Interviews 171 - 180

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Background and education; Research as UW graduate student; Plant Pathology Department in 1940s; New building for Plant Pathology; Committees; CCHE and agriculture education in state; College of Agriculture under Dean Rudolph Froker; Pound's appointment as dean; Relations with farm organizations in state; His staff; Home Economics Department; Other concerns during deanship; College of Agriculture and L&S; Chancellor's office; Appointment as acting chancellor; Search for new chancellor.

Background; Career of father Charles Anderson in UW School of Education; Education and early teaching; Committees; "Publish or perish"; Specialization pressures; Doctoral program in physical education; Research; Compulsory vs. voluntary physical education; Facilities; Intramural program; Influence of athletics on curriculum; Women's physical education; Merger of men's and women's departments; Fate of boxing; Wisconsin's influence on American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; Comparison of students in 1940s vs. 1960s and 1970s; Faculty-student relationships.

Reasons for coming to Wisconsin; Origins and early history of School of Education; Depression; Comparison of early and recent faculty; Eight-Year Study at Wisconsin High School; Merger of departments of Education and Educational Methods; Local control of schools; Teacher unionization; Chairmanship; Ph.D. training; Relationship between School of Education and L&S; Wisconsin Improvement Program, 1950; State Curriculum Program, 1940s; School of Education vs. DPI; Impact of Research and Development Center on research; School of Education deans; Student-faculty relationships; Influence of GI Bill students; Racial discrimination; Discrimination against women faculty; Faculty selection criteria and procedures; Evaluation for merit and promotion; State Education Post-war Planning Committee; National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education, 1959; Controversy and 1969 report; Efforts to bring together labor and management in state; Nathan Feinsinger; Economics Department.

Early life and farm influence; Reasons for coming to UW; Department reorganization; Generalist vs. specialist; Chairmanship; Formation of Department of Counseling and Behavioral Studies; Department personalities; Department of Counseling and Guidance; Accreditation; Graduate student programs; Changes in UW administrative structure; Teacher training program; Research in counseling and guidance; Impact of federal funding; Admissions requirements; Student- faculty relations; Ties to Wisconsin public schools; DPI; Predictions for next ten years.

Reasons for coming to Wisconsin High School; Budget; Early faculty; Comparison to public schools; Impact of WWII; Textbook writing vs. methodology research; Hiring policies; Staff structure; Graduate student support; Eight-Year Study; Student admissions policy; Parent input; Teacher advising system; Student teaching; Teaching load; After school activities; Teacher evaluation; Closing of Wisconsin High School; Unusual features of Wisconsin High School; International Teacher Development program; Wisconsin High School's influence on teacher training.

Early education; Reasons for coming to UW; Special education in late 1950s; Program building; Extension education; Teacher training; Five-year program in special education; Reorganization of School of Education; Counseling and Behavioral Studies Department; Behavioral Disabilities Department; Background of Waisman Center; Milwaukee study; Relationship of Behavioral Disabilities Department and DPI; Federal control of research; Research-teaching tradeoffs; Ties of Behavioral Disabilities Department with Madison public schools and state communities; Faculty personalities; His role in School of Education.

177.   HEIDEMAN, Robert G.  (1923- )
Director of Educational Placement and Career Services
At UW: 1949-1987

Educational background; Northern Nigeria Teacher Education Project (NNTEP); Role of AID and Ford Foundation; Impact of Biafran War on NNTEP; Evaluation of NNTEP; Faculty personalities; Choosing Nigerian participant trainees.

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Family; Great Depression; Early education; Army service; Graduate education at UW; UW zoology department; Counseling degree in School of Education; Employment in the admission’s office; Employment in the Educational Placement Bureau; Trend research; University Club; Educational Placement Bureau; John Guy Fowlkes; Lindley Stiles; John Palmer; School of Education faculty; UW Nigeria Program; Office of Testing and Evaluation; Publications; Research; UW Nigeria Program; Service; Honors and awards; Charitable donations; Carroll Heideman; Retirement; Current world problems; Factors for educational success; Changes colleges need to make.

178.   HOSLER, Russell J.  (1906-1999)
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Continuing and Vocational Education, and Business
At UW: 1946-1976

Background; Graduate program in business education; Secretarial education program; School of Business; Cooperation with state colleges; Shorthand training; Student research; Family Finance Program; Undergraduate business teacher education program; Graduate School Administrative Committee; Faculty Senate; Chairmanship of Department of Education; Research and soft money; Phasing-out of Wisconsin High School; Student teaching; Block teaching concept; Internship program; Certification for liberal arts students; School of Education reorganization; Ph.D. requirements; L&S and School of Education; Extension education; Specialist degree in education; Joan Roberts case; Vocational Education Act of 1963; Changes in student body and new faculty; Sex discrimination; Teacher preparation.

Origins of Department of Educational Psychology; Emphasis on Ph.D.; Use of TAs; Research and Development Center; Individually-guided education; Relations with DPI; Wisconsin Improvement Program; Team teaching; More on research and development; Effect of federal research funding; Lobbying in Washington, D.C. by colleagues.

Reasons for coming to UW; Teaching; Recruiting students; Research; Dance division; Directors of women's physical education; Sex discrimination; Dance program; Peer evaluation; Teaching loads; Undergraduate teaching; Impact of guerrilla theater; Orchesis; M.F.A. vs. Ph.D.; Work in community and public schools; Dance program personalities; Evaluation of program.

Beginning of dance career; Study with Mary Wigman in Germany; Hanya Holm School in New York; Arrival at UW; Teaching; Dance therapy program; Composition and emotions classes; Opinions on changes in dance.

Early dance experiences; Study at Mary Wigman School in Germany; Teaching at Hanya Holm School in New York; Discussion of the philosophy of dance and motion.

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