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- Dr. Douglas Noverr, professor emeritus and former chair of the Michigan State University Department of American Thought and Language, talks about his career at MSU. Noverr describes his childhood, early teaching career, earning his doctorate at Miami University in Ohio and how he came to MSU. He also describes a collegial ATL department which encouraged research and says that even though he found the job of chair to be demandng, it gave him a chance to be very social and work with a team. Noverr says the relationships he built were far more important then the books he wrote. He describes the three volume MSU history he is completing in his retirement. Noverr is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In a spirited oral history interview, Michigan State University Professor Emerita Pauline Adams, widow of MSU economics professor and university president Walter Adams, reminisces about her husband, coming to Michigan State College in 1947, living in faculty housing, and building a home in the faculty developed Lantern Hill neighborhood in East Lansing. Adams also talks about conducting interviews for the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project, teaching in the Department of American Thought and Language as tenure track professor and having James P. Hoffa, son of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, as a student at about the time his father disappeared. Adams says that the ATL curriculum did more for the faculty than the students because it forced faculty to broaden themselves beyond their field of expertise. Interview conducted by MSU Professor John Revitte. Ends abruptly.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Dr. William Strampel D.O., Dean of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, talks about his youth, education and career in the military, medicine and academia. Strampel says that he was drafted into the U.S. Army, served in Vietnam and later re-enlisted and pursued a career in military medicine which included serving in the Army's Special Forces Group One and commanding the Fort Riley Hospital. He came to MSU in 1999 and says that he quickly impressed the university administration with his budget and financial expertise and was made Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2002. Strampel also talks about the growth in the College during his tenure and the lessons he has learned over his long career. Strampel is interviewed by MSU History Professor Emeritus Charles Gliozzo for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert Anderson, Michigan State University professor emeritus of Religious Studies, talks about his life and his career at MSU. After receiving his doctorate from Boston University in 1957, Anderson says that he came to MSU as the university's first full time Religious Studies professor. He says that there was always some opposition to teaching religion on campus and explains how the Religious Studies Department handled teaching religion while honoring the separation of church and state, used local pastors as instructors, and eventually began to include religious traditions other than Christianity and Judaism in its curriculum. He also reflects on his research interests, his love of teaching and the courses he taught, and reluctantly becoming an administrator later in his career. Anderson says that he attended seminary with Martin Luther King Jr. and later listened with delight when King spoke at MSU in 1965. Anderson is interviewed by MSU Professors David Stowe and Jon Keune, and University Development Officer Seth Martin.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-05-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the first 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 his youth, family and education and explains how he became interested in labor issues. Brickner talks about his early labor activism and says that he served on a picket line as a youngster and was struck by a teargas canister. He recalls jobs he had in college that had him advocating for labor rights, working in a steel mill and as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Brickner also talks about graduate school, teaching economics and labor relations and recalls several of the union officials with whom he worked and shares stories of his time working with unions and educators. Brickner is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-07-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sparrow recalls being excited and intrigued by the teaching philosophy of the school, working with the MSU Veterinary School to perfect surgical techniques and sharing his diagnostic expertise with them, helping to create an open-heart surgery program for pediatrics, and the tensions between faculty and a "frugal administration". Sparrow also describes the trade-offs between working in private practice and academia, training students and residents, developing specialties and innovative teaching techniques within the school. Sparrow says that it was always difficult to compete for resources, recruit faculty students and residents, and support top programs in a region as small as Lansing. Retired department administrator and faculty member Dr. David J. Kallen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, conducts the interview. Part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Selma Hollander reflects upon her early life growing up in Brooklyn, NY, her family's efforts to "get ahead", her education and early jobs, and meeting her husband Stanley Hollander on a golf course. She talks frankly about her marriage, maintaining her own identity, Stanley accepting a position at Michigan State University and her experiences getting settled in East Lansing. Hollander also describes earning her art degree at MSU and explains how her involvement with the arts and philanthropy began. Hollander is interviewed by retired Michigan State University Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-12-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Trosko recalls his blue-collar background, his interest in radiation genetics as he pursued a doctorate at MSU, doing post doctorate work in Oakridge, TN and returning to MSU in 1966. He recalls joining the new Department of Pediatrics and Human Development in 1968, teaching genetics, and bio-medical ethics, co-writing textbooks, developing cancer research projects, and joining a 50-year research project on the Japanese atomic bomb casualties. Trosko worries about the effect moving the MSU College of Human Medicine to Grand Rapids will have on students and patient care and contrasts current political realities with a previous sense of mission and family felt by him and other faculty. Retired department administrator and faculty member Dr. David J. Kallen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, conducts the interview. Part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- John Staatz, Michigan State University professor emeritus of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, talks about his career at MSU and his focus on agricultural development in Africa. Staatz talks about why he selected Africa as his area of concentration, his education, and how he came to MSU. He also talks about his research projects in Mali and other West African countries, his focus on food security, and the continuing problem of land ownership impacting agriculture and urbanization in Africa.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-04-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former Michigan State University Vice Presidents for Legal Affairs and General Counsels, Robert Noto and Kristine Zayko, talk about their roles in the administration of the Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP). Noto says that as General Counsel he worked with the MSU Provost to write the university's responses to faculty grievances and explains the process of crafting such a response and the concern that the MSU Provost's always had for treating faculty fairly. Zayko says that she primarily provided advice to MSU department chairs and deans and coached them through the grievance process and rarely appeared at a grievance hearing herself. They both talk about changes made to the FGP through the years and how those changes were carried out. Zayko and Noto are interviewed by Robert Banks, former MSU associate provost and associate vice president for Academic Human Resources and John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor Studies.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-12-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection