 The "coordinate" school proposal circulated on January 31, 1930 as Letters and Science Document 44, and was unanimously approved by the college faculty in February and by the university faculty in April.The regents approved the proposal later in April, and the School opened for the 1930 academic year with Anderson as dean.Historians E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins wrote in their 1994 history of the university that the School gained esteem apace and remained close with the College of Letters and Science.