# Walter Cocking
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'''Walter D. Cocking''' (1891{{spaced ndash}}January 14, 1964) was an academic administrator. As Dean of the College Education of the [University of Georgia](/source/University_of_Georgia), he was fired in 1941, rehired, and fired again for supporting [racial integration](/source/school_segregation_in_the_United_States). The episode is known as the [Cocking affair](/source/Cocking_affair).
==Early life and education==
Cocking was born in [Manchester, Iowa](/source/Manchester%2C_Iowa) and earned a bachelor's degree from [Des Moines College](/source/Des_Moines_College), a Master's from [Iowa](/source/University_of_Iowa), and his doctorate from [Columbia](/source/Columbia_University)[{{cite encyclopedia|last=Cook|first=James F|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-594|title=Cocking Affair|encyclopedia=[New Georgia Encyclopedia](/source/New_Georgia_Encyclopedia)|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council and University of Georgia Press|year=2002|access-date=2010-12-23}}] He worked as a superintendent of schools in Iowa and was an artillery lieutenant in [World War I](/source/World_War_I).[{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/15/walter-cocking-educator-dead.html|title = WALTER COCKING, EDUCATOR, DEAD; Developer of Teaching Aids and School Design Was 72|newspaper = The New York Times|date = January 15, 1964}}]
==Early career==
Cocking initially held academic administrative positions in Iowa, [Texas](/source/Texas), and [Missouri](/source/Missouri). He then spent five years as professor of school administration at the [George Peabody College for Teachers](/source/George_Peabody_College_for_Teachers) in [Nashville, Tennessee](/source/Nashville%2C_Tennessee). From 1932 to 1936, he was the commissioner of education for Tennessee.[Tennessee. Department of Education, "Annual Statistical Report, for the Scholastic Year Ending
June 30, 2023" (2023). Annual Statistical Reports. 12. https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/ed_annual_stat_reports/12]
==University of Georgia==
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In 1937, Cocking was hired to improve academic standards at the University of Georgia's [College of Education](/source/University_of_Georgia_College_of_Education). While there he developed several reforms but had a "brash and domineering style".