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Call Number: SC0979
Creator:
Katz, Joseph, 1920-
Title: Joseph Katz papers
Dates: 1951-1988
Physical Description:
8.5 Linear feet
Summary: Collection includes the following: Vassar College student interviews and report to the college president, 1951; interviews
and other materials for the Student Development Studies done at the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, 1960-85; interviews
with Stanford students from an unknown study, 1961-77; interviews, correspondence, and final report from the Ford Foundation
Project on Teaching and Learning, 1984-88; questionnaires, audio interviews, correspondence, and other papers from the Guggenheim
Project on German University Students, 1978-79; articles, memos, clippings, reports, etc., pertaining to Katz’s work at the
Institute for the Study of Human Problems, 1962-80; professional correspondence, 1964-88; Katz’s reprints, articles, books,
and unpublished works; and biographical information on Katz.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Joseph Katz Papers (SC0979). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Joseph Katz came to Stanford University in 1961 as Research Coordinator at the Institute for the Study of Human Problems;
he was executive director when he left in 1970 to join the faculty at SUNY Stony Brook. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania,
M.A. 1942, and Columbia, Ph.D. 1948, Katz taught philosophy at Vassar College, 1948-1961, and was a research associate in
psychiatry at UC Berkeley, 1958-60. While at Stanford he conducted a five-year longitudinal study of students (drawn from
Stanford and UC Berkeley), which became the basis for the book NO TIME FOR YOUTH.
Collection includes the following: Vassar College student interviews and report to the college president, 1951; interviews
and other materials for the Student Development Studies done at the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, 1960-85; interviews
with Stanford students from an unknown study, 1961-77; interviews, correspondence, and final report from the Ford Foundation
Project on Teaching and Learning, 1984-88; questionnaires, audio interviews, correspondence, and other papers from the Guggenheim
Project on German University Students, 1978-79; articles, memos, clippings, reports, etc., pertaining to Katz’s work at the
Institute for the Study of Human Problems, 1962-80; professional correspondence, 1964-88; Katz’s reprints, articles, books,
and unpublished works; and biographical information on Katz.
Katz, Joseph, 1920-
Stanford University. Institute for the Study of Human Problems.
Vassar College--Students.
College students--Germany.
College students--United States.