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- Matthew Wojciechowski, a student at Michigan State University, discusses growing up in Dearborn Heights, MI, the community's middle class lifestyle, adjusting to the diversity at MSU, first selecting Engineering as his major to please and impress his father, and later switching to Graphic Design. He also talks about foreign students in his classes, the competitiveness he says that they bring, and how other students resent them, career possibilities in his major, conflicts with professors, managing college life, the dorm, and blowing off steam. He says that he aspires to be married with kids and living in a rural area while pursuing his profession.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-05-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- African cartoonist Tebogo Motswetla of Botswana talks about his comic and cartoon art and his star character "Mabijo", who he uses to express social and cultural themes from everyday life. He also explains the nature of his social commentary and the career he has built, which includes teaching art and running his cartooning business. Motswetla plays excerpts from an animated HIV prevention series he has created. Michigan State University Librarian Randall Scott talks about the MSU Libraries' comic art collection and his goal to build a strong African comics component. Kurt Dewhurst, director of arts and cultural initiatives at MSU, explains the university's outreach efforts in Africa. MSU Librarian Peter Limb convenes the event and introduces Motswetla. Held in the Michigan State University Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-10-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former Michigan State University Faculty Grievance Official Mary Brady, who came to MSU in 1972 to work in the College of Human Medicine, talks about her education and career and why she decided to accept the FGO position. She also talks about the status of the office when she first took on the job and all of the steps she took to improve the operation. Brady says that many of the faculty grievances she first encountered revolved around salary disputes and that there were tremendous variations between the colleges in how they evaluated faculty and determined pay raises. She also talks about why she retired and what she thinks that she accomplished during her tenure. Revitte shares his FGO experiences.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-10-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. George Eyster, DVM, talks about his career in veterinary cardiology and developing surgical techniques and conducting research at Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Eyster talks about his mentors at MSU and developing open heart surgery procedures for animals, while at the same time, ground breaking procedures for humans were also being developed. He also describes sharing facilities with the College of Human Medicine at MSU, techniques used for both human and animal surgery, and cooperative programs with hospitals such as Ingham Medical in Lansing, Michigan. Eyster comments on changes in veterinary medicine, the decline in veterinary cardiac care, and how the animal rights movement has affected the availability of animals for research. Part of the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor Emeritus E. James Potchen, M.D., former Chair of the MSU Radiology Department, reflects upon his life and career at Michigan State University. Potchen talks about his parent's passion for education, their careers and their influence on his life. He describes his own academic history, including becoming both a doctor and a lawyer, his research and teaching positions and his fascination with nuclear medicine. Potchen also discusses coming to MSU to establish the Radiology Department as the university medical school was being created and the various academic and research projects which took him around the world. He points with pride to the memorial garden at the Radiology Building which was created with his financial support and guidance and he says that MSU was "a wonderful place to live a life." Potchen is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, continues his discussion of the MSU Faculty Grievance Office and the grievance process. Banks talks about how the process evolved and how it filled a gap allowing for the resolution of issues that might have been filled by a faculty union, the people who served as grievance officer over the years, the role of the MSU President, the dissemination of FGO decisions, the appeals process, the need to have a set of uniform standards for handling grievances, and confidentiality. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Second of seven interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-01-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Francisco Villarruel, professor of Family and Child Ecology at Michigan State University and the current Faculty Grievance Official (FGO), talks about how he became FGO, his duties and who he turns to for advice. He also talks about some of the cases he has handled, recent changes in the FGO position and recommendations he has made to the MSU Provost to improve the Faculty Grievance Policy. Villarruel is interviewed by John Revitte, former MSU FGO and professor emeritus of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Revitte also hares stories from his days as FGO.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-03-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- John Cantlon, former Michigan State University provost, talks about his career and the beginnings of the university's Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP). Cantlon, who came to MSU in 1954 and moved into administration in 1969, says that the FGP was created after a failed attempt by faculty to unionize and discusses how the procedure was created and what parts worked in the past and should now be improved. Cantlon also talks about the campus student protests, the founding of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at MSU, the search for a new university president, fighting the Michigan Legislature for funding and his relationship with the MSU Board of Trustees. Cantlon is 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:
- 2018-12-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Kim Wilcox, former Michigan State University provost and current chancellor of the University of California at Riverside, talks about his involvement in the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP) and the role of the university's Faculty Grievance Official (FGO). Wilcox recalls participating in a review of the FGP and making recommendations for improvement, encouraging all MSU faculty to serve on FGP review panels, and explains the role of the MSU's General Counsel in the faculty grievance process. Wilcox says that he believes that the FGP has been an effective way to resolve conflicts and disagreements in the academic system. Wilcox is interviewed by Robert Banks, former MSU associate vice president for Academic Human Resources and John Revitte, former MSU professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Rout describes her childhood and young adult years in upstate New York as a Catholic school student, her high school and college years, graduate school at Stanford and getting her job at MSU in 1967. She also talks about her interest in pop culture and literature, her research on the Black Panthers, her role in the evolution of ATL Department and her emphasis on minority studies and the history and culture of the 1960s. Part of the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University graduate Mark Woodhouse talks about growing up in urban Detroit with his father and suburban Ann Arbor with his mother. Woodhouse credits the environment in Ann Arbor with pushing him towards college and speculates on the apparent lack of desire for higher education among minorities. He says he enjoyed the integrated campus at MSU and talks about his freshman year and shares some of his experiences in dealing with his white dorm mates. Woodhouse explains why he majored in telecommunications after a physics class and an internship ended his aspirations of majoring in engineering. He calls telecommunications a really difficult field to break into and can't predict what he will be doing in ten years. Woodhouse hopes that he can work in film industry but says that he needs more family support to move to Los Angeles to make it happen.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-12-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University freshman Mari Nord talks about her Japanese and Norwegian heritage, her professor father and businesswoman mother, living in East Lansing, and her great love for traveling. Nord describes Japanese culture, the Japanese education system, and learning the language while in nursery school. She says that she feels torn between Japanese and American culture and gets along best at MSU with international students. She talks about adjusting to college life, majoring in veterinary medicine, and hoping to work with endangered species and says that she does not simply want to have a job and family if that means settling down in one place.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Professor David Wiley, former Director of the Michigan State University African Studies Center, is interviewed by MSU Librarian Peter Limb and John Metzler, MSU Professor of Education. Wiley reflects on his youth in Harrisburg, Illinois and an upbringing of manual labor and familiarity with rural life which he says prepared him for his career studying Africa. Wiley describes attending Yale Divinity school and going to Africa on an internship to work on race issues. He talks about life in Rhodesia and Southern Africa, Apartheid, poverty, education, religion, and class. Wiley also explains why he came to MSU after teaching at the University of Wisconsin, appreciating the activism at MSU, and his relations with other faculty associated with the African Studies Center. Wiley describes a number of MSU initiatives in Africa, his activity in the anti-Apartheid movement and finally visiting a free South Africa. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University graduate Josie Gray talks about her childhood in Rochester, MI and her dreams of going to college and having a career. Gray also discusses her experiences in James Madison College at MSU and explains why she decided to major in the very competitive field of advertising. She talks about living on and off campus during her college years and describes how difficult it was meeting the expectations of her roommates and the differences between living with males and females. Gray credits her mother with helping prepare her for a life of independence and says that she hopes to one day own her own business and live in Metro Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-09-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Harris Frank Beeman discusses his involvement in social justice for South Africa, a cause he pursued while serving as Michigan State University's tennis coach and Director of Intramural Sports, and Recreation Services. Dr. David Wiley, Director of the MSU African Studies Center, and Peter Limb, MSU Libraries Area Studies Librarian, interview Beeman. Beeman describes his early involvement in civil rights issues in the U.S. and leading fair housing protests in East Lansing in the 1960s. He also talks about getting involved with the South African Liberation Committee (SALC) in the 1970s at MSU, spearheading efforts to get selective purchase policies passed by East Lansing City Council and the MSU Board of Trustees, and pushing the University and the State of Michigan to divest from holdings in South Africa. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-12-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. David Dwyer, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Linguistics and African Studies and his wife Annabel are interviewed by Dr. David Wiley, Director of the MSU African Studies Center. Dwyer talks about his youth, education and first jobs. Annabel talks about joining the Peace Corps and credits David Dwyer and his family for being instrumental in the creation of the Peace Corp. She recalls working in Cameroon in the early 1960s, meeting and marrying David, coming to East Lansing, and earning a Masters in Urban Planning from MSU. The Dwyers reflect on working in West African countries just after the end of colonial rule and describe the creation of the African Language Program at MSU. Both reflect on their antiwar activities, founding the Peace Education Center in East Lansing, and the African Studies Center at MSU. They also talk about their anti-Apartheid work, political activism in general and how they plan to spend their retirement years. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-10-20T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Seagull, who joined the department in 1971, recalls the shift of the medical school to a four-year program and talks about the school's multidisciplinary approach to community medicine, the collegiality of the early faculty, and their innovative approaches to teaching and patient care. She says the department grew very rapidly and that the University encouraged faculty to be innovative. She also describes efforts to recruit minority and female students and trying to make the male dominated culture more sensitive to female students and residents. 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:
- 2005-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Award-winning environmentalist and writer Alison Swan talks about teaching English and writing, but needing lots of time to wander in the woods. She also discusses her Michigan and Michigan State University connections, her family, the intriguing nature of the freshwater seas of the Great Lakes, and her intent to write more about the Great Lakes basin in prose and poetry. Swan is interviewed by Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-11-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, talks about the evolution and history of the Faculty Grievance Policy at MSU, the debate about faculty unionization and the definition of bargaining units on campus, MSU's efforts to resist unionization, and the various failed attempts to gather a faculty majority for unionization. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Fifth of seven interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor Emeritus of Economics C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, talks about his family and childhood in Portland, OR, how his interest in working class issues and unionism grew and why he chose economics as a way of teaching about labor issues. Larrowe describes his early union experiences while in college, joining the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, his service in World War Two, getting his first professorship at the University of Utah, and finally coming to work at the Labor and Industrial Relations Center at MSU. Larrowe discusses settling in at MSU and the people he worked with including, Jack Stieber, Charles Killingsworth, and MSU President John Hannah. He also explains the tensions between the Labor School and state conservatives and why the MSU faculty grievance system was created in the face of professors being terminated. Larrowe says he left the Labor School and moved to the Economics Department when his research and published material was threatened with censorship. Larrowe is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-06-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University senior Jory Burroughs, majoring in Animal Science, talks about his home life, and family in Bath, MI and the experience of moving to Michigan from Alberta, Canada as a seven year-old. Burroughs talks about his parents and how they influenced his college decisions and explains how he evaluated his options and made his career choice. Burroughs also discusses his work as a Residence Hall Adviser at MSU, his own adjustment to college life, drinking patterns on campus, and what he sees as the value of a college education. Burroughs says that he is an optimist and that in next ten years he expects to be an equine surgeon practicing in Minnesota and that he hopes to start his own family.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-10-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor discusses his international career as a geneticist, physician, faculty member and administrator, much of it spent in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. Ajovi recalls coming to MSU from Nigeria in 1965 as an undergraduate, joining the department as a graduate student in 1968 and working with the original faculty. He describes the college's early curriculum and focus on patient care and recognizes the uniqueness of pioneering efforts now copied at many other institutions. Ajovi also talks about returning to Nigeria to become Director of the Institute of Child Health and later coming back to MSU as a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development. He says that collegiality in the department has now waned in the face of administration changes, retirements, and plans to move the school to Grand Rapids. Sociology Professor Meritus Dr. David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Africana Librarian Joe Lauer is interviewed by Peter Limb about Lauer's career at Michigan State and the development of the Africana Collection at the MSU Libraries. Lauer discusses the history of the International Library within the MSU Libraries and how MSU's involvement with the University of Nigeria at Nsukka during the 1960's created a demand by faculty for more books about Africa. Lauer talks about his own interest in African Studies, how he came to work at Michigan state and describes projects that he has been involved in over the years, both at MSU and on a national level. Lauer and Limb, who is also an MSU Africana Librarian, also discuss the challenges and rewards associated with Africana librarianship, focusing specifically on collection development and cataloging. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Curtis, a trained nurse, followed her husband to MSU, moved into married housing, and describes being recruited to teach part-time in the MSU School of Nursing. She talks about her involvement with many projects and initiatives, her influence on the nursing program at MSU, her development of an ethics curriculum for medical professionals, and her position as the University Ombudsman from 1991 until her retirement in 1999.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-06-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sister Betty Gaiss discusses her experiences teaching medical ethics in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development within the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. Gaiss recalls her life as a Dominican nun, teaching high school, and her interest in philosophy and ethics. She recalls coming to work at MSU in 1974, techniques she used to train physicians in ethical considerations, making rounds, and the value of being in contact with patients while learning and teaching ethics. She speaks fondly of about leaving MSU for another position, teaching ethics at Lansing Community College for 25 years, working with community groups, teaching care and ethics to clergy, cancer patients, and families, and helping found Hospice of Lansing. She speaks fondly of Pediatrics and Human Development and says that her experiences in the department led to many other opportunities in her life. Retired department 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:
- 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Johnson describes the early years of the college, which featured rugged schedules and low pay for faculty, the freedom to create programs and be innovative, and team building with hospitals around the state of Michigan. Johnson also describes how John Hannah, former president of the university, started the medical school at MSU in the face of pressure to place a school in Grand Rapids, his own fears for the future of the college if it becomes too closely identified with West Michigan and his belief that it would be best for the college to stay based in East Lansing with working partners around the state.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-06-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former Michigan State University Trustee Delores M. (Dee) Cook talks about her life changing relationship with the Michigan State. She recalls her youth in Detroit, her budding singing career in local radio, coming to MSU to major in Communication Arts, campus life in the early nineteen-fifties and the atmosphere of excitement and challenge on campus. An emotional Cook reflects on her love of the University, her early married life and what brought her to run for the position of Trustee. She also discuses being recruited by John Engler to run for the board, the creation of the Wharton Center and the Broad School of Business, the duties of the trustees, hiring a university president, dealing with controversy, and the great value of university faculty. Cook is interviewed by Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-11-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University senior Ken Webster talks about growing up in Detroit, his family, his childhood, and watching his neighborhood decline. Webster says he started thinking about a career in film and graphics while still a child and that this dream led him to MSU. He describes the transition between high school and college, why he chose MSU over a commercial art school and how he thinks that choice will affect his future career. He says that ultimately, he wants to have a family and a nice home in the suburbs.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-05-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- University of Illinois graduate student Andrew Tenopir-Lundeen delivers a talk entitled "Tales From The Vault: The Special Collections Provenance Project". Tenopir-Lundeen worked on the Provenance Project while serving as an intern at Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections unit in 2013. He defines the word "provenance" in relation to special collections and talks about using bindings, bookplates, and margin notes to help determine rarity, age and ownership of the volumes. Lundeen answers questions from the audience and is introduced by Head of Special Collections Peter Berg. Part of the MSU Libraries' Brown Bag Series held in the Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University freshman Ted Stockton says he does not know what he will major in, but hopes to be a college professor like his father. Stockton talks about his hometown of Dearborn, MI, its large Arab-American population, and managing to do well in high school, without studying. He describes the academic and social adjustments he has made as a new college student and says that college is really the time to develop the ability to relate to and get along with others. Stockton also talks about his academic interests and says that he has no interest pursuing a degree just for the money.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-06-06T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- 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:
- Saroj Kapur discusses her career as a professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. Kapur recalls coming to the university in 1969 from India and discusses her interest in genetics, and teaching, and relationships within the department. Kapur also comments on gender and cultural differences she has experienced in her career, what she describes as declining emphasis on the teaching of genetics in the department, the cost of health care, the proposed move of the MSU Medical College to Grand Rapids, and the necessity of a continuing relationship between graduates, physicians, clinicians, residents, and students to improve medical education. Sociology Professor Emeritus Dr. David J. Kallen, conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-08-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, continues his explanation of the Faculty Grievance Officer and the grievance process at MSU. Banks talks about technicalities in the process, its evolution, how it works or doesn't with the tenure system, and the roles of the MSU Provost and the University President. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Third of seven interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-02-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- 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
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, talks about coming to MSU in 1967 with a joint appointment to both James Madison College and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR). Banks also talks about the founding of SLIR as a school, push-back by the MSU College of Business which felt SLIR duplicated their degree offerings, courses he taught, the administration of SLIR, and personality conflicts between SLIR faculty and the MSU administration. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Fourth of seven interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-03-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Twenty-three year-old Michigan State University graduate Ronald Gillum talks about growing up in East Lansing and Lansing, MI after moving from Detroit. Gillum says that his parents are both college educated professionals and that he always felt that he was expected to go to college and he explains why he chose a career in business and public administration over professional sports. Gillum believes that in ten years he will be married with a family, will be working in Michigan state government and perhaps will hold elective office. Gillum also describes the differences in the workload between high school and college, relates a humorous incident which happened while he lived in a coed dorm and comments on his professors and courses.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Charles Killingsworth discusses the establishment of the Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Center in 1956, which later became the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR). Killingsworth, who came to MSU in 1947 to teach economics, says that he was asked by MSU President John Hannah to start and head the SLIR. He gives details on the school's beginnings, and explains why it was considered important by the university to provide an extension service to labor and business with accompanying research and scholarship. He also discusses faculty he hired through the years, the school's relationship with labor organizations, how the school expanded to offer graduate degrees and why he left the directorship to focus on teaching and arbitration, Ends abruptly. Killingsworth is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-10-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, talks about his childhood in northern New Jersey, his education, becoming interested in labor studies, working with union training programs while in school in England, and earning a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Banks talks about labor issues of the day, the abilities of the union members with whom he worked, and the political climate in Britain. He describes how he came to meet his wife then talks extensively about labor issues and the role he played in Britain and the U.S., discusses the general labor movement, then covers a number of researchers and authors. John Revitte explains the information he would like to obtain from Banks at future interviews including the history of the Faculty Grievance Office at MSU, Banks' association with the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at MSU, and issues around unionization at the University, and the office of Ombudsman for faculty and students. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. First of six interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-12-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a lecture entitled "Borges and MSU", Michigan State University Professor Emeritus Donald A. Yates discusses his long personal and professional relationship with acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yates describes Borges' childhood, reads from his work and tells of helping bring the author to MSU as an artist in residence in 1976. Yates says that knowing Borges "is probably the most important thing in my life". Yates is introduced by MSU Assistant Director of Libraries Peter Berg and MSU Professor Michael Koppisch.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-10-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former Michigan State University Provost David Scott talks about coming to MSU in 1978, joining the university administration in 1983 and his interaction with the Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP). Scott discusses how the FGP worked and what made it effective, the process for choosing and removing Faculty Grievance Officials (FGO), and the personal style of some of the former FGOs. Scott also talks about the tension in universities between teaching and research and how this tension affects strategic planning, hiring, salaries, and administrative priorities. Scott is interviewed by Robert Banks, former MSU associate provost and associate vice president for Academic Human Resources John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus in the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-01-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, continues with his discussion about the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy and his career at MSU. Banks begins by recalling how his interest in Jazz music developed and his role in establishing a solid Jazz program at MSU. Returning to the grievance process, Banks suggests other administrators who might be potential interviewees. He shares his perspective on the several attempts to organize a faculty union on campus, the complications, the arguments for and against, the competition between AFT and AAUP, areas of support and opposition in the university, and union organizing efforts with other staff and graduate students. Banks reflects on union successes at other universities, the number of different unions trying to organize on campus, and issues with the process of negotiations. He concludes by revisiting some points with the grievance procedure recommendations. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Sixth of six interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-10-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Donald Kaufman discusses his career as a Professor of Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. Kaufman describes joining the department in 1971, knowing little about MSU and East Lansing, but welcoming the freedom to work as he wished. He talks about his many interests, pursuing several projects simultaneously and eventually specializing in health care policy. Kaufman recalls the efforts to establish a true university hospital at MSU and how the plan was rejected by the University administration. Kaufman also talks about teaching, his students, his colleagues, and his department's many challenges and accomplishments throughout his tenure. David J. Kallen, MSU Professor Emeritus of Sociology, conducts the interview. Part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-05-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former Michigan State University Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources Robert Banks and John Revitte former professor in the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, discuss their current research project in which they intend to document the forty-year-history of the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP) and the MSU Faculty Grievance Official (FGO). They discuss how they will approach writing their paper, areas in which they need additional information, which past MSU administrators should be interviewed and a review of reports written by past Faculty Grievance Officials.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Science fiction writer Scott Huggins talks about why he came to Michigan State University for his M.A., how he became published, themes in his stories, his day job in East Lansing. He also gives advice to people who want to be writers. Huggins is interviewed by MSU librarian Leslie Behm for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-03-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- M. Peter McPherson, former president of Michigan State University, reflects on his time at MSU and particularly his involvement with the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP) and the Faculty Grievance Official (FGO). McPherson talks about the effectiveness of the FGP and its weaknesses and the rationale for some of the specific changes he brought to the FGP during his tenure as MSU President. He also describes one grievance in particular which required significant university resources to shepherd through the process and says that he was finally forced to intervene personally in order to bring resolution to the matter. McPherson is interviewed by Bob Banks, former Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at MSU, and John Revitte, former MSU professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University freshman Brian Chu talks about his Chinese and Scot parents and his youth in Florida. Chu also talks about his high school experience and making the adjustment to college and having roommates in the dorm. He says that he would like to have a hotel management career like his father and hopes someday to also have a home and family of his own.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-05-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Irene Collier, administrative professional for the Christman Company in Lansing, Michigan, talks about her duties on the project to renovate, restore, and construct new portions of the Snyder-Phillips Halls complex to house the new Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) on the campus of Michigan State University. Collier explains Christman's role as general contractor, the complexity of the project, and the challenges of coordinating the schedules of thirty different subcontractors. She also talks about a dispute over using a non-union contractor, prevailing wage requirements, and how it feels to be the lone female working on the project.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sheila Teahan, professor of English at Michigan State University, recounts her time as MSU Faculty Grievance Official (FGO). Teahan talks about the advisability of the job being half-time, former FGOs, how the Faculty Grievance Policy works and how the FGP is currently operating since President Lou Anna Simon resigned. She also talks about a grievance settlement which was overturned by president Simon, describes a copyright ownership dispute between a faculty member and the MSU Board of Trustees and says that she is frustrated that MSU faculty are not represented by a labor union. Teahan is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations and a former MSU FGO.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University pre-medical junior Andy Kim talks about his childhood in Korea, immigrating to the U.S. at age 16, and settling in Battle Creek, Michigan. Kim says that his father brought the family to the U.S. for greater opportunities and hoped that his sons would become doctors. He discuses the challenges of adapting to a different culture and to life at MSU and says that he feels caught between Korea and the United States. Kim also says it is important to have a respected profession because he is not white and aspires to a life in the suburbs with cars and kids. Kim also says that he thinks about other careers and may try dental school if he fails to qualify for medical school, even though his father is very insistent that he become a doctor.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-05-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Twenty-four-year-old Michigan State University graduate Shantae Cannon talks about her childhood in Hayti, MO and moving to Lansing, MI at the age of eleven. Cannon also talks about her education, her desire to learn, participating in an MSU "Upward Bound" program, being the first person in her family to graduate from college, and her job with the State of Michigan. She says that she has a difficult time projecting where she will be in ten years and that a career is not as important to her as continuing to learn.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Beth Shapiro, deputy director of the Michigan State University Libraries, discusses her involvement in the the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) while an MSU student between 1967 and 1971. Shapiro talks about members of SDS, the Weathermen faction, surveillance by MSU and East Lansing police, the infiltration of SDS by law enforcement, the 1968 SDS convention, SDS leaders, and student demonstrations at the MSU ROTC and Union buildings. Shapiro says that she came to SDS from the civil rights movement, but never liked the violence that SDS advocated. She also talks about the shootings at Kent State University, the bombing of Cambodia, and the 1970 student strike and says that her high school civil rights activism in Boston, MA prepared her for her activism at MSU. Shaprio is interviewed by graduate student Kenneth Heineman.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Howard Brody discusses his career as a physician, Professor in the Department of Family Practice at Michigan State University, and Director of MSU's Center for Ethics and the Humanities. Brody also describes pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy while in medical school, his early research, how he began to specialize in teaching medical ethics, Olin Health Center as MSU's early college hospital, moving to the new Life Sciences building, his residency in Virginia, and the creation of the Center for Ethics and the Humanities. MSU Professor Emeritus David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University junior Connie Tingson talks about her Filipino heritage, growing up in Livonia, Michigan, and attending private Catholic schools. Tingson also reflects upon being an Asian-American, American perceptions of Asian academic superiority, her high school curriculum, her difficult transition to college life, and the racism she has experienced. Tingson says that she first wanted to be doctor, but now wants to practice international law and have a family.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-05-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- On the eve of his retirement, Michigan State University Anthropology Professor Moreau Maxwell discusses his career in anthropology and philosophy of research using examples from his own experiences. Maxwell is interviewed by his colleague, MSU Anthropology Professor Joseph Spielberg Benitez. The interview is conducted in Baker Hall.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-05-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University interim President John Engler, acting C.E.O. of the U.S. Olympic Committee Susanne Lyons, President and CEO of USA Gymnastics Kerry Perry, and Chair of the U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete's Advisory Council Han Xiao testify before a Senate Commerce subcommittee about changes their institutions have made and will make to protect amateur athletes from abuse. Engler is questioned by the subcommittee about an alleged exchange Engler had with Kaylee Lorincz, an abuse survivor of Larry Nassar, in which Lorincz claims that Engler offered her money to drop her civil suit against MSU. Engler denies this allegation and says that while he did meet with Lorincz without her attorney present, he never offered her money.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Prescott describes many of the challenges the profession and the MVMA faced during his tenure, including mandatory continuing education for veterinarians and a failed attempt to develop an accreditation program. He also talks about some of the people with whom he served, including the first woman president of the association, Mary Beth Leininger, the ever increasing number of female veterinarians, the close ties between the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the MVMA, tracking legislation which could have an unintended impact on veterinarians, and dealing with animal welfare laws. The interviewer is Dr. Jan Krehbiel, MSU Professor of Veterinary Medicine Emeritus, for the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association oral histories.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-09-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Mordechai Kreinin, professor emeritus of Economics at Michigan State University, explains what brought him from Israel to the University of Michigan to study and to MSU in 1957 to teach. Kreinin, the longest serving professor in the history of MSU, talks about his knack for teaching, his graduate students, fellow faculty, his passion for tennis, teaching Bible study at his synagogue, why he opposed a faculty union at MSU, and his activities in retirement. Kreinin is interviewed by retired MSU Labor Studies Professor John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-09-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ralph Gordon discusses his career as a physician, professor, researcher, and administrator, much of it spent in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. He talks about coming to teach at MSU in 1972, leaving to help start a medical school in Texas and later working in Saginaw, Flint, and Kalamazoo while maintaining a relationship with MSU. Gordon says that medical training is moving to a trade school model rather than being an academic endeavor and that MSU's mission to produce primary care physicians is in direct conflict with the creation of the new MSU research institute in Grand Rapids. He also talks about his interest in medical history and his activities in retirement. MSU Sociology Professor Emeritus Dr. David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-05-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an oral history interview, Selma Hollander talks with retired Michigan State University faculty Dixie Platt about their fifty-year friendship. Platt reminisces about coming to Hollander's home and tip toeing through an art project that Hollander had laid out on her living room floor. Platt also talks about living next door to the Hollanders in the Marilyn Apartments as a new faculty member and being introduced to other MSU faculty and administrators by the Hollanders when she came to visit. Hollander talks about pursuing her bachelor's and masters' degrees at MSU, exhibiting her art at various venues including, the Wharton Center, teaching classes, aging, fashion and travel. She also talks about her husband Stanley's blindness and how, with her help, he was able to continue teaching and traveling and her recent one-hundredth birthday party. The third of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- David Murley reminisces about his former professor C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, Michigan State University professor of economics. Murley talks about working as Larrowe's teaching assistant, their political differences, Larrowe's eccentricities, and Larrowe's involvement in controversies surrounding the Vietnam war, government surveillance, race relations, and MSU's ROTC program. Murley also talks about Larrowe's war experiences on Okinawa during WWII, his personal life, his association with Students for a Democratic Society, and Larrowe's lawsuit against MSU for forcing him into retirement. Murley is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Pauline Adams, retired professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University and wife of former MSU President Walter Adams, joins John Revitte, retired professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, to talk about her life and the practice of oral history. Adams talks about living in the Cherry Lane faculty housing on campus, being part of the forty founding families of the Lantern Hill neighborhood in East Lansing and teaching at MSU. She also talks about her efforts, with the help of the Vincent Voice Library, to conduct oral history interviews with retired MSU faculty and describes how she structures the interviews and asks questions which encourage interviewee participation. Revitte also talks about how he approaches collecting oral history interviews, the recording equipment he uses, his question structure, and saving the interviews for posterity. Revitte and Adams answer questions from the audience and Adams relates a story about her husband and Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight. Held at the monthly meeting of the MSU Retiree Association and convened by Etta Abraham.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University alumni and award-winning authors Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane answer questions from an overflow audience at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts during an event titled, "Michigan Author Homecoming." The three authors talk about their love for dogs and the shared theme of "love and nothingness" in their stories. They also discuss how they became interested in words and writing when very young, how they relate to their characters, and their experiences while students at MSU. Sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council and the Michigan State University Libraries.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-07-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, Michigan State University professor emeritus of economics talks about his association with Jack Stieber, director of MSU's School of Labor and Industrial Relations, about several other persons with whom he worked, some of the classes he taught, and his many students over the years. He recalls the shift on the MSU Board of Trustees from Republican to Democratic and the role played by the UAW and the state Democratic party in MSU affairs. Larrowe also recalls his involvement in various MSU administrative initiatives and criticizes what he calls an "aloof" administration and a "compliant" faculty. Larrowe candidly discusses fellow faculty, what he calls their lack of motivation, why they stay at MSU, their failure to publish, and their salaries. Ends abruptly. Larrowe is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-07-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert Repas, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR), discusses his career and the history of SLIR. Repas talks about his earliest days as a labor advocate in Wisconsin, how SLIR was staffed and various people he worked with through the years, the Michigan Legislature's investigation into the school and its mission, his relationship with MSU President John Hannah, SLIR programs and seminars, the MSU Faculty Grievance Office, and his involvement in the drives to unionize MSU faculty. Repas says that he believes that his telephone was tapped through most of the 1960s because of his association with the ACLU and his run-ins with members of the John Birch Society. Repas is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Fisher talks about earning a doctorate in Islamic and Byzantine Art History while teaching and raising a family and reflects on sharing her love of art and culture with generations of students and art patrons. She discusses her role in developing the docent-training program at Kresge, the value of arts and culture to international understanding and the career opportunities now available to women.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and that from their earliest days in East Lannsing, they were financial supporters of MSU in many different areas including art, music, Jewish studies, and museums. She says that she and her husband funded more than a dozen endowments at MSU and she speaks with particular pride about their work in the creation and support of Michigan State University' Wharton Performing Arts Center. Hollander says that her life has been intimately intertwined with MSU and that the University gave her and her husband a place to enjoy a meaningful and exciting life. The second of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Deborah Wagenaar DO, MS, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry, talks about her career at MSU, specializing in geriatric psychiatry, and working with older adults and their multiple medical problems. Wagenaar says she was born and raised in Southeast Michigan and did her undergrad at Wayne State University. She describes the work environment in the College as "feeling like home." Wagenaar says she was initially reluctant to pursue psychiatry but it grew on her over time. She says she has a goal of inspiring students to pursue geriatric psychiatry as a specialty and recommends exposing students to older patients early in their education. Wagenaar talks about the current state of psychiatric education and how the neurosciences are likely to change the field. She talks about some of the advances in the field for treating depression, dementia, and other maladies.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert D. Vassen, retired Associate Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University is interviewed by John Metzler, African Studies Center Outreach Coordinator and Peter Limb, Michigan State University Librarian and Africana Bibliographer. Vassen discusses growing up in South Africa during the late 1940's and 1950's as an Indian and living in the Indian community of Fordsburg, near Johannesburg. Vassen says he was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and in 1962, joined the illegal military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Forced into exile in London in 1964, Vassen says he continued to be an active member of the ANC and edited "Letters From Robben Island: a selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989."
- Date Issued:
- 2005-01-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Jack Stieber, former director of Michigan State University's School of Labor and Industrial Relations, talks with John Revitte, MSU professor of labor and industrial relations, and offers clarifications and edits on the history of the labor school to Revitte for a historical paper Revitte is writing. Stieber elaborates on some points as he clarifies. Ends abruptly.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University African Studies Director David Wiley interviews George and Nancy Axinn on their seven years experience at University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), established with MSU faculty and US AID funding from the late 1950s. The Axinns talk about the involvement of Nigeria's first President Nnamdi Azikiwe and University Vice Chancellor Kalu Ezera, experiences of the numerous MSU faculty and staff at Nsukka, adoption of a unique higher education model different from the British/colonial model and attuned, like the MSU land grant model, to local needs through applied and social sciences and humanities including agriculture, engineering and nutrition/home economics, similarities between the Continuing Education Centre (UNN) and Kellogg Center (MSU), exchanges between MSU and UNN, and disruption and violence of the Biafran War of 1967-70 and evacuation of MSU faculty, personnel, and families.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Jack Stieber, former director of Michigan State University's School of Labor and Industrial Relations, reminisces about his childhood and youth, early employment, how he became interested in labor issues, and the history of the MSU labor school. He discusses his military service in World War Two, his graduate studies at the University of Minnesota and Harvard, coming to MSU, and later becoming director of the new School of Labor and Industrial Relations. Stieber also comments on the operations and structure of the labor school, its funding, the pros and cons of hiring faculty without doctorates, faculty personalities, and his own areas of research. Ends abruptly. Stieber is interviewed by MSU professor of labor and industrial relations, John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-06-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Director of Libraries Richard E. Chapin delivers his final address to library staff as he prepares for retirement. Chapin reviews the history and growth of the MSU Libraries and comments on funding, collections, space planning and the needs of library users. He predicts that the library of the future, driven by technology, will need to position itself to serve a constituency which will expect to use collections and services remotely, outside of the typical library building. Chapin also shares several personal anecdotes from his thirty-one years as director and praises library staff for their hard work and commitment to MSU. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the first of a two part interview, Dr. Walter Adams, former interim president of Michigan State University and professor of economics, talks about his life and career teaching economics at MSU, and his involvement with the MSU School of Labor and Industrial Relations. Adams describes what interested him about economics and how the Great Depression, as well as the rise of fascism and totalitarianism, influenced his thinking. He talks about accepting a position at Michigan State College in 1947, his impressions of his fellow faculty, living in faculty housing, books he has written, the arrival on campus of Professor Charles "Lash" Larrowe in the mid 1950s, the power and influence of business at the university through the years, his run-ins with MSU President John Hannah, efforts to unionize the faculty at the university, and controversies around publishing faculty salaries, and ROTC on campus. Adams is interviewed by MSU Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-07-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dorothy McMeekin, retired professor of Natural Science at Michigan State University, recalls her involvement in faculty unionizing efforts at MSU in the 1970s and 1980s. McMeekin talks about working with a group affiliated with the Michigan Education Association, collecting union membership cards, faculty who supported or resisted union representation, teaching in old Kedzie Hall, gender pay disparity on campus, and running afoul of MSU President Cecil Mackey. She is interviewed by retired MSU Professor of Labor Studies John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor of Biophysics Dr. Barnett "Barney" Rosenberg talks about treating cancer with platinum on the WKAR radio program, "The Graduate School Presents", with host John Nielson.
- Date Issued:
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Energy Secretary nominee and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in this excerpt from his confirmation hearing. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) chairs the hearing and makes opening statements. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduce Perry. Following his introductory remarks, Perry answers questions about comments he made during his presidential bid about ending the EPA and denying global warming. Perry also talks about nuclear waste disposal. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) asks Perry about funding for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (F-RIB) at Michigan State University.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-01-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon testifies before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection regarding the sexual abuse of dozens of gymnasts who were under the care of former MSU physician and convicted child molester Larry Nassar. Simon says that she is horrified that Nassar's crimes occurred during her tenure and that she did not know of his actions. She also comments on settlement negotiations with the survivors, university investigations into allegations against other MSU employees, and how abuse complaints were handled under her administration. Also testifying are USA Gymnastics President Steve Penny and Rhonda Faehn, USA Women's Gymnastics program director. The Committee is chaired by Jerry Moran (R-KS) until John Thune (R-SD) returns to assume the chair.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- University of Michigan Professor of Classical Studies Dr. Arthur Verhoogt joins MSU Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies Dr. Robert Anderson, to discuss U of M's digital Papyri collection and MSU's digital collection of Samaritan manuscripts. Verhooght describes the creation of the digital papyrus collection, use of the collection, and its historical and theological significance. Anderson describes the acquisition, storage and preservation of the Samaritan materials kept, contents of the collection, and its historical significance. Dr. Jim Ridolfo, Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky talks about digitizing the Samaritan collection while he was at MSU. They answer questions from the audience. Dr. Christopher A. Frilingos introduces the speakers. Librarian Agnes Widder convenes the session. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University junior Jewell Muller describes her motivation for going to college, but confesses that she is still uncertain about what she wants to do with her life. Muller talks about her adjustment to college life, being the "typical" freshman," dealing with peers who have difficulty managing themselves, and being exposed to racial conflict. Muller says she that she ultimately wants a career, husband, and family and that family will be the most important part of her life.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor Emeritus E. James Potchen, M.D. amd former chair of the MSU Radiology Department, talks about representing the university administration in the faculty grievance process. Potchen says that ninety-nine percent of the problems presented to the Grievance Office were the result of misunderstandings and that he didn't have to prepare very much for individual cases because there was so much redundancy in the type of grievances filed. Potchen also talks about why MSU created the faculty grievance process, attempts to unionize MSU faculty, the attitude of MSU President Peter McPherson toward MSU faculty having a voice, the move of the medical school to Grand Rapids, the changes MSU President Cecil Mackey made at MSU, his own role in the development of medical programs at MSU and his career as a professor and administrator at the university. Potchen is interviewed by retired MSU Professor of Labor Studies and former Faculty Grievance Officer John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-01-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michael Rubner, Michigan State University's longest serving Faculty Grievance Official (FGO), talks about how he organized the duties of the FGO, the time it took to process grievances, the evaluation process of FGOs, his involvement with the University Committee on Faculty Affairs (UCFA) and why he chose to become an FGO. He also talks about other FGOs, MSU provosts and presidents, the role of the MSU general counsel, and the effectiveness of the Faculty Grievance Process. Rubner is interviewed by Bob Banks, former MSU Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources and John Revitte, former MSU professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-04-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wickert talks about his childhood in Chicago, obtaining a Psychology degree from UCLA in 1933 and a graduate degree form the University of Chicago. He shares work experiences and comments on the Hawthorne experiments at Western Electric. Wickert served as a replacement-training officer during World War II and joined the Psychology Department at MSU in 1947. He joined the Management School in 1960 developing organizational psychology programs around the world in cooperation with the State Department, Peace Corp and MSU international outreach efforts.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-05-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert Repas, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR), discusses his career at MSU and the history of the SLIR. Repas talks about the school's directors, faculty, MSU President John Hannah's attempt to win favor with organized labor, the founding of the SLIR program in the mid 1950s, and SLIR being investigated by the Michigan State Legislature for being too union friendly and encouraging labor strife. He also shares stories about fellow faculty in SLIR and other MSU personalities, working with the MSU Board of Trustees, and a conflict he had with the UAW concerning his academic freedom. Interviewed by John Revitte. professor of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-08-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ed Welch, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR) talks about his law career and his first contact with MSU in 1970 when the Muskegon law firm he worked for conducted labor and employment law seminars as part of SLIR's Labor Education Program (LEP). Welch says that he practiced labor law for many years, agreed to join SLIR on a part-time basis and specialize in workers compensation issues and finally came on board as a full time faculty member in 1999. He talks about the curriculum he taught, the Workers Comp Center and the Safety Center at MSU, being required to do enough outreach to cover his salary and expenses, his work and travel demands, the newsletter he published, the interpersonal and professional dynamics in SLIR, becoming director of the Human Resources Education and Training Center (HRETC) within SLIR, the tensions between the academic program faculty and the extension service faculty, and the effectiveness and legacy of SLIR and what he liked about his association with it. Welch is interviewed by John Revitte, professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-01-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection