Central Files: Personal Name Subseries with Notes
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Central Files: Personal Name Subseries with Notes Aalto, Alvar, file, 1964. (1 folder) 673/26 10/1964-11/1964 Records regarding an honorary degree from Columbia University that was awarded to Alvar Aalto, a Finnish architect and designer. Records include correspondence and a newspaper clipping. Abel, Elie, file, 1969-1971. (1 folder) 509/19 12/1969-6/1971 Correspondence between Elie Abel, Jeffery Loubat Professor and dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and high level University administrators. Correspondence relates to the school. Topics include: faculty appointments, funding for the school, and budgeting. Abel, Theodore Fred, file, 1947-1948. (1 folder) 668/39 8/1947-5/1948 Correspondence between Theodore Fred Abel, professor of sociology and executive officer of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, and the provost and secretary of the University. Correspondence relates to the department. Topics include faculty appointments, and budgeting. Abrams, Charles, file, 1966-1967. (1 folder) 36 /21 12/1966-8/1967 Correspondence between Charles Abrams and Columbia University administrators. Abrams was a professor of urban planning and director of the Institute of Urban Environment in the School of Architecture. Records relate to the institute, the school, and urban planning. Records include: correspondence regarding efforts to acquire grant funding for a study of urban minority problems to be conducted by the institute and the Division of Urban Planning; a copy of "The City," Abrams' address at the University of Chicago; a report by Abrams for the Community Renewal Program; and reports regarding urban renewal in Philadelphia and the use of computers by the urban planning division. Ackerman, Carl W., files, 1931-1956. (46 folders) 360/4-18 1/1931-12/1947 361/1-19 1/1948-6/1953 362/1-12 7/1953-9/1956 Correspondence between Carl W. Ackerman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and the president and other high level administrators of the University. Also includes correspondence between Ackerman and publishers and journalists from the United States and South America. Records relate to four main subjects: the Graduate School of Journalism, the Pulitzer Prizes, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, and journalism and journalists in the United States and South America. Topics related to the Graduate School of Journalism include: budgeting, faculty affairs, faculty appointments, teaching loads, gifts to the school, events, and the management of special funds. Includes: school budgets; correspondence and a proposal (ca. 1934-1935) regarding the establishment of graduate programs in the school; and reports and correspondence (ca. 1943-1946) regarding a school of journalism in China, which was sponsored by the University. Also includes a report, dating from 1937, which discusses the journalism school's relationship with the Columbia Daily Spectator. The records also include correspondence, proposals, and reports (ca. 1946-1951) regarding the establishment, funding, and administration of the American Press Institute, a professional development and education program for journalists. Also, correspondence and reports regarding the effect of radio on journalism education (ca. 1937) and the work of the printed: 06/02/09 University's Radio Committee (ca. 1938). Also, reports and correspondence regarding the Pulitzer Prizes. Related topics include: the nomination and selection of Pulitzer Prize recipients, the work of the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer Prizes, and administrative and financial issues regarding the prizes. Includes jury reports and correspondence regarding the "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse." Also, correspondence and reports regarding the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes. Related topics include: the establishment of the prizes, the nomination and selection of recipients, and administrative issues relating to the prizes. Includes correspondence with the Cabot family. In addition, Ackerman made a number of trips to South America to meet with journalists and promote journalism. The records include correspondence regarding South American newspapers and journalists as well as correspondence and reports regarding Ackerman's tours of South America during the 1930s and 1940s. Adams, Charles M., file, 1943-1945. (1 folder) 387/20 7/1943-6/1945 Correspondence between Charles M. Adams, assistant to the director of the libraries at Columbia University, and the provost of the University. Correspondence and reports relate to the appraisal and acquisition of library collections. Includes volume one, number 1 of Library Columns (November, 1943). Also, reports and minutes (ca. March, 1944) regarding the use of Low Memorial Library as an administration building. These reports relate to recommendations regarding the library that had been made in the "Coykendal" report of 1935. Adams, Edward D., file, 1899-1918. (1 folder) 317/1 3/1899-6/1918 Correspondence between Edward D. Adams, president of the Germanistic Society of America, and the president and secretary of Columbia University regarding Deutsches Haus, Columbia's German cultural and educational center. Topics include: the purchase of Deutsches Haus and the effect of World War I on the center and on education in German culture. Also, correspondence and deeds of gift documenting the establishment of the Ernest Kempton Adams Fund for Physical Research, the management of special funds, and a gift to the University of scientific instruments. Adams, Henry A., file, 1954-1955. (1 folder) 671/14 12/1954-2/1955 Correspondence regarding a formal complaint the was brought against Columbia University by Henry A. Adams, a student who did not receive credit for a course. Includes a copy of the petition which was filed with the New York State Department of Education. Adams, John C., file, 1947-1948. (1 folder) 668/40 9/1947-3/1948 Correspondence between John C. Adams and high level administrators at Columbia University. Adams was president of Hofstra University and the secretary and treasurer of the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York. Correspondence relates to the association's involvement in issues affecting higher education. Topics include discrimination in higher education and proposals for a state University. Includes a transcript of a hearing before the State of New York Temporary Commission on the Need for a State University (October, 1947) and a copy of the Austin Mahoney anti-discrimination bill. Adams, L. Carroll (Louis Carroll), file, 1953-1954. (1 folder) 670/22 7/1953-5/1954 2 printed: 06/02/09 Correspondence between Louis Carroll Adams of the Department of Physical Education at Columbia University, and University administrators. Correspondence relates to the use of the University gymnasium by students from the Julliard School. Includes a booklet on requirements and procedures for the physical education program. Adenauer, Konrad, file, 1954. (1 folder) 671/15 7/1954-10/1954 Records regarding the honorary degree from Columbia University that was awarded to Konrad Adenauer, the Chancellor of the West German Republic. The degree was awarded as part of the University's 1954 bicentennial celebration. Adler, Felix, file, 1902-1910. (1 folder) 659/1 4/1902-5/1910 Correspondence between Felix Adler, professor of social and political ethics in the Faculty of Philosophy at Columbia University, and University president Nicholas Murray Butler. Correspondence relates to the establishment of a professorship of social and political ethics and Adler's appointment to the post in 1902. Correspondence also relates to Adler's term as Roosevelt Professor during 1908 and 1909. The Roosevelt Professorship sent an American professor to Germany to lecture and act as an educational and cultural emissary. Agger, Eugene Ewald, file, 1911-1918. (1 folder) 664/30 5/1911-6/1918 Correspondence between Eugene Ewald Agger, associate professor of economics at Columbia University, and the president and secretary of the University. Most of the correspondence relates to Agger's work as executive secretary of the Intercollegiate War Loan and Savings Committee of the Federal Reserve and his efforts to raise funds for the government during World War I. Agron, Norma, file, 1965. (1 folder) 54 /31 1/1965-9/1965 Correspondence regarding the mental and physical health of a student in the School of General Studies. Aguirre y Lecube, Jose Antonio de, file, 1942-1946. (1 folder) 668/22 8/1942-12/1946 Correspondence between Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube, a lecturer in history at Columbia University, and University administrators. Correspondence relates to his five-year stay at Columbia and his return to Spain in order to support the Basque separatist movement. Albertson, Fred W., files, 1945. (2 folders) 389/17-18 7/1945-8/1945 Records sent to the Columbia University administration by Fred W. Albertson. Records relate to Columbia's application for an FM radio license. Includes a proposal for operating a radio station as well as University by-laws and other records which were assembled in support of Columbia's application. Alderman, Edwin Anderson, file, 1904-1909. (1 folder) 659/2 2/1902-3/1909 Correspondence between Edwin Anderson Alderman and the president and secretary of Columbia University. Alderman was president of Tulane University and later became president of the University of Virginia. Correspondence relates to a range of subjects. Topics include: Butler's invitation for Alderman to attend his installation in 1902, Columbia's merger with the College