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- Rainey came to MSU in 1964, with his law degree, as an MBA student. He later accepted a teaching position and became assistant dean of the College of Business in 1969. Rainey recalls his role on the Student Faculty Judiciary and the social pressures of the 1960s on campus. He also discusses the College of Business and its relation to MSU, the pros and cons of the semester system, evolving student expectations and how the College attempts to meet those challenges.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-05-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Bill Faunce, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University Department of Sociology, talks about his youth, education, and what brought him to MSU in 1957 to teach industrial sociology and work in the Center for Labor and Industrial Relations which later became known as the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR). Faunce also talks about his research, the structure of SLIR, the mission of the school, working in an auto plant in his younger days, and coordinating the school's move from the basement of Marshall Hall to South Kedzie Hall. Faunce is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-09-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Writer Jack Driscoll discusses how he started writing and publishing, the person who most influenced his writing, writing fiction versus poems, the theme of families in his fiction, the influence of Michigan in his work, teaching, and his current projects. Driscoll is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Kara Gust for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-11-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Essayist Arthur Versluis, professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University, talks about his book "Island Farm", teaching writing in the classroom, the balance between his academic and farming lives, his views on organic farming, and his works in progress. Versluis is interviewed by MSU Librarian Jane Arnold for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Author Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State University professor of English and head of the creative writing program, talks about her broad publishing credits and how she balances an academic career with a writing career. She comments on her memoir "Texas girl," suggests that clear genres are going away as lines between them become more blurred, and explains the differences between memoir, autobiography, and the novel. Silbergleid is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-04-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Fannie Beal, niece of William James Beal, the Michigan Agricultural College botanist who was a pioneer in the development of hybrid corn and the founder of the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, reminisces about her family and her famous uncle. Fannie and other unidentified speakers engage in a free flowing conversation about genealogy, travel, food, education, and the careers of the extended family. Beal describes her career as a teacher at the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, MI where she began working part time in 1919 and rose to the position of Dean. She describes who is in several photos and talks about their marriages and families. Other speakers who are also relatives of Beal, reminisce about the family. They read from a biography of William Beal.
- Date Issued:
- 1966-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Keith Groty, former director of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR), talks about his family, education and his career as a professor, labor mediator, arbitrator, and negotiator and finally becoming MSU's Assistant Vice President of Personnel and Employee Relations. Groty also talks about attempts to create a faculty union at MSU and the history of the MSU Faculty Grievance Office which he says was an attempt by the MSU to stop another push by faculty for unionization. Groty is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations, via telephone.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Economics Professor and former Dean of the Honors College, Dr. Ronald Fisher, talks about his childhood and youth in upstate New York and growing up in a Sears and Roebuck kit house built by his grandfather. He explains how he came to MSU for his undergraduate work in chemistry and then went to graduate school, majoring in economics, at Brown University. Fisher compares living on the east coast to mid-west living, describes the differences in the teaching environment now and 40 years ago, how students have changed, how the character of universities has changed, how universities are funded, and why tuition is rising. Fisher also talks about his eleven years with the MSU Honors College and says that he believes it attracts high caliber students to the Unviversity. Fisher is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-09-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Professor and turfgrass expert James Beard talks about how he began to assemble what became an extensive collection of turfgrass research from many sources, including research papers, books, academic journals, and periodicals. Beard describes some of the items that make up the collection, including his own correspondence and manuscripts and discusses some of the characteristics of grasses and their management for golf courses, sports fields, and parks. Beard says that his career allowed him to travel the world as a consultant on turfgrass and talks about his varied academic pursuits and what lead him to teach at Michigan State University in the early 1960s.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-03-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the second of two interviews Dale Brickner, professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations and associate director of the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University, talks about being active in Bloomington, Indiana politics while he taught economics and labor relations at Indiana University. Brickner also talks about running the first firefighters union institute, the summer institutes at I.U. run for a variety of unions, local and Indiana political issues involving unions, civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and right to work laws. Brickner is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-07-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection