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1. Higher Education in Tanzania: A Case Study. Front cover
Mkude, Daniel J.
- Name: Mkude, Daniel J. (Author) Cooksey, Brian (Author) Levey, Lisbeth A. (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 2003
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.G.. Box no. 9
- Abstract: This publication was produced by the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA), a coordinated initiative of grant-making support to strengthen African universities among seven United States-based philanthropic foundations in 2000-2010, bringin g Carnegie Corporation's educational initiatives to the twenty-first century.
2. South Africa: the Cordoned Heart. Front cover
Badsha, Omar
- Name: Wilson, Francis, 1939- (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: May 1986
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. CO
- Abstract: Following Afrikaner political ascendance in 1951, the Corporation ceased grantmaking in South Africa for more than two decades. The Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa (the first one, focused on the poor white popul ation, was conducted in the 1930s) created to examine the legacies of apartheid and to make recommendations on achieving a democratic, interracial society, was started in the mid-1970s. One of the projects, funded by the Inquiry, this collection of 136 pictures taken by 20 South African photographers poignantly documents the evils of apartheid. It is accompanied by valuable text from presentations made at Carnegie-sponsored 1984 Cape Town conference.
3. Lagos University Meeting of Association of Teacher Education in Africa
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1973
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.D. From Grant Files. Box no. 2
- Abstract: The Carnegie-sponsored Ashby commission of 1959-1960 indicated a vital need for further development of postsecondary education, and had the effect of stimulating widespread aid to African nations’ systems of higher and professional education. The gr ants from Carnegie Corporation of New York played a major role in supporting major African universities.
4. Report submitted to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Front cover
Children's Television Workshop
- Name: Children's Television Workshop (Author)
- Format: corporation reports
- Date: 1973
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 489
- Abstract: A 1966 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant to study the feasibility of entertaining and teaching through television launched and funded the Children's Television Workshop, the producer of Sesame Street, the Electric Company and other noted children 's educational programs that revolutionized children's television The Corporation has been its supporter ever since.
5. The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial Museum
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: printed ephemera
- Date: March, 1972
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum and cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland, where he was born on November 25, 1835, the son of a handloom weaver. Andrew's first-ever public gift was for Dunfermline, when he donate £5,000 in 1874 for the "Carnegie Baths" recreation and health club, followed by his 1880 gift for a public library.
6. Certificate of Appreciation for Carnegie Corporation
Smithsonian Institution
- Name: Smithsonian Institution (Author)
- Format: legal documents
- Date: [1972]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
- Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York donated the Carnegie Mansion and property to the Smithsonian Institution in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opened there in 1976.
7. Typed letter signed to Alan Pifer
Kirk, Grayson L. (Grayson Louis), 1903-1997
- Name: Kirk, Grayson L. (Grayson Louis), 1903-1997 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: February 12, 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
- Abstract: In 1963 the New York School of Social Work was fully merged into Columbia University as the Columbia University School of Social Work. It eventually moved to the McVicar Hall (the building that now houses Columbia Alumni Center) on Morningside Campus , in accordance with the plans, indicated in this letter by Columbia University president Grayson Kirk to Carnegie Corporation president Alan Pifer.
8. Typed letter signed to Alan Pifer
Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978
- Name: Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 18, 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 658
- Abstract: Carnegie Corporation funded a new building for the Julliard School as part of the Lincoln Center project. In this letter John D. Rockefeller updates Carnegie Corporation President Alan Pifer on the progress of the project. In 1969 the Julliard School moved into the new building from its earlier location on Claremont Avenue at 120th Street in Morningside Heights.
9. Ph.D.'s and the Academic Labor Market. Cover page; A Report Prepared for The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
Cartter, Allan M. (Allan Murray), 1922-1976
- Format: books
- Date: 1968-1980
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Boxes 120, 128, 141
- Abstract: In 1967 the CFAT received a Carnegie Corporation grant to study the various aspects of contemporary higher education. Clark Kerr, then the president of the University of California, agreed to chair the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Over th e course of their existence, the Commission, and its successor organization the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education assembled a wealth of data and published 163 influential monographs, and dozens of pamphlets and brochures.
10. Public Television, a Program for Action: the report and recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television. Front cover
Carnegie Commission on Educational Television
- Name: Carnegie Commission on Educational Television (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material
- Abstract: Growing recognition of the power of TV as an educator prompted formation of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, whose recommendations were adopted in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the public broadcasting system.
11. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Front
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 527
12. Ghana University of - Conference on University adult education in Africa
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1966]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
- Abstract: This Carnegie-sponsored project ties the Corporation's support to African Universities with its long-standing commitment to adult education.
13. Columbia University Grant Report -- Conference on the African University and National Educational Development. Cover page
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: between September 8 and 18, 1964
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 39
- Abstract: The first donations to Columbia University (Astronomy Observatory, Teachers College, College of Pharmacy, etc.) were made by Andrew Carnegie himself and go back to the early 1900s. The Corporation has worked with Columbia ever since, with total donat ions exceeding 20 million dollars. This is a small sample of reports, produced by various Columbia University affiliates under Carnegie Corporation grants.
14. Carnegie Corporation Commonwealth Program 1911-1961. Front cover
Stackpole, Stephen H.
- Name: Stackpole, Stephen H. (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 1962
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Box no. 2
- Abstract: Carnegie earmarked a portion of the endowment to be used for philanthropic purposes in Canada and what were then the British Colonies. This part of the endowment was first known as the Special Fund, then the British Dominions and Colonies Fund, and la ter the Commonwealth Program. Under the name of the International Program it continued until the early 1980s.
15. Columbia University Grant Report -- Bureau of Applied Social Research, Review of Educational Testing. Cover page
- Format: books
- Date: [Summer 1961]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 38
16. Carnegie Quarterly, Volume VIII, Number 3. Page 1
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: periodicals
- Date: 1960
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Vol 29
- Abstract: In addition to annual reports, the Carnegie Corporation produced other periodic publications, presenting a more detailed description of Carnegie-sponsored projects in a variety of fields. This issue of Carnegie Quarterly is dedicated to the topic of the post-colonial higher education system in the West Indies.
17. Columbia University Grant Report -- The Educational Future of Columbia University. Cover page
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: 1957
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 38
18. Record of Interview with John D. Rockefeller, 3rd
Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002
- Name: Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 (Interviewer)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: September 13, 1956
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 658
- Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York President John Gardner and John D. Rockefeller, 3rd discuss possible participation of the Corporation in the Lincoln Center project.
19. Meeting of Inter-University Council for Higher Education Colonial and Dominion Principals
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: June 1955
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.D. From Grant Files. Box no. 1
- Abstract: The Inter-University Council for Higher Education council was established in 1946 by joint action of the British universities to promote the foundation and expansion of universities in what was then British colonial territories. Extensive grant files for the Council in the Carnegie Corporation archives provide rich information about the period and the dynamics of transition from British rule to independence.
20. Notice of Agreement between Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Community Service Society
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: legal documents
- Date: January 20, 1949
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
- Abstract: In January 1949 Charles Dollard, president of the Carnegie Corporation, announced that the house and garden would be transferred to the New York School of Social Work through its parent organization, the Community Service Society. The roots of the Ne w York School of Social Work trace to 1898 as a summer course offered by the New York Charity Organization Society. Six years later it was transformed into a graduate program, originally named the New York School of Philanthropy. The name was changed to the New York School of Social Work in 1917.