Word: mcgrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York State Department of Education recommended Earl J. McGrath. So did Presbyterian officials, who by now were warming to the idea. So did the Ford Foundation. Asked Rosenkrans: "Who is McGrath?" He and Skinner found out soon enough. Buffalo-born Earl McGrath had been U.S. Commissioner of Education under President Truman and president of the University of Kansas City. The prospectors located him in New York, where McGrath, 62, was teaching at Columbia and directing research in higher education. Skinner went to see him and opened the conversation with: "What are we doing to help the C+ high school student...
...They Want to Learn." As it happened, McGrath had been thinking for a long time about settling down at a small, undergraduate liberal arts college. He was interested, too, in the college kids of today who, he contends, are justifiably in revolt against the "facelessness and anonymity" of undergraduate life in the sprawling, ever-growing universities. "No generation has been more dedicated, more intellectually stimulated," he says. "They want to learn-and they will learn if you pay attention to them. Eisenhower College is the place for this...
Fortunately McGrath has left a substantial heritage and qualified staff behind him. The question is how far they'll be allowed to go, now that a political specter has been resurrected in the Department of Correction by Volpe...
After trampling so crudely over one of the state's most dedicated administrators and one of the only sources of state pride, Volpe bears careful watching indeed. After considerable criticism form the press about the firing of McGrath, Volpe issued a statement on Wednesday by way of excuse. After predictibly denying that there had been a "purge," Volpe justified the action against McGrath and another official thus: "They did not have life tenure...
...public for his appointments, Volpe declared in a whirlwind burst of contradiction, "I see nothing to be gained and much to be deplored by a public discussion of the relative merits of the candidates." Ironically, Volpe's original statement, in toto, given last week as his reason for firing McGrath might loom as a campaign slogan in 1966: "It's time for a change...