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21. Oral history interview with Bernard R. Berelson, 1967
Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979
- Name: Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Carnegie grants for library studies, graduate education, behavioral science; Educational Testing Service; Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation.
22. Oral history interview with Bethuel Matthew Webster, 1968
Webster, Bethuel M. (Bethuel Matthew), 1900-1989
- Name: Webster, Bethuel M. (Bethuel Matthew), 1900-1989 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Relationship of Carnegie Corporation with Office of Scientific Research and Development and the National Defense Research Committee; recollections of Levering Tyson and Frederick Keppel.
23. Oral history interview with Blair A. Ruble, 2012
Ruble, Blair A., 1949-
- Name: Ruble, Blair A., 1949- (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 2012
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
- Abstract: Background and Early Life: birth in Beacon, New York, upbringing in Dobbs Ferry, New York, uncle Harry W. McGalliard was a politician in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, marriage to wife, Sally Ruble; Education: educated in public primary and secondary sc hools, college at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, learning Russian at Chapel Hill, Columbia University and Middlebury College, first visit to the Soviet Union in 1971, the International the International Research and exchanges Board's American Graduate Student Exchange program, doctoral studies at University of Toronto, study of labor law, relations and strikes in the Soviet Union; theme of abstraction in political science; Scholarly work: theme of post-Soviet cities: Saint Petersburg, Russia, World War II destruction, architecture, Vladimir I. Lenin, Iosif V. Stalin, Leningrad Party Affair, Moscow, Russia: wrote book on Leningrad, Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City; work at think tanks: first job at Kennan Institute, deputy director of the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, work at Social Science Research Council on Russia, Japan and Korea programs, Carnegie Corporation of New York, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation president Victor Rabinowitch, Higher Education in the Former Soviet Union, Information, Science, Education Center, navigating the Soviet system of program administration, director of Kennan Institute, Timothy J. Colton, Deana Arsenian, Andrey V. Kortunov, Susan Bronson Nancy E. Popson, Vartan Gregorian, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Vladimir V. Putin; Work with Carnegie Corporation of New York: fieldwork in Russia and the Ukraine, setting up Councils for Advancement and Support of Education or CASEs in the Caucasus region and for Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, the Ministry of Education, theme of Soviet corruption and difficulties with legalization, the Foreign Agents Law and its impact on NGOs, diplomatic relations between Russia and the U.S. and security concerns for staff, gridlock in Washington, D.C. politics.
24. Oral history interview with Bruce M. Alberts, 2012
Alberts, Bruce
- Name: Alberts, Bruce (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 2012
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
- Abstract: (b. 1938); Trustee at Carnegie Corporation of New York from 2001-2009; currently emeritus professor of biochemistry and biophysics at University of California San Francisco; childhood: born in Illinois, attended New Trier High School, influential assi gnment to discover how a television works; formal education: Harvard University, BA 1960, PhD 1965; edited science textbook; influences: James Watson, Governor Richard W. Riley, Governor Jim Hunt, Michele Cahill, Deborah Meier, David A. Hamburg, Vartan Gregorian, Sam Nunn; development of Science Education Partnership in San Francisco; elected president of National Academy of Sciences in 1993; chaired Genome Committee in 1987; development of national education standards; involvement with Carnegie Corporation in 1990s on "Years of Promise" report; invited to become a trustee at Carnegie Corporation; interplay between board members and staff; development and efficacy of programs: Small Schools movement, Teachers for a New Era, Taking Science to School, Next Generations Science Education Conceptual Framework, Opportunity Equation, Strategic Education Researcher Program; role and dynamics of the board of trustees on grant-making; involvement with Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; perspective on importance and failures of science education; comparison between No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top; travels: with Carnegie to Egypt and South Africa for libraries programs, Pakistan as science envoy for Barack Obama, India and China for Science Magazine; ethics and joys of foundation giving.
25. Oral history interview with Caryl P. Haskins 1997
Haskins, Caryl P. (Caryl Parker), 1908-2001
- Name: Haskins, Caryl P. (Caryl Parker), 1908-2001 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1997
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: born Schenectady, New York; secondary eduction: Albany Academy; Yale University, Ph.B., 1930; Harvard University: Ph.D., 1935; director, Haskins Laboratories, 1935-1955: founding in New York City with Franklin Cooper, electrochemistry and m icrobiology work; president, Carnegie Institution, 1955-1971; co-founder with Alan J. Pifer, chairperson, Haskins Committee on Board Diversity, women's role on the board; chairperson, Carnegie Board of Trustees, 1975-1980; member, National Defense Research Committee, Office of Scientific Research and Development, advising on U.S. entry into World War II; Army/Navy Scientific Advisory Policy Counselor; board member Asia Foundation; Carnegie Institute, development of proximity fuse; interest in and travel to Africa; reminiscences of colleagues.
26. Oral history interview with Caryl Parker Haskins, 1967
Haskins, Caryl P. (Caryl Parker), 1908-2001
- Name: Haskins, Caryl P. (Caryl Parker), 1908-2001 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: History of Carnegie Institution of Washington; Carnegie Corporation grant for psychophysical research, 1948; consultant for Carnegie Corporation, 1950, trustee, 1955; President, Carnegie Institution, 1956; evaluation of grants and programs; views on A ndrew Carnegie; relations between Institution and Corporation; impressions of Devereux Josephs, Charles Dollard, John Gardner, and other Carnegie officers and trustees.
27. Oral history interview with Chad Wick, 2013
Wick, Chad
- Name: Wick, Chad (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 2013
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
- Abstract: Chad Wick begins by discussing his background and education: his German-American roots; childhood in Dayton, Ohio; undergraduate engineering studies at General Motors Institute; Air Force service during the Vietnam War; and MBA studies at the Thunderb ird School of Global Management. Wick next discusses his early career and the experiences that lead to his involvement in philanthropy: his move to Cincinnati to work for PNC Bank; serving as Chairman of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center; a controversial Robert Mapplethorpe show at the Arts Center that lead to Wick’s blacklisting in the banking industry; becoming President of the Mayerson Company in 1990; and helping to create the Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation. Wick then discusses the creation and goals of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, of which he served as founding President and CEO from 1998 to 2013: working with John Pepper, CEO of Procter & Gamble to a create nonprofit focused on improving low-performing Cincinnati schools; the creation of the Student Loan Funding Corporation; Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children, a commision funded by the Carnegie Corporation; shifts in Ohio state education policy in early 1990s, the Head Start program; and Wick’s focus on changing Ohio state policy to allow more funding of professional development for early childhood educators. Wick continues by discussing the 1999 creation of the Ohio College Access Network under Governor (Robert) Bob (A.) Taft (III); strategic grants; New Visions for Public Schools; the creation of New Technology High School in Napa, California and the education initiatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and KnowledgeWorks’ acquisition of the New Tech Network of schools. Wick concludes by further discussing KnowledgeWorks’ interactions with and views on the Carnegie Corporation and some of KnowledgeWorks’ future goals and and areas of focus: Michael Levine’s work in early childcare development; working with Michele Cahill, Robert Hughes and New Visions for Public Schools; KnowledgeWorks’ board meeting with Vartan Gregorian; the Carnegie Corporation’s publication of “The Urban High School’s Challenge: Ensuring Literacy for Every Child”; the differing approaches of older and newer models of philanthropy; how the Common Core is shaping educational policy; the importance of data in promoting and shaping educational reform; the correlation between income inequality and underperforming schools; KnowledgeWorks’ focus on performance and competency-based learning and on equipping high school students with the skills necessary to succeed in college and in the job marking; education reform in Detroit and working to change the culture of the city; the importance of public-private partnerships in sparking change; and President Barack Obama’s visit to Manor New Technology High in Austin, Texas.
28. Oral history interview with Charles Dollard, 1966
Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977
- Name: Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1966
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Career with Carnegie Corporation; assistant to president, 1938-45; executive associate, 1945-47; Vice President, 1947-48; President, 1948-54; grants in social sciences; Commonwealth program; discussion of policies, program, and personnel. Impressions of Frederick Keppel, Devereux Josephs, John Gardner, Florence Anderson, and others.
29. Oral history interview with Christopher Callahan, 2012
Callahan, Christopher
- Name: Callahan, Christopher (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 2012
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
- Abstract: Dean and University Vice Provost, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University. Early Life and Background: New York City, Long Island, New York; Early Education: Boston University; Career in Journalism: Associ ated Press; Early Career in Higher Education: University of Maryland, Harvard Kennedy School; Mid-Career in Higher Education: Arizona State University, The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Michael M. Crow, Phoenix, Arizona, Tempe, Arizona, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Vartan Gregorian, Susan R. King, John and James L. Knight Foundation, Alberto Ibargü̈en, Columbia University, News21, University of California, Berkeley, Cronkite NewsWatch, Leonard Downie, Jr., Jacqueline Petchel; Observations of News Industry: Walter L. Cronkite Jr., Thomas W. Chauncey, USA Today, Allen H. Neuharth, Gannett Company, The New York Times, Washington Post, racial and gender diversity in newsrooms, Federal Communications Commission, InsideClimate News, ProPublica, Pulitzer Prizes, Cable News Network.
30. Oral history interview with Clarence Edward Beeby, 1968
Beeby, C. E. (Clarence Edward), 1902-1998
- Name: Beeby, C. E. (Clarence Edward), 1902-1998 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Carnegie Commonwealth Program in New Zealand; New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1934-63; effect on New Zealand educational policy; travel grants, museum development, public libraries, rural education, National Library Association, publicat ions, adult education.
31. Oral history interview with Clark Kerr 1998
Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003
- Name: Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1998
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: Reading, PA, farm life, family values and education; B.A. social sciences, Swarthmore College, 1932: student body president, Quaker religion; American Friends Service peace caravaner, California, summer 1932; graduate studies, Stanford Uni versity [SU]; Ph.D. economics, University of California, Berkeley [UCB]: unemployment research, labor relations interests; teaching positions SU and University of Washington; director Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley: labor union arbitrator, anti-Communist oath; first UCB chancellor, UCB president: California Master Plan for Higher Education, structuring University of California system, mass universal access to education, campus free speech movement, student protests, dismissal over police involvement; board member, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; director and chairman, Carnegie Corporation Commission on Higher Education: "Quality and Equality" 1968 report, federal government programs for financing higher education, Pell grants and student loan programs, research duties' impact on teaching quality; chairman, Carnegie Corporation Council for Policy Studies in Higher Education: high school Advanced Placement courses; member Rockefeller Foundation Board: Health Manpower Act of 1974; chairman, Work in America; reminiscences of colleagues.
32. Oral history interview with Constance McCue, 1967
McCue, Constance
- Name: McCue, Constance (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Administrative systems of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
33. Oral history interview with Cornelius De Kiewiet, 1968
De Kiewiet, C. W. (Cornelius William), 1902-1986
- Name: De Kiewiet, C. W. (Cornelius William), 1902-1986 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Carnegie Corporation program for education in developing African nations; British participation. Impressions of Alan Pifer, Stephen Stackpole, Whitney Shepardson, Charles Dollard, and John Gardner.
34. Oral history interview with D. Ellen Shuman, 2012
Shuman, D. Ellen
- Name: Shuman, D. Ellen (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 2012
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
- Abstract: Childhood: born in Illinois, raised in Washington D.C., inspired by father to contribute to society; admitted into the second class of women accepted at Bowdoin College in Maine; received a Masters of Public and Private Management at Yale University S chool of Management; interest in non-profit management developed from family values; differences in investment strategy and governance in private foundations and educational institutions; management of portfolio by the investment committee before and after the 2008 financial crisis; dynamics and interaction between the investment committee and the board of directors; grantmaking as socially responsible investing; fluctuation of purchasing power and the benefits of a stable spend rate; investment committee chairs: Vincent Mai, Marty Leibowitz, Geoffrey T. Boisi; development of investment staff; deciding to leave the Carnegie Corporation of New York; interactions with Carnegie program staff; social responsibilities of staff and board; evaluating programs quantitatively; transitioning to the leadership of Vartan Gregorian; lasting influence of Andrew Carnegie on Carnegie Corporation staff and programs; concerns about future of U.S. philanthropy: efficiency, accountability; pressure on Carnegie to act in response to world events: September 11, 2001, Hurricane Katrina, 2010 earthquake in Haiti; capital aggregation technique to yield larger return at Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; comparing: large and small foundations, educational institutions, individual pet projects, specific problem-focused foundations; investment policy shifts as a result of the 2008 financial crisis; Carnegie officer and staff compensation policies; supporting the global perspective at Carnegie with hiring practices.
35. Oral history interview with Daniel C. Matuszewski 1999
Matuszewski, Daniel C
- Name: Matuszewski, Daniel C (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1999
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood in Chicago, Polish family background; education: undergraduate at Loyola University Chicago, graduate at University of Washington and Moscow University; interest in international politics; teaching experience in Soviet studies at Rutgers Uni versity; administrative experience with International Research and Exchanges Board; description of academic exchange programs between United States [US] and Soviet Union [USSR] during Gorbachev Administration; role of Carnegie Corporation of New York in funding exchange programs; establishment of and leadership in International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity; difficulties coordinating joint US-USSR programs; role of technological development in fall of USSR; changes in structure of foundations operating in Russian Federation; role of private sector donors in foundation administration
36. Oral history interview with David A. Hamburg 1996-1998
Hamburg, David A., 1925-2019
- Name: Hamburg, David A., 1925-2019 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1996-1998
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: grandson of Latvian Jewish immigrants; education: undergraduate degree, Indiana University, medical degree, Rockefeller University; Michael Reese Hospital: internship in psychiatry, 1947-1948; Yale University: residency training, psychiatry , 1948-1949; Brooke Army Hospital, 1950-1952; Walter Reed Institute, 1952-1953: research on stress-related disorders, burn victims; Stanford University: fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, genetics research, 1957-1961, chairman, Department of Psychology, 1961-1972: development of Behavior Endocrine Genetic Responses to Stress [BEG], primate research with Jane Goodall, Tanzania; Congo hostage crisis, 1975; president, Institute of Medicine, 1975-1980: interest in children's, adolescent's health; World Health Organization [WHO], 1975-1986; professor, Harvard University, 1980-1982: formation of health policy organizations, Early LIfe Working Group; arms control: Pugwash Conference, 1978, development of crisis prevention, Cold War; Gorbachev: first meeting with, coup against; president, Carnegie Corporation, 1982-1997: formation of Starting Points Initiative, Years of Promise, Great Transitions task forces, establishment of the Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Council on Adolescent Development [CAD], Inquiry into Poverty in Southern Africa; media representation of childcare issues; Carnegie Final Report, 1998; relationships with presidents from Gerald R. Ford to Bill Clinton; reflections on leadership, role of foundations.
37. Oral history interview with David C. Speedie 1999
Speedie, David C., 1946-
- Name: Speedie, David C., 1946- (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1999
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: born Stirling, Scotland; University of Saint Andrews: M.A., English, 1964-1968, B.Phil., English, faculty position, Middle English, Anglo-Saxon studies; Kennedy fellowship, Harvard University, 1971-1972; bicentennial coordinator, United Sta tes Embassy, Washington, D.C.; head of Cultural Affairs Council, Philadelphia; W. Alton Jones Foundation: program officer, development of New American Plays, Secure World programs; Carnegie Corporation, 1992-present: program officer, post-Cold War studies, promotion to program chair; philosophy of grantmaking; differences among American, European philanthropies; diversity in foundation staff; reminiscences of colleagues.
38. Oral history interview with David P. Weikart 1998
Weikart, David P
- Name: Weikart, David P (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1998
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: born Youngstown, Ohio, son of social workers; Oberlin College: B.A., psychology, 1949-1953; service in United States Marine Corps, 1953-1955; University of Michigan: Ph.D., education and psychology, 1956-1958; psychologist, chief diagnostic ian, MIchigan public school system; interest in early childhood education; formation of High/Scope Perry Study: research on education of economically disadvantaged preschool children, funding from Carnegie Corporation; experiments in infant education; changes in grantmaking philosophy; reminiscences of colleagues.
39. Oral history interview with David Riesman, 1968
Riesman, David, 1909-2002
- Name: Riesman, David, 1909-2002 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Initial Carnegie Corporation-funded work on national policy study at Yale University; funding the publication of study findings, 1947-1949; publication of THE LONELY CROWD: A STUDY OF THE CHANGING AMERICAN CHARACTER, 1950; FACES IN THE CROWD: INDIVIDU AL STUDIES IN CHARACTER AND POLITICS, 1952; community studies in Kansas City; INDIVIDUALISM RECONSIDERED, 1953; TIME Magazine cover, 1954; Bureau of Applied Research, 1955; Carnegie grant for study on higher education; CONSTRAINT AND VARIETY IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1956; work for Fund for the Republic. Thoughts on being a Carnegie grant recipient; impact of grants on his work; the grant-seeking process; the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); CARNEGIE QUARTERLY; geographical distribution of grants; Henry S. Reuss’ committee on research and development; funding of politically divisive research; controversy surrounding Harvard University’s Russian Research Center; McCarthyist investigation of researchers; Carnegie’s task force on the role of states. Impressions of John W. Gardner, Everett C. Hughes, Harold D. Lasswell, Eugene V. Rostow.
40. Oral history interview with David Z. Robinson 1998
Robinson, David Z., 1927-
- Name: Robinson, David Z., 1927- (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1998
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: Montreal; Harvard University: A.B., 1946, A.M., 1947, Ph.D. Chemical Physics, 1949; Americans for Democratic Action, Vice President of Cambridge chapter; Assistant Director for Research Study, Baird Associates, 1949-1959; Office for Naval R esearch, London, 1959-1960; member of the Optical Society to the International Commission for Optics; Office of the Scientific Advisor to the President, Science Advisory Committee, Communications Satellite Act, Air Traffic Control, White House-Kremlin hotline, liaison to the Ramsey Panel, liaison to National Science Foundation, 1961-1967; Vice President for Academic Affairs, New York University, student activities during Vietnam War era, 1967-1970; Vice President, Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1970-1980; Board of Trustees of City University of New York, 1976-1981; Executive Vice President of Carnegie Corporation, 1981-1985; Executive V.P. Treasurer, Carnegie Corporation, 1988-1997; Director, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, Government, 1988-1997; panel member, President's Science Advisory Committee on Hijacking; member, Naval Research Advisory Committee; member, Governor Hugh Carey's Task Force of Higher Education; reminiscences of colleagues.