Ernest Carroll Moore

Moore in 1909

Ernest Carroll Moore (1871-1955) was an American educator. He co-founded the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California.

Biography

Early life

Ernest Carroll Moore was born in 1871 in Youngstown, Ohio.^[1][2][3] He graduated from Ohio Normal University in 1892, where he also received an LL.B. in 1894.^[1][2][3] He then received a Master's degree from Columbia University in 1898.^[2][3] He later received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.^[1][2][3]

Career

While at university, he taught in grammar schools in Mississippi.^[2] He later taught at the University Settlement Society of New York and at Hull House in Chicago, where he worked with Jane Addams (1860-1935).^[2][3] He was a member of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections from 1903 to 1910.^[2]

He started his academic career as a Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1898 to 1901.^[1][2] From 1901 to 1906, he was an Instructor, followed by Assistant Professor of Education, and in 1905, Director of the Summer Sessions.^[2] From 1906 to 1910, he became superintendent of schools in Los Angeles.^[1][2] In 1910, he taught Philosophy at Yale University.^[1][2] From 1913 to 1917, he taught Philosophy at Harvard University.^[1][2]

He served as President of the Los Angeles State Normal School from 1917 to 1919.^[1][2] In 1919, he was named President of its Southern Branch in Westwood, Los Angeles, which later became UCLA.^[1] Together with Edward Augustus Dickson (1879-1956), he paved the way for the creation of UCLA.^[1] He was a Professor of Education at UCLA from 1919 to 1929.^[3] He later served as Vice President from 1929 to 1931, and as Provost from 1931 to 1936.^[1][2][3] He stepped down as an administrator at UCLA in 1936, and taught until 1941, when he retired.^[1][2]

He received Honorary LL.D.'s from the University of Southern California in 1916; the University of Arizona in 1923; Pomona College in 1931; and UCLA in 1942.^[2] He served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1936.^[3]

Moore Hall on the UCLA campus

Personal life

He was the second husband of Dorothea Moore, whose first husband was Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928).^[4] He resided on Woodruff Avenue in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, close to the UCLA campus.^[2]

Death and legacy

He died on January 23, 1955, at the age of eighty-three, in Los Angeles.^[1][2][3] Shortly after his death in 1955, the Education building on the UCLA campus was renamed Moore Hall in his honor.^[1]

Bibliography

• Present Tendencies in Secondary Education (Lebanon, New Hampshire: University of Vermont Press, 1911)
• What Is Education? (Ginn, 1915)
• Educational Reconstruction (1919)
• How New York City Administers Its School: A Constructive Study (World Book, 1919)
• Education as World-Building (with Thomas Davidson, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1925)
• Social Activity, What is Meant By (New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929)
• John Dewey and His Educational Philosophy (1930)
• The Story of Instruction (MacMillan, 1936)
• California's Educators (1949)
• I Helped Make a University (Dawson's Book Shop, 1952)
• Some Speeches (Ward Ritchie Press, 1959, posthumour)

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