Reminiscences of Walter Adams : oral history, 1968.

Biographical Note

Sir Walter Adams was a historian and educator who was a director at the University and College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Scope and Contents

Early involvement with Carnegie Corporation as part of efforts to relocate scholars from Nazi Germany and Austria, 1933-1938; involvement with Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas, 1943-1946; post-war development of universities in Africa and Caribbean under Carnegie Corporation's British Dominions and Colonies Fund; establishment of Institute of Education at University of East Africa (now Makerere University); library school at University of Ibadan; creation of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica; touring American universities with Sally Chilvers of Colonial Social Research Council; thoughts on land-grant universities, adult education, and the distinctions between American and British education. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Whitney H. Shepardson, Stephen Henry Stackpole.

Subjects

• Adams, Walter, 1906-1975--Interviews.
• Adult education.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas.
• Interviews.
• Makerere University--History.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Universities and colleges--Jamaica.
• Universities and colleges--Nigeria.
• Universities and colleges--Uganda.
• University of Ibadan. Department of Library Studies--History.
• University of the West Indies--History.