Interview with Hollis L. Caswell
By: by Thomas F. Hogan
Series: N.Y.T. [i.e. New York Times oral history program -- 1]; Columbia University oral history collection -- pt. 2, no. 30
Published: 1975
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Presidents; Interviews; Educators; College presidents; Columbia University. Teachers College
Other titles: Caswell, Hollis Leland
Description: Educator. Topics include: family, education; experiences as graduate student at Teacher's College (TC); consultant to Southern state departments of education, General Education Board; school surveys, curricula, national associations; return to TC, 1937-1962: head of department of curriculum and teaching, 1937-1947, director, division of instruction, 1938-1950, president, 1954-1962; relations with Fund for Advancement of Education and Carnegie Corporation; teaching as a profession, teachers' unions, trustees, administration; travel; consultant to World book encyclopedia; retirement. Vignettes of James Russell and William Russell, Professor George Strayer, James B. Conant and many others in education.
Notes: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University in 1967.

Includes index.

Microfiche of typescript. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1975. -- 3 sheets ; 11 x 15 cm. -- (Columbia University oral history collection ; pt. 2, no. 30)