Binder 2 - Box 1: This volume contains information collected by Bob Schaefer related to the history of education in Southwest Washington and includes the high-tech needs of Southwest Washington as a portion of the state under served by higher education. The records show the development of the Joint Center for Education, the development of a higher education task force, the formation of WSU Vancouver and its advisory council, and some of the proceeding plans, agendas and publications from the advisory council, 1982 - 2000

The collection contains surrogates from a group of materials created and compiled by Robert (Bob) Schaefer documenting the establishment of the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education (SWJCE) and Washington State University Vancouver, Washington. Original materials were contained in six three-ringed binders, which were digitized courtesy of Robert (Bob) Schaefer. Over 1,500 pages are included in this collection, including newspaper clippings, correspondence, meeting notes, documents on higher education trends, employment and regional industry forecasts, formal reports and communications to Washington State Legislature and the public, publications from SWJCE and WSU Vancouver and other documents pertaining to each institution's establishment and early operations. The date range of items from this collection are from 1980 to the early 1990s.