Background
UPDEGRAFF, Harlan was born on August 22, 1874 in Sigourney, Iowa, United States. Son of Ambrose and Hannah (Harlan) Updegraff.
UPDEGRAFF, Harlan was born on August 22, 1874 in Sigourney, Iowa, United States. Son of Ambrose and Hannah (Harlan) Updegraff.
Cornell College, Iowa., Bachelor of Philosophy, 1894. Columbia University, Master of Arts, 1908. Student Teachers College, Columbia University, (F.) 1907.
Doctor of Philosophy, 1908. Syracuse University, Doctor of Laws, 1926.
Chief of Alaska Division., United States Bureau. Education, 1907-1910. Specialist in School Admin, and Chief Division. of School Admin., United States Bureau Education, 12.
Professor Education and Head of Department, Northwestern University, 1912-1913. Professor, Educational Admin., 1913-1923. Director, Bureau. of Educational Measurements, University of Pennsylvania, 1917-1923.
President, Cornell College, Mountain. Vernon, Iowa., 1923-1927. Visiting professor Swarthmore College, 1927.
Professor, University of California, summer school, 1927. Director, State Educational Survey, Trenton, New Jersey, 1928-1929. Research Consultant, National.
Advisory Committee on Education, Washington. District of Columbia, 1930. Collaborator on surveys of city school systems, Baltimore, Maryland, 1911, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921, rural schools of Pennsylvania, 1913.
Director, financial section, New York State Rural School Survey, 1921. Chairman, National Education Association Committee on Tenure, Committee on Participation of Teachers in School Management.
Member: National. Institute, of Social Sciences. National Education Association. National. Society for Study Education.
Society of College Teachers Education. National. Association Directors Educational Research. Sigma Xi; Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Delta Kappa; Sigma Nu.
Spouse Gertrude Bartholomew, 1901, Preston, Iowa.