David Pierpont Gardner photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P0745
Scope and Contents
The David Pierpont Gardner photograph collection consists of images related to Gardner's career as President of the University of Utah from 1973 to 1983. His photos include awards, and campus activities as well as personal family materials, honorary degrees, and some materials related to his service as President of the University of California from 1983 to 1992.
Dates
- 1970-1989
Creator
- Gardner, David Pierpont, 1933- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Biographical Sketch
David Pierpont Gardner (b. 1933) was actively involved with President Reagan's Excellence in Education Commission. This commission was created in 1981 to study the decline in American schools and to design a viable alternative to what many felt was a cumbersome and ineffectual system. The prevailing wisdom was that America had lost her edge and much of her inability to compete in the global workforce was due to the lack of competent teaching, bloated budgets, and system-wide apathy. The results of the commission were in the report, A Nation at Risk, with which David Pierpont Gardner was intimately involved. He is the author of The California Oath Controversy (California, 1967) and coeditor of Higher Education and Government (1979). He published, Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President in 2005. David Pierpont Gardner received his B.S. from Brigham Young University in 1955, his M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1959, and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1966. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the National Academy of Education, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Following his tenure as President at the University of Utah from 1973-1982, he became President of the University of California from 1983-1992. From 1993 to 1999, he was the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. More recently, he served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust from 2000 to 2004. Now in his retirement, he remains an active supporter of education.
Extent
5 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The David Pierpont Gardner photograph collection consists of images related to Gardner's career as President of the University of Utah from 1973 to 1983. His photos include awards, and campus activities as well as personal family materials, honorary degrees, and some materials related to his service as President of the University of California from 1983 to 1992.
Arrangement
By subject and folder.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated in 2003
Separated Materials
See also the Manuscripts Division in Special Collections (ACCN 2006).
Processing Information
Processed by Photo Archives staff.
Creator
- Gardner, David Pierpont, 1933- (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the David Pierpont Gardner photograph collection
- Author
- Finding aid created by Sara Davis.
- Date
- 2018 (last modified: 2018)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu