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Carroll Vincent Newsom
Carroll Vincent Newsom
10th President of New York University
	In office; 1956–1962
Preceded by	Henry Townley Heald
Succeeded by	James McNaughton Hester
Personal details
Born	February 23, 1904; Buckley, Illinois, U.S.
Died	February 3, 1990 (aged 85); Dublin, Ohio, U.S.
Education	College of Emporia (BA) ; University of Michigan (MA, PhD)

Carroll Vincent Newsom (February 23, 1904 - February 3, 1990) was an American educator who served as the tenth NYU president and president of Prentice Hall.

Newsom was born February 23, 1904, in Buckley, Illinois. He received a B.A. from the College of Emporia in 1924, a M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1927 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1931.^[1]

He commenced his academic career in 1924 as a mathematics instructor at the College of Emporia. In 1927–1928 he taught at the University of Michigan and at the University of New Mexico in 1928–1929. He was appointed assistant professor in 1929, an associate professor in 1931, and professor in 1933, and served as head of the department from 1931 to 1944. He was professor of mathematics and chairman of the science division at Oberlin College from 1944 to 1948.

From 1948 to 1950, he was Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education, then Associate Commissioner for Higher and Professional Education, for the New York State. Newsom was appointed executive vice president in 1955 at New York University and served as 10th NYU president from 1956 to 1962. He was president of Prentice Hall from 1964 to 1965 and director of NBC from 1961 to 1971, serving as vice president from 1966 to 1969. He served on many other boards of directors and committees, listed below.

Newsom married and had three children. His wife, Frances Jeanne Higley, died June 3, 1989, in Dublin, OH. Newsom died February 3, 1990, in Dublin.

Memberships and other positions

Mathematical Association of America; member 1925–1990; 3 terms on board of governors; president, Southwestern Division 1938–1939
American Association for the Advancement of Science; member 1931–1990; Fellow 1939–1990; president of Southwest Division 1939–1940; Member National Council 1940–1942
American Society for Engineering Education; member 1938–1963; chairman, Math Division 1954
Member, board of directors, Phelps-Stokes Fund 1956–1965
Member, New York Academy of Public Education 1957–1959
Founder of the Courant Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. Raised the money to build a 13-story building to house the members of the staff and their research activities 1958
Member, board of directors, New York World's Fair 1964–1965 Corporation 1959–1972
Vice President and trustee, Thomas Alva Edison Foundation 1960–1970
Vice President, Phi Beta Kappa Association 1961
Chairman of the board, Laboratory for Educational Materials, Inc. 1961–1965
Member, Board of Design, Sterling Forest Corporation, Inc. 1961–1966
Member, board of trustees, New College, Sarasota, Florida 1961–1966
Member, board of directors, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. 1961–1969
Member, board of trustees, Ithaca College 1961–1975; chairman, executive committee 1966; chairman of the board 1967–1970; honorary trustee 1975–1990
Member, board of trustees, Mills College of Education 1962–1964
Member, Council of American Geographical Society 1962–1965
Member, board of trustees, Franklin Book Programs 1962–1967; vice chairman 1965
Member, board of trustees, Briarcliff College 1962–1967
Chairman, governor's Committee on New Jersey Higher Education 1963–1964
Member, board of directors, The American Academy of Political and Social Science 1963–1965
Chairman of the board, New York Institute of Finance 1963–1965
Member, Harvard Visiting Committee for Biology 1963–1970
Member, board of trustees, Guggenheim Foundation 1963–1977; chairman 1975–1977
Member, board of directors, African-American Chamber of Commerce 1964–1969
Member, board of directors, M. Lowenstein and Sons 1965–1973
Member, board of directors, Random House, Inc. 1966–1970; chairman, executive committee 1967–1969
Member, board of directors, The L. W. Singer Company, Inc. 1967–1970
Member, education committee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce 1967–1970
Member, Computer Science Advisory Committee, Stanford University 1967–1971
Member, governor's Commission on Public Broadcasting in New Jersey 1968
Member, board of managers, the Franklin Institute 1968–1971
Member, board of trustees, Dropsie University, 1970–1975
Member, board of directors, National Association of Educational Broadcasters 1970–1975
Chairman, Phi Beta Kappa Bicentennial Fellows 1976
Member, Finance and investment committee, Hamilton Trust Fund 1933–1938
Fellow, Cooperative Study in General Education 1939
Chairman, Seminar on College Mathematics Teaching, University of Chicago 1939–1940
Member, War Policy Committee of Mathematicians 1939–1942
Educational Consultant, Rinehart Publishing Company 1945–1949
Chairman, section on Teaching and History of Mathematics, International Congress of Mathematicians 1950
American Council of education committee on TV 1952–1956
Member, Joint Council on Educational TV 1952–1956
Member, National Commission on Standards of Education and Experience for CPAs 1954–1956
Chairman of the committee that created Educational TV, later to be renamed Public TV
Member, Council of College of Home Economics of Cornell University 1955–1958
Board Member, Metropolitan Educational TV Association, Inc. 1955–1959; chairman 1955–1958
Member, board of trustees, New York University 1955–1962
Board Member, International House of New York 1956–1962
Charter Member, National Honorary Advisory Council for Institute of Latin American Studies 1957
Chairman of the board, Town Hall, Inc. 1957–1958
Member, New York Chamber of Commerce 1957–1961
Member, board of trustees, Grant Monument Association 1957–1970
Council of Higher Educational Institutions in New York City 1958–1960; president 1958–1960
Chairman, AAU Committee on Urban Renewal 1958–1960
Member of board of governors of the Hundred Year Association of New York, Inc. 1958–1961
Member, National Commission on Accrediting 1958–1961
State Advisory Council on Higher Education of University of State of New York 1958–1962
Member, Schools and College Committee of United Negro College Fund, Inc. 1958–1962
Co-chairman of Paderewsky Centennial Committee for 1960 1959
Chairman, New York Committee for the Selection of Rhodes Scholars 1959–1962
Member, American Council on Relationships of Higher Education to Federal Government 1960–1961
Member, advisory council for Advancement of Scientific Research and Development in New York State 1960–1962
Member, advisory committee for the National Defense Counseling and Guidance Institute Program, U. S. Government 1960–1964
Member, board of directors, American Arbitration Association 1960–1964
Member, board of trustees, National Fund for Graduate Nursing Education 1960–1964
Board Member, First Annual International Assembly of TV Arts and Science 1961
Association of colleges and Universities of State of New York; president 1961–1962; vice-president 1959–1960
Member, board of trustees, New York Institute of Technology 1962–1967
Member, advisory council of the Seven College Vocational Workshops 1963–1964
Member, New York State Commission on Telecommunications 1972–1974

Select publications

An Introduction to Mathematics: A Study of the Nature of Mathematics, University of New Mexico Press, 1936.
An Introduction to Mathematics for College Students, University of New Mexico Press, 1939.
An American Philosophy of Education, Van Nostrand, 1942.
A Manual of Mathematics for Prospective Air Corps Cadets, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1942.
Basic Mathematics for Pilots and Flight Crews, Prentice-Hall, 1943.
An Introduction to College Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, 1946, revised edition, 1954.
Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics, Rinehart, 1958, revised edition, 1965.
Mathematical Discourses: The Heart of Mathematical Science, Prentice-Hall, 1964.
The Roots of Christianity, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Problems Are for Solving: An Autobiography, Dorrance (Bryn Mawr, PA), 1983.

References

^ Ravo, Nick (2015-05-25). "Carroll V. Newsom, 85, President Of N.Y.U. Who First Taught at 14 - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2017-05-14.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)