Oral history interview with Kathleen Carlson, 1983.

Biographical Note

Educational administrator.

Scope and Contents

Research Associate, Spencer Foundation 1978-81: reviews of grant proposals, preparation of precis, foundation criteria for approval, grant proposal approval procedure, program committee meetings, staff development of grant proposals, site visits; administrator, Northeastern Illinois University from 1981; influences of Spencer Foundation work on her personally; perception of Spencer Foundation as elitist; impressions of Tom James.

Subjects

• Carlson, Kathleen--Interviews.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Endowment of research.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Endowments.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Northeastern Illinois University.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Spencer Foundation.