A portrait of James E. Allen, Jr., the gentleman after which the Allen Collegiate Center at the State University of New York at Albany was named. The center was an experimental senior year of high school and freshman year of college combined, providing a Bachelor of Arts degree in three years. The center closed in 1976. Allen was the New York State Commissioner of Education and U.S. President Richard Nixon's Commissioner of Education with the rank of Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Date created

• Undated

Type

• Image

Creator

• University at Albany

Master Format

• TIF

Identifier

• nam_ua_390_pm_003816

Subject

• University of the State of New York
• United States. Office of Education
• Allen, James E., Jr.
• United States. Dept. of Health, Ed., and Welfare
• Allen (James E. Allen, Jr.) Collegiate Center
• University Archives Photographs
• Portraits

License

• Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0

  

ITEM CONTEXT

Collection

University Photograph Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives