Guide to the Joseph Katz Papers
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
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and unpublished works; and biographical information on Katz.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
Administrative Information
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
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.
Cite As
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.
Description of the Collection
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.
Access Terms
Katz, Joseph, 1920-
Stanford University. Institute for the Study of Human Problems.
Vassar College--Students.
College students--Germany.
College students--United States.
Accession ARCH 2010-014
Papers
Box 1
C.V with photo; biographical articles
Box 1
Katz’s reprints and articles
Box 1
Unpublished articles, reports, proposals, teaching plans and notes
Box 1
Unpublished scholarly articles
Box 1
Published works: Growth and Constraint in College Students, 1967; The Student Affairs Dean and the President: Trends in Higher
Education, 1979; Writers on Ethics, 1973; and No Time for Youth, 1969
Box 2
Student Development Studies (Institute for the Study of Human Problems). Interviews
1960-75
Box 2
Interviews with Stanford students (unknown study – not Stud. Devel. Studies)
1961-77
Box 3
Ford Foundation Project Interviews
1987
Box 3
Final Report on the Ford Foundation Project on Teaching and Learning by Mildred M. Henry and Joseph Katz
April 1988
Box 3
Correspondence and interim papers, Ford Foundation Project on Teaching and Learning
1984-87
Box 3
Institute for the Study of Human Problems [ISHP]: articles, memos, clippings, reports, etc.
1962-80
Box 3
ISHP Berkeley faculty interviews
1959
Box 3
ISHP miscellaneous questionnaires and interview transcripts
Box 3
Vassar College student interviews and report to the college president
1951
Box 3
Joseph Katz professional correspondence
1964-88
Box 3
Working papers, Group for Human Development and Educational Policy, SUNY Stony Brook
1973-82
Box 3
Two chapters from Anthology on Adult Women
Box 3
Correspondence and interviews, University Presidents Study
1977-82
Box 3
Published works: Turning Professors into Teachers, 1988; Teaching Undergraduates, Essays from the Lilly Endowment workshop
on Liberal Arts, 1988; Search for Relevance, 1969; and Scholars in the Making, 1976
Box 4
Guggenheim Project on German University Students, correspondence, reports and interviews
1979-80
Box 4
Guggenheim Project on German University Students, interviews and research
1978-79
Box 4
Guggenheim Project on German University Students, assorted materials
Box 4
ISHP, follow-up interviews for student development study
1961-85
Box 4
German project questionnaires
Box 4
Guggenheim Project, correspondence, interviews and relevant research
1978-79
Box 4
Guggenheim Project, report
1979
Box 5
German project: unsorted miscellany, mostly clippings and articles
Box 5
interviews for Guggenheim Project on German University students
Physical Description:
4 audiocassette(s)
Box 5
Joseph Katz & Carol Gillighan “Developing a Theory of Human Development”; Joseph Katz research re teachers; and Shari Cohn
interviewing Dr. Joseph Katz at Stony Brook
Jan. 6, 1987
Physical Description:
3 audiocassette(s)
Box 6
Audio cassettes: interviews for Guggenheim Project on German University students
1978-79
Box 7
Audio cassettes: interviews for Guggenheim Project on German University students
1978-79
