Following his 1923 graduation, he worked as an administrator at
Harvard until 1929 when he was hired by the
Hawaiian Pineapple Company. He returned to Harvard in 1933 as a
Professor and then in 1939 he returned to his
alma mater to become
Chancellor of
University of Kansas. While serving as Chancellor of the university, he helped oversee the transition of a peacetime campus to a wartime one, and enabled KU to train thousands of military personnel. In 1951, Malott accepted the position of 6th president of
Cornell University. His 12-year term as president brought about the era of '
Big Science' at Cornell: in 1961 sponsored research funding came to over $39 million. His term also saw the construction of new campuses for the
School of Labor Relations and the Colleges of
Engineering and
Veterinary Medicine as well as other major facilities, including the
Arecibo Observatory and
Lynah Rink. Though a social conservative, Malott was publicly very critical of
McCarthyism; he saw it as a major threat to
academic freedom. After his retirement from Cornell, he would go on to serve on the boards of
B.F. Goodrich,
Owens-Corning, and
General Mills. ==References==