Correspondence between Benjamin Haggott Beckhart, professor of banking in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, and high level University administrators. Records relate to a variety of topics. Includes Beckhart's addresses to the Sixty-Fourth Annual Convention of the Iowa Bankers Association in October, 1950 and the Conference of Business Economists in March, 1951. Also includes correspondence regarding a commercial bank management program that was sponsored by the Graduate School of Business in November, 1959. Also, correspondence regarding Beckhart's personnel issues and professional activities. Includes his 1960 memorandum on relations between the faculty and administration of the business school and the administration of Dean Courtney Brown.