doi:10.7916/d8-z4f7-1a53Oral history interview with Walter Adams, 1968Adams, Walter, 1906-1975oral historiesmixed materialAdult educationUniversities and colleges--UgandaUniversities and colleges--NigeriaUniversities and colleges--JamaicaAdams, Walter, 1906-1975Carnegie Corporation of New YorkInter-University Council for Higher Education OverseasMakerere University HistoryUniversity of Ibadan. Department of Library Studies HistoryUniversity of the West Indies HistoryEarly involvement with Carnegie Corporation as part of efforts to relocate scholars from Nazi Germany and Austria, 1933-1938; involvement with Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas, 1943-1946; post-war development of universities in Africa and Caribbean under Carnegie Corporation's British Dominions and Colonies Fund; establishment of Institute of Education at University of East Africa (now Makerere University); library school at University of Ibadan; creation of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica; touring American universities with Sally Chilvers of Colonial Social Research Council; thoughts on land-grant universities, adult education, and the distinctions between American and British education. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Whitney H. Shepardson, Stephen Henry Stackpole.