Background
Sheats, Paul Henry was born on December 5, 1907 in Tiffin, Ohio, United States. Son of Edward Hamlin and Katherine Ann (Koch) Sheats.
Sheats, Paul Henry was born on December 5, 1907 in Tiffin, Ohio, United States. Son of Edward Hamlin and Katherine Ann (Koch) Sheats.
Bachelor of Arts, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, 1929; A.M., Columbia University, 1930; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1936; Doctor of Laws, University Akron, 1966.
Instructor government, New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1930-1934;
instructor department education, Yale University, 1934-1936;
director, Federal Forum Project, Chattanooga, 1936-1937;
administration assistant, Federal Forum Demonstration, United States Office Education, 1937-1939;
assistant professor education, University of Wisconsin, 1939-1942;
head adult education section, Office of War Information, 1942-1943;
director, New Tools for Learning, New York City, 1943-1944;
educational director, Town Hall, Inc., New York City, 1944-1946;
associate director, University Extension, University of California, 1946-1957;
director, University Extension, University of California, 1957-1958;
university dean, University Extension, University of California, 1958-1967;
associate professor education, University of California at Los Angeles, 1946-1949;
professor education, University of California, 1949-1975;
professor emeritus, University of California, 1975-1984. Visiting professor education U. Judaism, 1976, 77. Adjunct Professor adult education Teachers College Columbia University, 1982.
Kellogg resident fellow University of Oxford Extra-Mural Delegacy, spring 1967. Consultant Ford Foundation Fund Adult Education, 1951, Coahoma Junior College, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1980. Senior consultant Southern Regional Education Board, 1970-1973.
Advising committee on adult education California Department Education, 1968-1970. Member United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization National Commission, 1950-1956, vice chairman of the executive committee, 1954-1956. United States delegate United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization conf adult education, Elsinore, Denmark, 1949, Montreal, 1960.
United States delegate United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization conf adult education (7th General Conference), Paris, 1952. Member President's Panel on Vocational Education, 1961-1962. Chairman Agency for International Development Evaluation Panel for World Education, 1973.
Board directors National Training Laboratories, 1961-1964. Chairman board directors International College, 1970-1972. Advisory board trustees City University Los Angeles, 1979-1984.
Fellow National University Extension Association (director 1958-1964, president 1962-1963, Julius M. Nolte award 1975). Member National Education Association (president department adult education 1942-1944), American Educational Research Association, Adult Education Association United States (president 1953-1954), Association State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (executive committee 1963-1966), University of California at Los Angeles Emerti Association (president 1977-1978) Clubs: Faculty.
Son of; married Dorothea Burns, 1929. 1 son, Paul Douglas; married Helen Johnson Taylor, November 21, 1942 (divorced June 1967). Children: Peter Warren, Michael Clarron.
Stepchildren: Vern Taylor, Marion. Married June Maseeger Dow, June 16, 1967.