Changes in curricula, students, faculty, and teaching styles in the art departments at the University of Iowa and Indiana University, 1940 to 1949

World War II veterans, GI Bill educational benefits, emigre professors, and young art instructors and administrators made substantial changes in the Fine Arts Departments at the University of Iowa and Indiana University. This study focuses on curricula, students, faculty, and teaching styles from 1940 to 1949.;Fine Arts Department directors Lester D. Longman at Iowa and Henry R. Hope at Indiana made curricular changes by establishing exemplary and innovative graduate studio programs that emphasized equal amounts of studio and art history. Their purposes included preparation of graduates to be instructors and administrators. Professional artists and art historians from the East Coast and abroad were hired to assist in development of the directors' goals.;Questions addressed in this dissertation include those concerned with what curricular changes were proposed, what changes were made, what factors caused them, what other changes took place when the veterans returned to campuses and new faculty arrived to instruct them, and what changes did emigre professors make. Answers to these questions were sought in interviews with former students, faculty, and administrators. Their responses were substantiated by information from archival sources and published material.;Research included study of factors that increased perceived student enthusiasm during the late 1940s. The excitment and innovations mentioned by former participants in changes at Iowa and Indiana were products of the synergism of postwar optimism, veterans grateful for educational benefits from the GI Bill, the pressure of limited time for the veterans to complete their college programs, and the enthusiasm of young faculty and administrators committed to developing new approaches to fine arts education.