Interviews 681-690

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#681. MERICLE, Ken (1945- )
Graduate student; Professor; Director, School for Workers
At UW: 1969-1973; 1979-
First Interview

Graduate school; Work at MIT; Hiring by UW; Family background; Academic interests; Teaching; Manufacturing sector; New industrial relations; Joint labor-management programs; Budget issues; Prospects for labor education; Milwaukee office; AFL-CIO; Faculty governance; Industrial Relations Research Institute; Students.

Second Interview

Interviewed: 2004	Length: 3 hours
Interviewer: Maurice Better

Educational background; Career; Intellectual climate; Teaching at MIT; Closing of the Industrial Relations Research Institute.

Career background; Hiring by UW; Skills-based automation; Teaching; Privatization; Workers Independent News Service; Appropriateness of labor-management programs; Budgetary dilemmas; Working population and the university; Faculty governance.

Educational background; Hiring by IRRI; Job responsibilities; Colleagues; Tenure-granting authority; Student interest in industrial relations; Funding dilemmas; Faculty recruitment; Barbash Fund; Closing of the IRRI.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2009 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF CHARLOTTE FRASCONA.

Career at UW; Department chair; IRRI recruitment efforts; Budgets; Proposals to save the IRRI.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2007 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF CHARLES N. HALABY.

Educational background; Dissertation; Closing of the Industrial Relations Research Institute; Tenure-granting authority; Attempts to find a new director.

#686. SCHWAB, Donald (1938- )
Emeritus Professor of Management and Human Resources
At UW: 1967-

Interviewed: 2004	Length: 1 hour
Interviewer: W. Lee Hansen

Educational background; Campus unrest; Teaching; Relationship between IRRI and Business School; Decline and fall of the IRRI; Directors of the IRRI; Research funds; Tenure-granting authority.

Early years; Educational background; Dissertation; Industrial Relations Research Institute; Tenure-granting authority; Relationship between IRRI and economics department.

Early years and education; Undergraduate career at Emory; Civil rights and segregation; Graduate studies; Joseph Hirschfelder; Elizabeth Hirschfelder; Naval Research Lab; Theoretical Chemistry Institute; Post-doctoral research; Tenure; Colleagues; Melinda Certain; Faculty governance; Chemistry department; Department chair; Associate Vice Chancellor; Sterling Hall bombing; Teaching; Research; Computer technology; Fellowships; Minority unrest; Madison Plan; Associate deanship; Strategic planning; Dean of L&S; L&S budget and administration; 1993-94 Strategic Report; Board of Visitors; International Institute; Center for Humanities; Language Institute; Industrial Relations Research Institute; Accreditation; Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences; Changing nature of the office of dean.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2010 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF PHILLIP R. CERTAIN.

#689. JAVID, Manucher (1922 - )
Emeritus Professor, Neurological Surgery
At UW: 1953-

Early years and family in Iran; Baha'i Faith; Journey to United States; Medical education; Research; Residency; Application of urea solution to neurosurgery; Promotion to full professor; Creation of department of neurosurgery; Recruitment of a department chair.

Growing up in Oklahoma; Education at the University of Oklahoma; Rhodes Scholarship; Oxford University; Graduate study at the University of Chicago; Research on children's political views; Hiring by the University of Wisconsin; Colleagues in the political science department; Research; Technological advances in research; Teaching; Data and Library Program Service; Administrative career; Committee service; Chairmanship of the political science department; TAA strike; Associate deanship of the College of Letters & Science.

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