page_title: Brookwood Labor College
section_title: Faculty
hierarchical_section_title: Brookwood Labor College / Curriculum and faculty / Faculty
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles A. Beard in 1917 (1874&#8211;1948) to help restore Tokyo CALL NUMBER: BIOG FILE - Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948 &lt;item&gt; [P&amp;P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-122949 (b&amp;w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Charles A. Beard, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, holding book. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. NOTES: Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-B2-4361-12. FORMAT: Portrait photographs 1920-1930. Photographic prints 1920-1930. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
context_page_description: Brookwood Labor College was a labor college located at 109 Cedar Road in Katonah, New York, United States. Founded as Brookwood School in 1919 and established as a college in 1921, it was the first residential labor college in the country. Its founding and longest-serving president was A. J. Muste. The school was supported by affiliate unions of the American Federation of Labor until 1928.
  The Brookwood faculty's emphasis on trade union militancy and on advocacy of socialism was opposed by the AFL's Executive Council, which pressured the AFL's unions to withdraw support for the school. Brookwood was later riven by internal dissent over whether it should support militant unionism or remain strictly an educational organization.
  Suffering from financial difficulties, Brookwood closed in 1937. It is considered one of the most influential labor colleges in American history and was known as "labor's Harvard." Its best known alumnus was Walter Reuther.
context_section_description: Brookwood's Director was A.J. Muste, a Christian and pacifist. He also served as chairman of the faculty, and taught world history. John C. Kennedy was the Director of Studies, and Tom Tippett the director of extension activities. Cara Cook acted as both Brookwood's librarian and served as administrative assistant to Muste. In later years, she taught classes and tutored students at the college as well.
  Faculty taught either full- or part-time. Notable faculty who taught there (for a part or most of the school's history) included:
  Charles A. Beard (history)
  Louis Budenz (labor organizing and strike management)
  Dr. Arthur W. Calhoun (sociology and history)
  Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (writing and nonviolent techniques)
  Josephine Colby (public speaking)
  Katherine Pollak Ellickson (writing and economics)
  Jack Frager (labor history)
  Abram Lincoln Harris (economics)
  John C. Kennedy (economics)
  John Martindale (union organization and parliamentary procedure)
  Dr. Broadus Mitchell (economics)
  Helen G. Norton (labor journalism)
  Roy Reuther (labor organizing)
  Lawrence Rogin (trade union organization and labor journalism)
  John Nevin Sayre (nonviolent techniques)
  Dr. David J. Saposs (economics)
  Dr. Joel Seidman (economics and union issues)
  Tucker P. Smith (later Socialist candidate for U.S. vice president
  Mark Starr (British labor history)
  Dr. Lazare Teper (economics)
  Tom Tippett (strike organizing and music)
  Nat Weinberg (economics)
  Clinton S. Golden is often claimed to have been on the faculty. But as Golden's biographer Thomas Brooks, points out, Golden lectured occasionally at Brookwood but was never appointed to the faculty. His role on the board of directors precluded it.
  The faculty was integrated (Harris was African American). The faculty was also unionized, with all teachers members of Local 189 of the American Federation of Teachers.
  Faculty at Brookwood were an integral part of the school's administration.  Faculty had a formal role in directing the school and in setting its educational policies. Faculty also helped establish and maintain Brookwood's clearinghouse on worker education materials, and hosted an annual conference on worker education that drew labor educators from across the nation.
caption: Charles A. Beard was one of Brookwood's most famous faculty members.
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