{"id":929,"date":"2015-06-22T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=929"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:16:46","slug":"carmichael-oliver-cromwell-1892-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"CARMICHAEL, OLIVER CROMWELL, 1891-1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University and foundation\u00a0administrator. Born&#8211; October 3, 1891, Goodwater. Parents&#8211; Daniel and Amanda Delight (Lessley) Carmichael. Married&#8211; Ruth Mae Crabtree, July 13, 1918. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211;Alabama Presbyterian College,\u00a0Anniston, for two years; University of Alabama, B.A., 1911, M.A., 1914; Rhodes Scholar at\u00a0 Oxford University, B.S., 1917.\u00a0 Served in the U.S. Army, WWI; a volunteer in Herbert Hoover&#8217;s Commission for Belgian Relief; worked for the YMCA in India and East Africa.\u00a0 Teacher and principal in the Birmingham City Schools, 1919-1922;\u00a0\u00a0assistant to the president, dean, and president of \u00a0Alabama College at Montevallo, 1922-1935;\u00a0 dean of the graduate school,\u00a0 vice chancellor and chancellor, Vanderbilt University, 1937-46; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, president, 1946-53; president of the University of\u00a0 Alabama, 1953-57.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A consultant to the Fund for the Advancement of Education and a member of President Truman&#8217;s Commission on Higher Education, 1946-47; chairman of the board of trustees of the New York State University System, 1948-53.\u00a0 Awarded the Queen&#8217;s Medal, King Albert&#8217;s Medal, and the medal of the Belgian National Relief Committee, by the Belgian government; awarded the British Army Service Medal; and the American Service Medal. Received the American Council Book Award Gold Medal and the higher education prize of the American Council on Education, 1962.\u00a0Honorary doctorates from many institutions, including the University of Alabama (1937). Carmichael Library at Montevallo, \u00a0Carmichael Towers at Vanderbilt, and Carmichael Hall at the University of\u00a0 Alabama are named in his honor. \u00a0Died\u00a0September 25, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Current Biography; American National Biography online; Who&#8217;s Who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Changing Role of Higher Education. New York; Macmillan, 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate Education&#8211; a Critique and a Program. New York; Harper, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Racial Tensions: A Study in Human Reactions.\u00a0 University of New Hampshire Press, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Universities, Commonwealth and American; a Comparative Study. New York; Harper, 1959.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collections of the papers of Oliver Cromwell Carmichael are held at the University of Alabama, Vanderbilt University, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University and foundation\u00a0administrator. Born&#8211; October 3, 1891, Goodwater. Parents&#8211; Daniel and Amanda Delight (Lessley) Carmichael. Married&#8211; Ruth Mae Crabtree, July 13, 1918. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211;Alabama Presbyterian College,\u00a0Anniston, for two years; University of Alabama, B.A., 1911, M.A., 1914; Rhodes Scholar at\u00a0 Oxford University, B.S., 1917.\u00a0 Served in the U.S. Army, WWI; a volunteer in Herbert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}