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

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Series III: Report Files

This set of records includes drafts, revisions and final copies of the Report. There is a set departmental records (correspondence and drafts used as the basis of the report); revisions (mostly from after the Arden House conference); records related to the production and the distribution of the report, and full sets of the Arden House conference (1957) transcripts.


Departmental Reports



Box 7 Folder 23 Anatomy, 1956


Box 7 Folder 24 Anthropology, 1956


Box 7 Folder 25 Astronomy, 1956


Box 7 Folder 26 Biochemistry, 1956


Box 7 Folder 27 Botany, 1956


Box 7 Folder 28 Chemistry, 1956


Box 7 Folder 29 Chemical Engineering, 1956


Box 7 Folder 30 Chinese and Japanese, 1956


Box 7 Folder 31 Civil Engineering, 1956


Box 7 Folder 32 Comparative Literature and English, 1956



Box 8 Folder 1 Economics, 1956


Box 8 Folder 2 Engineering, School of - General (Departmental Reports), 1956


Box 8 Folder 3 Electrical Engineering, 1956


Box 8 Folder 4 Fine Arts and Archaeology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 5 French, 1956


Box 8 Folder 6 Geology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 7 Germanic Languages, 1956


Box 8 Folder 8 Graphics, 1956


Box 8 Folder 9 Greek and Latin, 1956


Box 8 Folder 10 Hispanic Languages, 1956


Box 8 Folder 11 History, 1956


Box 8 Folder 12 Industrial Engineering, 1956


Box 8 Folder 13 Italian, 1956


Box 8 Folder 14 Linguistics, 1956


Box 8 Folder 15 Mathematics, 1956


Box 8 Folder 16 Mathematical Statistics, 1956


Box 8 Folder 17 Mechanical Engineering, 1956


Box 8 Folder 18 Microbiology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 19 Mining, Metallurgical and Mineral Engineering, 1956


Box 8 Folder 20 Music, 1956


Box 8 Folder 21 Pathology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 22 Pharmacology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 23 Physics, 1956


Box 8 Folder 24 Physiology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 25 Psychology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 26 Philosophy, 1956


Box 8 Folder 27 Public Law and Government, 1956


Box 8 Folder 28 Religion, 1956


Box 8 Folder 29 Slavic Languages, 1956


Box 8 Folder 30-31 Sociology, 1956, 2 folders


Box 8 Folder 32 Uralic and Altaic Languages, 1956


Box 8 Folder 33 Zoology, 1956


Box 8 Folder 34 Departmental Management: Information Gathered from the Departmental Executive Officers, 1956


Drafts



Box 9 Folder 1 Edited manuscript of the draft used in July 1957, from which was typed the draft submitted to the President on July 31, 1957, 1957


Box 9 Folder 2 Draft submitted to the President on July 31, 1957, edited in pen for mimeographing, 1957

The inked changes showing revisions made during August-September 1957 on the basis of comments received from Committee members, etc.


Box 9 Folder 3 Corrected drafts for printer which incorporated on mimeographed pages used at Arden House corrections and additions (and cuts), 1957


Box 9 Folder 4 Arden House version, revised from the draft submitted to the President on July 31, 1957, was sent in advance to all persons invited to the Arden House Conference and was later revised, 1957 September



Box 8 Folder 35 Interim Progress Report to the President, 1957


Box 8 Folder 36 President's Letter of Transmittal, 1957 September 20


Box 8 Folder 37 Transcript of the Tape-Record Proceedings of the Arden House Conference, October 11-13, 1957 on the Draft Report of the President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University, 1957


Box 8 Folder 38 The Educational Future of Columbia University (Final Printed Report), 1957 December

The final form of the report was sent to all full-time members of the Faculty in December 1957. It was released to the press on January 9, 1958.


Box 8 Folder 39 Printed Report - Comments, 1957-1958


Box 8 Folder 40 Printed Report - Distribution and Additional Requests, 1957-1958


Box 8 Folder 41 Printed Report - General and Misc. Incomplete, 1957-1958


Box 8 Folder 42 Report, Printing of, 1957


Box 8 Folder 43 Printed Report - Publicity, 1958


Box 8 Folder 44 Printed Report, 1957 December 18



Box 10 Folder 1 Report and Conference Comments, 1957


Box 10 Folder 2 Report - Mimeograph, Distribution, etc., 1957


Box 10 Folder 3 The Report - General, 1957


Box 10 Folder 4 Transcript of the Tape-Record Proceedings of the Arden House Conference, October 11-13, 1957 on the Draft Report of the President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University, 1957


Box 10 Folder 5 Arden House recordings, 1957 October, 3 Reels



Box 13 Arden House recordings, 1957 October , 7 Reels



Box 10 Folder 6 The Report of the President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University, 1957