. Administration; VI. Teaching; VII. Committees; VIII. Photographs
Historical or Biographical Sketch:
Eldon E. "Jake" Jacobsen (1920-2003), psychologist and university professor, was born in 1920. Jake Jacobsen was raised in a university family. His father, Ernest Jacobsen, was chair of the psychology department at the Utah State Agricultural College, now Utah State University, in Logan. Jake earned his bachelor's (1941) and master's (1943) degrees in psychology at Utah State. After military service at Camp Beale, California, Jake undertook doctoral study at the University of Washington. While completing his doctoral degree, he joined the faculty of Central Washington College of Education (now Central Washington University) in 1950 as an assistant professor. Gathering data in the public schools proved to be a bureaucratic nightmare and Jake was not able to complete his doctoral degree until 1955. By that time he had already become an accomplished teacher and influential professional psychologist. Jake promoted the state's first professional standards for psychologists, culminating in legislated licensure standards in 1955. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s, he was appointed by the governor to the state's board of professional examiners. In 1967, Jake took a professional leave year to study and work at the Devereux Foundation, a treatment center for developmental disabilities. This work sharpened his focus on the learning difficulties in children and the profession of school psychology. He was elected to membership by the American Board of Professional Psychologists in 1971. He served in many service committees and governing boards of mental health, school counseling and school psychology associations and agencies. With Professor T. J. Naumann, Jake directed a summer Post-Graduate Institute in Psychology 1975 and 1976, drawing psychologists and professional students from around the country to CWU. He held leadership positions in the American Psychological Association, the Washington State Psychological Association, the Washington Education Association, the Washington State Association and the Washington Mental Health Association. While Jake was primarily a teacher, he served in academic administration in the 1960s. He was chair of the department of psychology from 1962 to 1966 and Acting Dean of the Faculty in 1968. This post was renamed Acting Vice President during his tenure and is now the office of Provost. He led the Department of Psychology during the time that it became separate from the Department of Education, giving the discipline of scientific psychology an independent place in the curriculum. He retired from the faculty in 1985, though he taught occasional courses until 1989 and continued to be active in psychology association affairs. He died in 2003.
Scope and Content Note: The papers of Eldon E. "Jake" Jacobsen contain the papers, reports, correspondence, research and teaching materials of Jake Jacobsen, primarily at Central Washington University. The collection includes personal papers on the life of Jacobsen including his employment history and plays and miscellaneous writings that he did as an undergraduate. The second series contains professional papers written by Jacobsen. His correspondence, which is arranged by date, contains some outgoing correspondence along with incoming correspondence. The correspondence is a mix of material from his professional career. The collection also contains syllabi from his teaching career and one box of grade books. Jacobsen's research includes case files his military service in Fort Beale, California. These files, from 1943 to 1946, are the psychological evaluations (with names deleted) of soldiers deemed unfit for the army. The other group of research files are surveys taken of CWU alumni. These files are arranged by the year of graduation and ask for evaluation of their education at CWU. One series on administration covers Jacobsen's tenure in the University Administration. The series on committees covers a small amount of Jacobsen's work on community committees and committees of psychological organizations. A great deal of this material had been duplicate, so what remains is where he was a primary contributor to policy. The small series of photographs contains a few personal photographs and several from research institutes. The collection came into the archives with no organization so the order of the series had to be imposed. A great deal of duplicate materials and photocopies of articles was culled from the collection.
Container List:
Box 1
Series 1: Personal papers, 1938-1994
1. Army Record, 1941-1945
2. Certificates, 1949-1994
3. College Transcripts, 1937-1947
4. Employment File, 1950-1956
5. Personal Hospitalization Notes, 1978
6. Letters of Recognition, 1970s
7. Outline of Proposed Dissertation, 1952
8. Personality Sketch, n.d.
9. Plays and Writings, 1938-1940
10. Plays, n.d.
11. Professional Data, 1950-1983
12. Thesis Prospectus, n.d.
Series 2: Papers presented and published (arranged by date), 1943-1984.
13. 1943: "An Evaluation of Certain Tests in Predicting Mechanic Learner Achievement."
14. 1946: "The Need for a Full-Time Psychiatrist at the Utah State Industrial School"
15. 1950: "Graphic Representation of Oral Responses as a Teaching Device in a Workshop for the Study of Group Development."
16. 1956: "Student Appraisal"
17. 1962: "The Nature of Counseling"
18. 1963: "Current Problems in Schools"
19. 1963: Workshop for Secondary School Principals
20. 1964: Ellensburg High School Guidance Services and Health
21. 1965: "A Vocational Counselor's Training"
22. 1976: "Preferred Instructor Characteristics and Student Ratings of Instructor Performance"
23. 1977: Career Preparation - Draft
24. 1977: "How Career Oriented should College Curriculum Be?"
25. 1978: "McCarthy Scales: An Accurate Assessment of Gift Children?"
26. 1984: "Should a State College be Concerned with the Careers of its Students?"
27. n.d.: "A Manual of Initial Assistance in Testing for a Guidance Program"
28. n.d.: Book Review on "review of the Brain Injured Child"
29. n.d. "Towards a Developmental Definition of School Psychology"
Box 2
Series 3: Correspondence, 1944-1991.
1. 1944
2. 1945
3. 1947
4. 1948-1949
5. 1950
6. 1951
7. 1952
8. 1953
9. 1954
10. 1955
11. 1956
12. 1957
13. 1958
14. 1959
15. 1960
16. 1961
17. 1962
18. 1963
19. 1965
20. 1966
21. 1968
22. 1969
23. 1970
24. 1971
25. 1972
26. 1973
27. 1974
28. 1975
29. 1976
30. 1977
31. 1978
32. 1979
33. 1980
34. 1981
35. 1982
36. 1983
37. 1985
38. 1986
39. 1987
40. 1991
Box 3
Series 4: Research, 1943-1974.
1. Army Case Histories, 1943-1944
2. Army Case Histories, May-September 1945
3. Army Case Histories, October-December 1945
4. Army Case Histories, 1946
5. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1950
6. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1951
7. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1952
8. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1953
9. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1954
10. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1955
11. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1956
12. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1957
13. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1958
14. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1959
15. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1960
16. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1961
17. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1962
18. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1963
19. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1964
20. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1965
21. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1966
22. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1967
23. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1968
24. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1969
25. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, 1970
26. CWU Alumni Survey: Year of Graduation, not given
27. Preferred Instructor Characteristics, 1974
Box 4
Series 5: Administration, 1969-1974.
1. Community Psychology Services Center, 1974
2. Counselor Certification Committee, 1973
3. Counselor Education Program, n.d.
4. Education Training, 1971
5. Nursing Feasibility Study, 1970
6. Press Release on Student Unrest, 1969
7. Psychology Department Memos, 1973
8. School Psychology Program Survey, 1970
9. School Psychology Program Survey, 1970
10. School Psychology Program Survey, 1970
Series 6: Teaching, 1958-1989
11. Special Education Workshop, 1958
12. Clinical and Counseling Psychology, 1971
13. General Psychology, 1983
14. Individual Testing, n.d.
15. Seminar in Professional Problems, 1982
16. Tests and Measurements, 1981
17. Tests and Measurements, 1982
18. Tests and Measurements, 1984
19. Tests and Measurements, 1988
20. Teaching Evaluations, n.d.
21. Teaching Evaluations (Psych. 552), n.d.
Box 5 - Teaching Grade books - May have privacy issues.
1. Grade book, 1962
2. Grade book, 1963
3. Grade book, 1980
4. Grade book, 1980
5. Grade book, 1984
6. Grade book, 1986-1989
Box 6
Series 7: Committees, 1961-1990.
1. Citizens Regional Advisory Committee, 1972-1976
2. DSHS (Dept. of Social and Health Services), 1972
3. DSHS, State Facilities Advisory Committee, 1972
4. DSHS, Citizens Advisory Commission, Members and Region II, 1974-75
5. DSHS, Meetings, 1975
6. DSHS, Meetings, 1976
7. DSHS, Title 20, 1976
8. DSHS, Workshop Proposal, 1976
9. DSP Certification Committee, 1977
10. Dept. of Health Education and Welfare, 1977
11. Kittitas County Interagency Council, 1975
12. Kittitas County Overall Economic Development Program, 1971-1975
13. Sex Offender Treatment Advisory Committee, 1990
14. SHCC, Testimony of Eldon Jacobsen, 1989
15. State Research Advisory Committee, 1961
16. State Research Advisory Committee, 1962
17. Washington Department of Licensing, 1988
18. Washington State Board of Psychology, 1975
Series 8: Photographs, 1956-1977.
19. Family Snapshots, 1956
20. House (745 N. 7th E.), n.d.
21. "Institute," n.d.
22. Counseling and Guidance Institute, 1964
23. "Institute," 1977 Return to Central Washington University Archives Homepage

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