Finding Aid for the Allan Murray Cartter papers, 1952-1975 LSC.1488
Finding aid prepared by Caroline Cubé, 2011.
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Title: Allan Murray Cartter papers
Creator:
Cartter, Allan Murray
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1488
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
1 box.
Date (inclusive): 1952-1975
Abstract: Allan Murray Cartter (1922-1976) was an accomplished economist, scholar, and professor. He is known for his many contributions
in graduate education evaluation, income analysis, and research in education. The collection contains a sampling of some his
academic and professional contributions, mainly from the latter years of his career as an educator and administrator.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of the estate of Allan M. Cartter, May, 1989.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942326683606533
Allan Murray Cartter (1922-1976) was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He completed his undergraduate studies at Colgate University
where he received his B.A. in 1946. He attended Yale University where he earned his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in1952. He
also served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1945. Cartter served dual positions as both professor in the Duke Economics Department
and as Dean of the Graduate School from 1959 to 1962. In 1963, Cartter secured a new professorship at New York University,
where he later served as the university chancellor from 1966 to 1972. He was also served as vice president of the American
Council on Education in Washington, D.C from 1963 to 1966. In 1973, Cartter accepted a position at UCLA where he was Professor
of Higher Education and Director of the Laboratory for Research on Higher Education.
Cartter's specializations were in education and economics. His more specific research interests included the evaluation of
graduate education, national income analysis, and labor and tax policy. His
Rating of Graduate Schools: An Assessment of Quality in Graduate Education became a national standard and set the precedent in terms of its quality for future studies of this kind. Other important
works from Cartter include
Higher Education: Who Pays? Who Benefits? Who Should Pay? (McGraw Hill: 1973), and
Ph.D.s and the Academic Labor Market (McGraw Hill: 1976). He died on August 4, 1976 in Los Angeles, California.
The collection consists of various pamphlets, transcripts, and evaluations in the form of draft reports spanning from the
years 1973 to 1975. Included in these reports are joint findings from interdisciplinary academic clusters, and from a bio-medical
research panel and an academic survey of state colleges and universities. Also included is a copy of his dissertation from
1952.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Educators -- United States -- Archives.
Cartter, Allan Murray--Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Graduate School of Education--Faculty -- Archives
box 1, folder 1
box 1, folder 2
box 1, folder 3
box 1, folder 4
Reports October, 1975.
Draft excerpts from the President's Biomedical Research Panel. Includes the final reports of the Epidemiology, Biostatistics
and Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Cluster, the Nutrition Interdisciplinary Cluster, the Pharmacology, Substance Abuse,
and Environmental Toxicology Interdisciplinary Cluster, the Social and Behavioral Development Interdisciplinary Cluster and
the Tissue and Organ Biology Interdisciplinary Cluster.
box 1, folder 5
Reports April, 1973.
Draft chapter excerpt from a survey of 279 institutions included in the membership of the American Association of the State
Colleges and Universities and a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develpmont, Education Committee
titled The Education Situation in Member Countries: A Review of Trends and Priority Areas for Policy.
box 1, folder 6
box 1, folder 7