Marshall S. Smith : Interview for the John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Marshall S. “Mike” Smith, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, discusses his career path after graduating from Harvard University, talks John Gardner’s return to Stanford University, and reflects on Gardner’s legacy. Smith recounts directing research for a seminar on the 1966 Coleman Report on the equality of education. He then talks about coming to Stanford as the dean of the School of Education in 1986, where he made it his priority to increase the diversity of the faculty. He also discusses his joint appointment in the Graduate School of Education and the Graduate School of Business. Other topics Smith addressed include Gardner’s work as president of the Carnegie Corporation, his tenure as secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and his turn to bottom-up advocacy as founder of Common Cause and Independent Sector. Smith concludes by reflecting on Gardner’s broad strategic vision and productive career.
Description
Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical, text, still image |
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Extent | 1 audio file; 1 text file; 1photograph |
Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Date created | December 7, 2017 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Smith, Marshall S. | |
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Creator | Smith, Marshall S. | |
Interviewer | Schmidt-Posner, Jackie | |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
Subject | Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 |
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Subject | Civil Society > United States |
Subject | Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
Biographical profile | Marshall S. “Mike” Smith is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Previously, he served for two years in the Obama administration as the senior counselor to the secretary of education and director of international affairs. From 2001-2009 he directed the Education Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Prior to that, in the Clinton administration, he was the undersecretary of education for seven years, responsible for all policy and budget matters, and for four of those years also the acting deputy secretary, the second ranked person in the US Department of Education. During the Carter administration, he served as the chief of staff to the first secretary for education and assistant commissioner for policy studies in the Office of Education. In the Ford administration he was the director of policy and budget for the National Institute of Education. Throughout his government service, Smith knew of John Gardner’s contributions, beginning with Gardner’s leadership of the Carnegie Corporation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, but got to know him in the late 1980s. As dean of the Stanford School of Education, Smith was involved in recruiting Gardner back to Stanford to become the first chair holder of the Mimi and Peter Haas Professorship in Public Service (1989). Gardner’s appointments at Stanford were in both the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business. While not in government, Smith was at different times an associate professor at Harvard and a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Stanford. He has authored a large number of publications on topics varying from computer content analysis, evaluation and research methodology, social and educational inequality, early childhood education, open educational resources, federal policy and school reform. He is a member of the National Academy of Education. All of his degrees are from Harvard. |
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Transcript |
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Finding Aid | |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cv535sr2711 |
Location | SC1355 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
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