Office of University Planning records, 1956-1967 [Bulk dates: 1962-1967].

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Office of University Planning records, 1956-1967 [Bulk dates: 1962-1967].

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The Office of University Planning dealt with development and planning issues, particularly for academic programs. Many records deal with financial and space planning for academic programs, departments, and schools. The records include correspondence, contracts, committee materials, memoranda, proposals, reports, speeches, and statistics.

5.88 linear ft. (14 document boxes)

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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President Grayson Kirk appointed Stanley Salmen as the Coordinator of University Planning in 1956. The hire was initiated by Jacques Barzun, who was then Dean of the Graduate Faculties, and soon after Provost. The employment announcement indicated that Salmen was meant to "aid in the building of programs now underway for university development, and have responsibility for initiation of additional planning at the all-university level." Salmen was initially part of staff o...

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