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- M. Cecil Mackey, former president of Michigan State University and current professor of economics, discusses his education, career, and tenure as MSU President. Mackey talks about his efforts to maintain the authority of the MSU Board of Trustees and planning the Breslin Center while president and his time as an economics professor since he left the presidency. Mackey also reminisces about his early career as counsel for the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Department of Transportation, as well as his early posts as President of the University of South Florida and Texas Tech. Mackey says that military conscription in both World War II and the Korean War had a definite impact on his education and discusses his opinions on the current state of higher education. Mackey is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- M. Cecil Mackey, former president of Michigan State University and current professor of economics, discusses his education, career, and tenure as MSU President. Mackey talks about his efforts to maintain the authority of the MSU Board of Trustees and planning the Breslin Center while president and his time as an economics professor since he left the presidency. Mackey also reminisces about his early career as counsel for the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Department of Transportation, as well as his early posts as President of the University of South Florida and Texas Tech. Mackey says that military conscription in both World War II and the Korean War had a definite impact on his education and discusses his opinions on the current state of higher education. Mackey is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
- 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