Oral history interview with Kenneth Keniston, 1999.

Biographical Note

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scope and Contents

Childhood: born Chicago, Illinois, raised in Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Argentina; Harvard College: B.A. in government; Rhodes Scholar; Oxford University: D.Phil. in social studies; introduction to Carnegie: Kerr Commission, differences between Carnegie and Ford; Council on Children: council versus commission, assembling of council, message, Carnegie response, political mood, issues of production; later work: study of engineering students, student internship program in India.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Council on Children.
• Child development.
• Endowments--United States.
• Interviews.
• Keniston, Kenneth--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Social psychologists--Interviews.
• Zane, Sharon interviewer.