Interviews 181 - 190

Each Guide entry contains information about an interview, including biographical data about the interviewee (name, vital dates, dates at the UW-Madison, and principal positions held as of the interview date), information about the interview (interviewer, year conducted, length, and series, transcript, and restriction information if applicable), and a list of key topics discussed in the interview. For more detailed information about an interview, or to obtain a copy of an interview contact the Oral History Program.

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Early life and career; Reasons for coming to UW; Budget and research; Longitudinal Study; Study of 4-H Club members; Chairmanship of Graduate Examination Committee; Graduate student selection; Adult Education program; Joint Office for Adult Education; Department of Continuing and Vocational Education; Reorganization of Wisconsin school districts; DPI vs. Small School Association and Town Boards Association; School closings; Faculty power; Research and Development Center; School of Education reorganization; Educational Policy Studies Department; National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education; Comparison of College of Agriculture and School of Education; L&S influence on School of Education; Pressure for promotion; Role of faculty service; Graduate student-faculty relations; His changing role in School of Education; Personalities.

Background; First teaching experiences; Early School of Education faculty; DPI; Extension education; GI students; Ideal of service; Chairmanship of Department of Education; Parker Pen grant; Graduate admissions process; Elementary Education program; ILS; AID; Experiences in India; CCHE; Work in Nigeria; Call to Korea; Resignation from UW; Overall impact of educational aid.

Childhood and education; Milwaukee State Teachers College; Early teaching experiences; Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors; Art Institute; WPA art projects; Wisconsin Artists Federation; Problems of WWII; Art Department; ILS and Elementary Education program; Influence of DPI; Art faculty; Hiring; Evaluation; Salaries and merit pay; Selection of students; Chairmanship; Professional vs. academic training; Anti-Semitism; Curriculum; Teaching load; Experiences in England; Art institutes; Intern program; Ten-year study; M.F.A. program; Ph.D. vs. M.F.A.; Art education research; Integrated arts course; Interdisciplinary cooperation; Deans and chairmen; Wisconsin Improvement Program; Administration's dominance in late 1960s.

Background; Reasons for coming to UW; Comparison of UW and Stanford Education departments; Impact of WWII on Department; GI students; Student teachers; Community work of Education 73; Classes in guidance and personnel; Early program vs. recent program; Curriculum development; DPI; Guidance staff selection; Graduate Examination Committee; World trip, 1957; Problems of training foreign graduate students; Women's faculty group trip to Africa.

Background; Changes in faculty attitudes; Student admissions procedures; Wisconsin High School; Elementary Education program; ILS; Faculty personalities; Student teaching; Program for Indian science teachers; Retraining science teachers; Ford Foundation; DPI relations with Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Wisconsin Improvement Program; Center for Study of Scientific Literacy; Relationship of School of Education and L&S; School of Education reorganization; Creation and nature of Curriculum and Instruction; Student evaluation; UW attitude to international programs; Evaluation of Nigerian and Arab teaching programs.

Background; Teaching in one-room school; Reasons for coming to UW; Education Library; Budget; L&S influence on School of Education; Beginning of Department of Educational Psychology; Courses; Isolation of physical education; Sex discrimination; Faculty inbreeding in School of Education; Academic and social cohesiveness; Art Department; Wisconsin Association of Manufacturers; Microfiche collection; North Central Association school evaluations; Faculty meetings; Young faculty; DPI; Instructional Materials Center; Wisconsin Elementary Teacher Education Program; Old vs. new Department of Education; Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Faculty personalities.

School of Education in 1944; Deans John Guy Fowlkes, Lindley Stiles and Donald McCarty; Elementary Education program; Accreditation; Controversy; Programs in teacher education; Family background; Coming to UW; Course work in health education; Driver education; Civil defense work; Research; Faculty personalities.

Reasons for coming to UW; M.A. teaching program; Wisconsin High School; Teacher certification; Deans and DPI; Research and research funding; Research programs; Teaching Russian, Chinese and Hebrew; Reorganization of School of Education; L&S influence; Research and Development Center; Obtaining funds for School of Education; Building program; Efforts to change DPI; Individual Guided Education; Northern Nigeria Teacher Education Program; Wisconsin Improvement Program; Title VII of Elementary and Secondary Education Act; His Radio Program; Faculty personalities.

Student experience; School of Education in 1930s; John Guy Fowlkes as dean; Wisconsin High School; Salaries; Appointment to faculty; Adult education; Chairmanship of Department of Education; Reorganization of School of Education; Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Teacher certification; Wisconsin Improvement Program; Associate deanship; Faculty selection; Research vs. teaching; L&S and School of Education; Department of Continuing and Vocational Education; Men's and women's physical education; Student participation in Curriculum and Instruction; Closing of Wisconsin High School; Graduate program in Curriculum and Instruction; Faculty personalities; Northern Nigeria Teacher Education Program.

Undergraduate life; Influences; Fraternities; Agriculture in 1930s; Graduate years; Research; Beginning of Extension work; Agronomy Department; Thomas Brittingham; Naming of Hill Farms streets; Rosa Fred; Committee service; Experiences in politics; Teaching; Appointment as chancellor of Extension; Goals; Staff; County staff; National meetings of extension directors; National Agricultural Extension Center for Advanced Study at UW; Funding and purpose of Center; Supervising counties; Work of Extension Committee on Organization and Policy; Program areas; Publications; State Soil and Water Conservation Commission; Wisconsin Farm Progress Days; Agriculture Committee of County Boards; Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission; Rural development program; Gift of Upham Woods to UW; State Historical Society projects; World Dairy Exposition; Goals of land grant university; "The Clearing" in Door County; More on rural development; Involvement in Republican politics; Work for Richard Nixon; Extension Merger; Lorenz Adolfson; Funding new building; Glenn Pound; Current activities.

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