Cartter, Allan Murray.

Allan M. Cartter was a professor of Economics and Dean of the Graduate School at Duke from 1959 to 1962.

From the description of Allan Murray Cartter Papers, 1955-1959. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 159935980

Allan Murray Cartter was born on June 17, 1922 in Westfield, NJ; AB, Colgate Univ., 1946; AM (1949), Ph. D (1952), Yale Univ.; postgraduate student, Cambridge Univ., 1950-52; instructor in economics, Colgate Univ., 1946-48; asst. professor, assoc. professor, dean of graduate school, 1959-62, Duke Univ.; vice-president, American Council on Education, 1963-66; chancellor and executive vice-president, New York Univ., 1966-72; senior research assoc., Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, 1972-74; professor at the Graduate School of Education and director of Laboratory of Research on Higher Education, 1974-76, UCLA; publications include The redistribution of income in postwar Britain (1955) and Theory of wages and employment (1959); he died on Aug. 4, 1976 in Beverly Hills, CA.

From the description of Papers, 1952-1975. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40946236

Biography

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.

From the guide to the Allan Murray Cartter papers, 1952-1975, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.)

Allan Murray Cartter was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1922. He received his B.A. from Colgate University in 1946, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1949 and 1952, respectively. From 1942-1945, he served in the U.S. Army and in the Second Cavalry Group of the European Theater.

From 1959 to 1962, he served as both professor in the Duke Economics Department, and as Dean of the Graduate School. He left Duke in 1963 to join the faculty at New York University. At NYU, he served as chancellor from 1966 to 1972. Cartter's research specialties included national income analysis, labor and tax policy.

From the guide to the Allan Murray Cartter Papers, 1955-1959, (University Archives, Duke University)