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This series consists of documents created and accumulated by Martin Anderson while employed by Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, where he taught courses on economics, budgeting, and corporate finance from 1962 to 1968. He was promoted to associate professor in 1965 at the age of twenty-eight, the youngest teacher to receive tenure in Columbia University's history.

Documents include correspondence, office files (memoranda, meeting minutes), student coursework, course outlines, lecture notes, syllabi, speeches, examinations, course criticisms, and printed matter (press clippings, etc.). The series also includes documents pertaining to Anderson's dissertation on urban renewal, "The Federal Bulldozer."

Of note, the series includes the following items of interest: documents from a 1965 project to teach free enterprise economics to sixth grade students using computer games, and a 1959 proposal to establish a doctoral program in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) School of Industrial Management. The series does not include student grades.

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