President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University (Macmahon Report), 1936-1958

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Series II: "Non-Committee" Files

This terms was used to identify the reports, studies and other background materials used by the Committee, but not generated by the Committee. This extensive library includes reports from Columbia and other Universities.



Box 6 Folder 33 Academic Standing, Chicago Tribune Article, 1955 May 5


Box 6 Folder 34 Admissions - Organization. Report to Vice President and Provost Grayson Kirk on the Organization of the Office of the Registrar and the Office of University Admissions by Frederick E. Croxton, 1952 June 30


Box 6 Folder 35 Admissions - Report of Director to the Advisory Committee on Educational Policy., 1956


Box 6 Folder 36 Alumni Views of Columbia. A Report on a Exploratory Study. Bureau of Applied Social Research, 1954 October


Box 6 Folder 37 Appointment and Promotion, Committee on. Report on Procedures, 1953 January 27


Box 6 Folder 38 Bureau of Applied Social Research, 1951-1957


Box 6 Folder 39 Business, Graduate School of. Report of the Committee on the Future Development of., 1955 April


Box 6 Folder 40 Columbia College, Report of the Committee on the Future Size of, 1956


Box 6 Folder 41 Columbia College Class of 1921, Survey of the Relationship of Columbia College to Columbia University., 1941


Box 6 Folder 42 Committee on the State of the University, Reports to the, 1950 September-November

By department


Box 6 Folder 43 Committee on the State of the University, Reports of Columbia College Departments to the, 1950


Box 6 Folder 44 Committee on the State of the University, Report of the Faculty of Medicine to the, 1950

The Future of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center


Box 6 Folder 45 Committee on the State of the University, Report of the Director of the School of International Affairs, 1951 March 26


Box 6 Folder 46 Committee on the State of the University, Report of the Pure Science Subcommittee, 1950 December

Science at Columbia


Box 6 Folder 47 Committee on University Education for the Professions, Report to the University Council by its, 1955 October 15

Also known as the Cheatham Report


Box 6 Folder 48 University Committee on International, Foreign and Comparative Law, Report of, 1953 October15


Box 6 Folder 49 Early Admission, Report to the Fund for the Advancement of Education from Columbia college on the Program for, 1955 August


Box 6 Folder 50 Economics, Some Questions for the February 8 Meeting on Graduate Instruction in, 1957 January 30


Box 6 Folder 51 Engineering for the Future at Columbia: A Study of Fluid Mechanics Courses and Needs, 1955 October


Box 6 Folder 52 Faculty Representation in University Policy, Possibilities for, 1952 December 1


Box 6 Folder 53 Foreign Students, Preliminary Report of the Committee for the Study of the Responsibility of Columbia University Toward, 1946 June

Includes foreign student enrollment figures from 1945-1946 to 1955-1956



Box 7 Folder 1 General Studies, Report of the Study of Graduates of the School of, 1947-1952


Box 7 Folder 2 General Studies - A College for Adults, 1956

Bureau of Applied Social Research


Box 7 Folder 3 Committee of Fifteen. The Graduate School Today and Tomorrow, 1955 December

Reflections for the Profession's Consideration. Written by F.W. Strothmann on behalf of the Committee of Fifteen


Box 7 Folder 4 Government Aided Research Program, Report of Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the, 1956 March 27


Box 7 Folder 5 Graduate Faculties, Report of Conference on Reorganization of the, 1947 February 11

Also known as the "Evans Report" for Austin P. Evans


Box 7 Folder 6 Graduate Faculties, Reorganization Committee, papers, 1948


Box 7 Folder 7 Medical Sciences at Columbia, 1952 November


Box 7 Folder 8 Medical Center, The Staffing of the Columbia-Presbyterian, 1956 March

Joint Report of the Faculty of Medicine of Columbia University and the Medical Board of Presbyterian Hospital


Box 7 Folder 9 Medical Education, A Proposed Revision of, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1956 May 12


Box 7 Folder 10 Psychology at Columbia: Plans for the Future, 1957

By Professor William J. McGill


Box 7 Folder 11 Research and Patent Problems by Archie M. Palmer; and The Production of Technical Knowledge in Relation to the Patent System by Seymour Melmann, 1949-1956


Box 7 Folder 12 The Columbia Story, 1955 January


Box 7 Folder 13 Retirement and Insurance, Report of the Committee on, 1956 May 14


Box 7 Folder 14 Salaries, Report of the Committee on, 1951


Box 7 Folder 15 Columbia's Crisis Today: Salaries, Finances and the Quality of the Education, 1955 June 9


Box 7 Folder 16 Scholarly Publications, Report of the Committee on, 1957


Box 7 Folder 17 Science and Engineering Research at Columbia, 1956 January 31


Box 7 Folder 18-19 Social Science Research, 1955-1956, 2 folders

Training for Social Science Research by Charles R. Wright; Proposal to Establish an Institute for Training in Social Research; Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research: Organization, Plan of Work, and Present State of the Project.


Box 7 Folder 20 Space Analysis, Report of the Committee on, 1957 April 5


Box 7 Folder 21 Standing of American Graduate Departments by Hayward Keniston, 1957 July

University of Pennsylvania


Box 7 Folder 22 "Woodbridge Report" - The Report of the Committee on the Degree of PhD, 1936-1956