Groisser, Philip L.

Dr. Philip L. Groisser was a Brooklyn College Assistant Professor in the Education Department from 1960 through 1974 in its School of General Studies. He received his B.S. degree from City College; his M.A. from Columbia; and his Ph.D from New York University (?) During the time that Dr. Groisser taught Education in the School of General Studies at Brooklyn College, he always remained very much involved with the public high school system where his career first began. In 1966, Philip Groisser was named principal of Grover Cleveland High School in Queens, New York, but he would also become the Assistant Superintendent in the high school division, and eventually Superintendent of Brooklyn's high schools. Dr. Groisser was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Midwood High School in the Brooklyn College Program. These programs enabled talented Midwood High School students the access to facilities available at Brooklyn College which could help them advance their education. These high school students were given the oportunity to attend advanced classes in the sciences, the humanities, and in the performing arts, received guest lectures from the Brooklyn College faculty, and were allowed the use of laboratories at Brooklyn College. In their senior year of high school, students who were in the programs could even take college classes. There was a move to extend this program into other area high schools but it was not successful. As part of his involvement in public city high shools and as Superintendent of high schools (in addition to teaching at Brooklyn College), Dr. Groisser wrote several textbooks including How to Use the Fine Art of Questioning, Mastering American History and the controversial high school/college textbook entitled The United States and the Middle East, published by the State University of New York Press, and ultimately viewed as biased and anti-Arab--although it had been commissioned by the American Academic Association for Peace in the Mideast. Dr. Philip L. Groisser died in 2004.