Kate Hevner Mueller

Kate Hevner Mueller
Born	(1898-11-01)November 1, 1898 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, US
Died	August 10, 1984(1984-08-10) (aged 85)
Nationality	American
Education	Ph.D.
Alma mater	Wilson College Columbia University University of Chicago
Occupation	Psychologist
Spouse	John Mueller (1935–1965)

Kate Hevner Mueller (November 1, 1898 – August 10, 1984) was an American psychologist and educator who served as dean of women at Indiana University during 1938–1949.

Biography

Born Kate Lucile Hevner in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, she was the second daughter and middle child to a minister father and a schoolteacher mother. She attended Williamsport High School then matriculated in 1916 to Wilson College, where she majored in English with a minor in French. She graduated in 1920 with a Bachelor of Arts with honors. During her junior year she took a course in psychology, where she developed an interest in the subject.

Returning to her home town of Williamsport, she taught mathematics at the local high school until 1922. She then enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University to study psychology, receiving a masters in 1923. She became an instructor at Wilson, teaching mathematics and psychology up until 1926 when she applied for a fellowship to study at the University of Chicago under L. L. Thurstone. In 1928 she finished her thesis, An Empirical Study of Three Psychophysical Methods, and was awarded a doctoral degree in Psychology.

In 1929 she joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. During the summer of 1931, she journeyed to the University of Oregon to perform research on aesthetics. While there, she met her future husband, John Mueller. In 1935, she resigned from Minnesota to join her husband at Indiana University, where he became an associate professor. After teaching part-time at the IU extension campus in Indianapolis, Mueller became dean of women at Indiana in 1938, taking over the office from Agnes E. Wells who was retiring for health reasons.

Within six months after the end of World War II, there was a large influx of new students on the campus. University President Herman B Wells took this opportunity to reorganize student affairs. Mueller was summarily demoted to assistant dean, serving as senior women's councilor, while head of the newly formed Dean of Students Office went to an ex-military man. Mueller was not consulted about the change and was only informed about it by a junior male colleague. This act of replacing older female deans with former military members was happening elsewhere across the country.

Mueller resigned from the Office of Dean of Women in 1949, wherein she joined the education department as an associate professor. She later taught graduate courses in Personnel and Guidance, establishing the Master's Program in College Student Personnel during the 1950s. She served as President of the Esthetics Division of the American Psychological Association during 1951–1952. She was named full professor in 1954. From 1960 until 1969, she was the editor of the NAWDAC Journal. In 1965, her husband reached the mandatory retirement age, then died two months later from cancer. Despite the loss, Kate Hevner Mueller continued to teach at Indiana until her retirement in 1969, then spent a year teaching at University of Florida.

Awards and honors

• A 1959 Women's News Service Poll named her as one of 70 women qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States.
• 1978 George D. Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research and Literature Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
• 1982 Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Women Deans, Administrators, and Councillors (NAWDAC).
• 1963 Mills College Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
• The Indiana University Kate Hevner Mueller Senior Award was founded in 2013 in her honor. These are given to "IU seniors who have proven leadership on campus both inside and outside of the classroom and who have improved the IU community by their presence".

Further reading

• Wood, Karen (March 2016), "Leading Hoosier Women in Wartime: How Kate Hevner Mueller Prepared Collegiate Coeds for World War II", Studies in Indiana Women's History, Session 8: College Women at Work (PDF), Indiana Historical Bureau, retrieved 2019-03-03.
• "Kate Hevner Mueller (speaker)", Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara Library, retrieved 2019-02-25.

Published works

The following is a list of Dr. Mueller's published works:

• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1928), "A Comparative Study of Three Psychophysical Methods", Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago.
• Hevner, Kate (1932), "A method of correcting for guessing in true-false tests and empirical evidence in support of IT.", Journal of Social Psychology, 3 (3): 359–362, doi:10.1080/00224545.1932.9919159.
• Hevner, Kate; Mueller, John H. (1939), "The effectiveness of various types of art appreciation aids", The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 34 (1): 63, doi:10.1037/h0059214.
• Mueller, John Henry; Hevner, Kate (1942), Trends in musical taste.
• Evans, M. C.; Mueller, K. H. (1943), A Study of Indiana University Alumnae, 1933-1941, Indiana University.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1944), "Personnel Trends in Universities", Journal of the National Association of Deans of Women, 7: 73–76.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1949), "Problems in counseling women", Trends in Student Personnel Work: 356–370.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner; Mueller, John H. (1949), "Socio-Economic Background of Women Students at Indiana University", Educational and Psychological Measurement, 9 (3): 321–329, doi:10.1177/001316444900900308, S2CID 140525402.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner; Mueller, John H. (1953), "Class structure and academic and social success", Educational and Psychological Measurement, 13 (3): 486–496, doi:10.1177/001316445301300313, S2CID 144126022.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1952), "Training for Citizenship: through student activities", The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 31 (3): 162–166, doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1952.tb01428.x.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1953), "Can cheating be killed?", The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 31 (7): 465–468, doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1953.tb01506.x.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1954), "Review of An objective psychology of music. [Review of the book An objective psychology of music", Journal of Applied Psychology, 38 (3): 206, doi:10.1037/h0052067.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1954), Educating Women for a Changing World, University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 9780816690480, JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctttsp3j.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1954), "Sex Differences In Campus Regulations", The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 32 (9): 528–532, doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1954.tb00924.x.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (April 1, 1956), "Studies in Music Appreciation", Journal of Research in Music Education, 4 (1): 3–25, doi:10.2307/3343835, JSTOR 3343835, S2CID 143169705.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1956), "Problems in the Discipline Program", The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 34 (7): 413–416, doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1956.tb02455.x.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1958), The Social Psychology of Music, p. 133.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (January 1958), "Theory for Campus Discipline", Journal of Counseling and Development, 36 (5): 302–309, doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1958.tb01051.x.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1959), "Criteria for evaluating professional status", The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 37 (6): 410–417, doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1959.tb01242.x.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1959), The Cultural Pressures on Women.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1960), "The married student on the campus", College and University, 35 (2): 155–163.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1961), Student personnel work in higher education, Houghton Mifflin.
• Mueller, K. H. (1961), College Personnel Work as a Profession, ASHE Reader Series, Needham Heights, MA.: Simon & Schster Custom Publishing.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1963), "Some Problems of Recruiting in College Personnel", Journal of College Student Development, 4 (4): 215–219.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1963), "The Role of the Counselor in Sex Behavior and Standards", Journal of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, 26 (2): 3–5.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1964), "Challenges to Tradition in Student Personnel Work", Journal of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, 27 (2): 51–54.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (March 1, 1964), "The Aesthetic Experience and Psychological Man", Journal of Music Therapy, 1 (1): 8–10, doi:10.1093/jmt/1.1.8.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner; Myers, Florence C. (1965), "Married Girls and Unmarried Mothers In the High School", National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, 28: 120–125
• Mueller, K. H. (1966), "The Future of the Campus Personnel Worker", National Association of Women Deans and Counselors Journal, 3: 81.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1966), Wattenberg, William W. (ed.), Programs for Deviant Girls, p. 353.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1966), "Education, the realistic approach", The challenge to women, New York: Basic Books.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1966), "Three Dilemmas of the Student Personnel Profession and Their Resolution", Journal of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, 29 (2): 81–91.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner; et al. (1966), "The Adult Woman: Her History, Place in Society, Psychology Education", Counseling Techniques for Mature Women: Report: 28.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1967), "Educational issues and the training of student personnel workers", NASPA Journal, 4 (4): 167–170, doi:10.1080/00220973.1967.11071043.
• Butler, Janet Wydom; Daston, Paul G. (1968), "Musical consonance as musical preference: A cross-cultural study", The Journal of General Psychology, 79 (1): 129–142, doi:10.1080/00221309.1968.9710460, PMID 5672277.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (1973), Twenty-seven Major American Symphony Orchestras: A History and Analysis of Their Repertoires, Seasons 1842-43 Through 1969-70, Indiana University Studies.
• Long, Newell H.; Mueller, Kate Hevner (1974), Indiana-Oregon music discrimination test, Coronet.
• Mueller, K. H. (1977), "The Women's Liberation Movement: What Delayed Its Impact?", Journal of the NAWDAC, 40 (2): 43–45.
• Mueller, Kate Hevner (Jan 23, 2015), American Symphony Orchestra Repertoires 1842-1970 (Data Set), Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, doi:10.3886/ICPSR35235.v1.