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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. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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
10. 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.
11. 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
12. 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.
13. Typed letter signed to Louise Whitfield Carnegie
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
- Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 17, 1945
- Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
14. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray Butler
Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
- Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 11, 1945
- Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
15. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray. Butler
Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
- Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 11, 1945
- Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
16. Record of Interview with Frederick P. Keppel
Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977
- Name: Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977 (Interviewer)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: April 15, 1942
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 74
- Abstract: The former Carnegie Corporation president Frederick P. Keppel and the future Carnegie Corporation president Charles Dollard discuss the origins of the Economic and Social History of the World War project.
17. 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.
18. Carnegie Corporation Donations Volume "C"
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: legal documents
- Date: [between 1938 and 1939]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 489
- Abstract: This volume contains listing and brief descriptions of donations to most Carnegie Charities, and other grantees, whose names start with "C" (including Columbia University). Just between 1911 and 1941 Columbia received $3,352,498 in Carnegie Corporat ion grants, making it the third largest Carnegie grantee among the institutions of higher education (after Carnegie-Mellon and Vanderbilt).
19. Catalog of the Music Study Materials
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: January 1937
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 233
- Abstract: Distributing the “College Art Sets” and the “College Music Sets” to hundreds of institutions in the United States and British Commonwealth has been one of significant initiatives by the Carnegie Corporation during the 1920s-1930s. The art sets contain ed approximately 200 art history books, 1,500 mounted photographs of architecture, sculpture and painting, and small collections of original prints and textiles, all housed in specially made wood cabinet. The music sets contained an electric phonograph, over 800 records housed in a cabinet, 250 bound scores, and 129 books on musical subjects. The contents varied slightly over the years. More modest art sets were also distributed to secondary schools.
20. Report of the President on Visit to Southern British Dominions. Front cover
Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
- Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1935
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Box no. 4
- Abstract: The overseas program of the Corporation was greatly expanded after Frederick Keppel and James Bertram undertook a trip to Africa in 1927. The travel reports, such as this Keppel's 1935 Report on Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa shown here, not only set forth priorities for the Corporation's grant making but also provided valuable information on the social conditions and the state of education in the region.