Interviews 331 - 340

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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Concern over decline of UW-Madison due to low faculty salaries; Organization of University Committee subcommittees to study budget, educational quality and UW-Madison contributions to economy; Difficulty of assessing educational quality; Convincing President Robert O'Neil of seriousness of situation; Role of PROFS and news service; Efforts to gain support around state; Problems faced by governor's task force; Uproar over salary differential; Key personalities in successful catch-up legislation; Current dilemmas for UW.

Undergraduate life in 1940s; Financing education; Recollections of instructors; Assessment of UW System presidents during his tenure as regent; Regents and politics; Treatment of Madison campus under Merger; Salary catch-up issue.

Background to writing The University of Wisconsin: A History, 1848-1925; Starting University Archives; Cooperation with departments; Problems with sources; Highlights of UW history; Relationship with Legislature; Important presidents and faculty; Charles Van Hise presidency; Curriculum and research; Women and UW; Origins of Wisconsin Idea, tradition of faculty governance and academic freedom; Richard Ely trial and sifting and winnowing statement; Libel suit against book.

334.   FRAUTSCHI, Walter  (1901-1997 )
Undergraduate Student; Member of Board of Trustees of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Vilas Trust
At UW: 1920-1924

Interviewed: 1987	Length: 4 hours
Interviewer: Laura Smail

Childhood in Madison; Undergraduate years at UW; Career; Appointment as WARF trustee; Issues; Appointment as Vilas trustee; Conditions of trust.

Writing history of WARF; Network among those living in University houses in 1940s.

Background; Appointment as director of WARF; Previous directors; Operation of WARF Board; Investment committee; Board members; Grant process; Appointment of Board members; Relationship with University and faculty; UW Foundation; Issue of publicity; WARF Institute; Investment in Wisconsin Dells; Procedural changes in management of WARF; Expectations for future.

Background; Early years at WARF; Licensing directorship; Conflict with federal government over patent ownership and eventual solution; Examples of successful and unsuccessful patents; Faculty attitudes to patenting inventions through WARF; Decision to increase remuneration to inventors; Issues in software inventions; WARF and industrial park; WARF's arrangements with System campuses; Acquainting Board members with new research; Establishment of Licensing Executives Society and Society of University Patent Administrators.

338.   COHEN, Bernard C.  (1926- )
Professor of Political Science; Vice Chancellor; Acting Chancellor
At UW: 1959-1990

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Irving Shain's personality and administrative style; Athletic issue; Shain's reputation in UW System; His relationship with Robert O'Neil; O'Neil as president; Regents' view of Madison and demands on System; Pressure to centralize; Issues addressed as chancellor; Dean of students search; Fund raising; Research Park; System administration and Madison campus; Extension Merger; UW Foundation; Dean of students office and issue of student discipline; Madison Plan and faculty governance; Recent decisions effecting Extension.

Childhood; Undergraduate and graduate education at Yale University; Decision to study international relations; Gabriel Almond; Yale Institute of International Studies; Princeton Center for International Studies; Appointment to Wisconsin; Teaching; Research environment at Wisconsin; Graduate program; Research in public participation in foreign policy formation; Agenda-setting; Nature of the discipline of political science; Recent trends in the discipline; Relationship between academic political science and policy-making; American Political Science Association; Administrative positions as associate dean of the Graduate School, as vice chancellor for academic affairs, and as acting chancellor.

339.   CENTER, Charles C.  (1910-2001 )
Graduate Student; Professor of Business
At UW: 1938-1941; 1946-1973

Background; Business School under deans Fayette Elwell and Erwin Gaumnitz; Women faculty members; Relationship with Economics Department; Changes in approach to teaching insurance; Life in tent colony as graduate student; Dow demonstration in Commerce Building; History of UW Faculty Association.

Background; Undergraduate years at UW; Public school teaching; County agent work in Outagamie County; Fellowship at Cornell; Graduate work at UW; Training extension specialists; Appointment as assistant director of Cooperative Extension; Cooperative Extension issues in late 1950s; Extension Merger, 1985; Planning structure of merged Extension; Problems of merged Extension; UW System Merger of 1971 and its consequences for Extension; Funding problems since 1965; Extension chancellors; Relationship between Extension and College of Agriculture; Extension and UW System; Involvement in extension work at national level; Retirement.

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