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1. Chart, showing inability of the Carnegie Foundation to meet expectations under the free pension plan.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: manuscripts
- Date: [1916]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: For the first few years of the CFAT's existence, its principal function was in selecting eligible institutions and establishing rules for receiving retirement allowances. The resulting financial obligations ended up being greatly in excess of CFAT re sources, and were only fulfilled by 1973, after spending over 6 million dollars of CFAT endowment and a 15 million dollar loan from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
2. Columbia University List of Faculty
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: correspondence
- Date: August 1905
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
3. The Graduate Records Examination. Cover page
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1941
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Graduate Records Examination grew out of the project for the CFAT in the early 1930s to study the outcomes of college education. Carnegie Corporation of New York played a key role in funding the study, and then helping to accommodate the test to new r ealities after World War II, when a much larger student body began to pursue graduate degrees.
4. Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Title page
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: books
- Date: 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: This report by Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) described 155 U.S. and Canadian medical schools, examined the state of American medical education and led to dramatic changes in the way doctors were trained, and influenced many studies of academic quality.
5. Meeting of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Board of Trustees
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1912
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie initially selected 25 trustees to administer the Carnegie Foundation, primarily presidents of major universities, and presidents of "colleges of both the older and the younger type." Robert A. Franks, Thomas Morrison Carnegie, and Fr ank A. Vanderlip were the only three members of the Board with no academic affiliations.
6. Mounted checks issued by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: legal documents
- Date: 1905, 1906
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: In April 1905, Andrew Carnegie announced the creation of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), a $10,000,000 pension fund for teachers in institutions of higher education (with additional five million dollars added in 1908 to pro vide pensions for teachers in state colleges). These mounted checks were issued to the Foundation's own executives: H. S. Pritchett, the CFAT president and Charles W. Eliot, the Harvard University President and the first CFAT Board Chairman. The third check is for William T. Harris, the United States Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, and one of the 30 founding members of the Simplified Spelling Board.
7. Typed letter, signed, to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: January 13, 1913
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: In this letter Carnegie announces a new Division of Educational Research within the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching with its own $1,250,000 endowment.