New President of Cornell College Named
Harlan Updegraft Ph D of the University of Pennsylvania has been elected sixth president of Cornell College Mount Vernon Iowa and will assume office by July 1 Trustees faculty and students foresee a smooth transition The outgoing leader Dr Charles W Flint elevated the college's profile Updegraft a 1894 Cornell graduate with deep educational work and national prominence will base the presidency in Swarthmore Pa where his wife is also a Cornell alumna The couple intends the president home to be the social center of college life
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Syracuse University
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Prominent Educator Updegraff’s Career Highlights
The article profiles Dr. Updegraff a noted education expert who held roles from Knoxville superintendent to Columbia University philosopher assistant and earned a PhD in 1908. He led Alaska’s bureau division of school administration and later taught at Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania. He authored influential works on rural New York schools and Pennsylvania policy and chaired committees in the National Education Association.
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Pioneer educator shaped national school data standards
He secured adoption of standard schedules for reporting financial data to national education offices and studied school system expenses. He held conferences with state superintendents, promoted uniformity in teacher certification, and produced the most extensive bulletin on the subject. He issued the first circulars from the national bureau of education on school administration.
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