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- Grant grew up in Boston and graduated from Boston State College. Grant says she was denied a teaching position in the Boston Public schools due to her race, but was later made Deputy Superintendent for Boston schools after earning her doctorate from Harvard. Grant talks about her work with Episcopal priest James P. Breeden on civil rights issues and with Jonathan Kozol in the Community Schools movement. She came to the Michigan Partnership for New Education in 1991.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- William Donohue, professor of Communication at Michigan State University and former MSU Faculty Grievance Offical (FGO), in a follow-up interview, talks further about his work as FGO. Donohue and interviewer John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus in the School Human Resources and Labor Relations, discuss why he accepted the FGO position and how it fit with his academic interests as well as why the position went to half-time. Donohue and Revitte compare their respective experiences as FGO and discuss some of the reasons why grievances were filed. Donohue says he tried to counsel administrators on how to resolve matters with a less confrontational approach and advocates for the value of mediating disagreements instead of filing a grievance.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-04-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for Academic Human Resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College of Michigan State University, discusses with interviewer John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus from the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, talk about the evolving MSU Faculty Grievance Office and the grievance process. They also discuss Revitte's attempts to document the history of MSU's Faculty Grievance Office and the value a history may have for other institutions attempting to create their own grievance process.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dave Smith, recycling coordinator for Michigan State University, gives a presentation about the ways the campus recycles and the processes it uses. Smith discusses the principle of "highest use" and the role which the MSU Surplus Store and the Recycling Center play in fulfilling that principle. Smith also focuses on how the Surplus Store and Recycling Center handle the large number of books they receive every semester. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Environmental Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retired Michigan State University Professor E. James Potchen, former chair of the MSU Radiology Department, reflects upon his early life and education at MSU, his career in medicine and radiology and his experience with with MSU's Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP). Potchen says that he returned to MSU in 1975 to become Chair of the Radiology Department and persuaded the administration that a radiology building could be a profit center for the university. Potchen also gives his opinion of the FGP, talks about various Faculty Grievance Officials (FGO) he worked with, and recalls some of the cases he was involved in while advocating for the the university administration. Potchen is interviewed by John Revitte, former MSU professor of Human Resources and Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Keith Groty, former MSU Assistant Vice President of Personnel and Employee Relations, talks about his involvement with the university's Faculty Grievance Procedure (FGP). Groty says that he supported the FGP because he saw it as a mechanism for heading off faculty unionization, but that he really didn't have a role in the development of the FGP or the position of Faculty Grievance Official (FGO). Groty also says that MSU's FGP has worked through the years because it found an appropriate balance between the administration's power and faculty concerns. He talks about the failed faculty attempts at unionization and says that the main issue at MSU was always the disparity in faculty pay. Groty is interviewed by Robert Banks, former Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at MSU, and John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations. Via telephone.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Norman Abeles, professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, discusses his life and career and his experiences as MSU Faculty Grievance Officer. Abeles talks about his childhood in Austria, his education and coming to MSU in 1957. Abeles tells anecdotes about several MSU Presidents and talks about attempts by MSU faculty to unionize, cases he handled as MSU Faculty Grievance Officer, and legendary MSU Economics Professor Charles "Lash" Larrowe. Abeles is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-09-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Barnett "Barney" Rosenberg is interviewed by David Brown shortly after the scientist won the Kettering Foundation award for his discovery of Cisplatin, the worlds leading cancer curative.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-06-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Kathy Hoag, professor of immunology at Michigan State University and a presiding officer at MSU faculty grievance hearings, talks about the difficulties MSU professors face in balancing their teaching schedules, research and personal time with the demands which the university places on them to earn tenure. She says that the pressure faculty members face to get tenure is not sustainable. Hoag also talks about the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP), her duties as a presiding officer, working with faculty who are unfamiliar with the FGP, ways in which the FGP succeeds, and her recommendations for improving FGP. Hoag is interviewed by John Revitte, former MSU professor Human Resources and Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-05-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1966-06-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection