Browsing by Subject "Minnesota Legislature"

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    Interview with Arthur Naftalin
    (University of Minnesota, 1994-12-13) Naftalin, Arthur; Chambers, Clarke A.
    Clarke A. Chambers interviews Arthur Naftalin, former student and faculty member at the University. Naftalin was also the mayor of the city of Minneapolis.
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    Interview with Carl R. Jessen
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-08-12) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Jessen, Carl R.
    Carl Jessen begins his interview by discussing his upbringing, his interest in veterinary medicine, and his education. He follows this with his entrance into private practice and then his return to school for a Ph.D. in qualitative genetics and radiology. He then reflects on changes in the department over the period when he first entered the DVM program, to his reentrance for a Ph.D. and subsequent hiring as a faculty member, and then makes a modern comparison. Within his reflection on the school, Jessen discusses budgetary problems in the teaching hospital, the push for the faculty to get a constitution and faculty council, the relationship between the School and the legislature in terms of funding, and the growth of the profession. Within his own career, Jessen shares his philosophy on the balance of research, teaching, and clinical work. In terms of the land grant mission of the University, he also considers relationships between the Vet School and out-of-state students and between the School and the community. Reviewing the history of the school under Dean Sidney Ewing, Jessen relates the effects of changes in the structure of the school and the school’s loss of accreditation in the mid 1970s. Pursuant with these changes in the mid 1970s, he also relates changes in the profession and the school that led to an increase in the number of female students. He then speaks to relations with the University of Wisconsin, his duties as associate dean and director of the hospital, Robert Dunlop’s tenure as dean, budget problems and the hospital business model, the School’s emphasis on teaching over research, the integration of the Vet School into the AHC, the deanships of Jeff Kausner and David Thawley, and the connection between the Vet School and the legislature through animal industries. He ends the interview by again emphasizing the teaching mission of the School.
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    Interview with Charles Backstrom
    (University of Minnesota, 1995-04-26) Backstrom, Charles Herbert; Chambers, Clarke A.
    Clarke A. Chambers interviews Charles Backstrom, a professor in the Political Science Department. Backstrom speaks about his work in the Political Science Department and in the state legislature.
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    Interview with D. J. Leary
    (University of Minnesota, 1995-10-03) Leary, D. J.; Chambers, Clarke A.
    Clarke A. Chambers interviews D. J. Leary, graduate of the University and former politician and public affairs media consultant.
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    Interview with David Brown
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-05-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Brown, David M.
    David Brown begins by describing his childhood and education in Illinois. He discusses his experience attending medical school in the 1960s and his decision to join the University of Minnesota’s Department of Pediatrics. He describes his experiences with Ellis Benson and others with whom he worked in the Department. He discusses the role of women in laboratory medicine and his work in comparative endocrinology. He explains the differences in the administrations of several different deans of the Medical School and the School’s changing relationship with the University (and later, Fairview) Hospital. He describes some of the issues of town/gown in Minneapolis and in Minnesota at large, especially related to pediatric medicine. He describes his decision to become an administrator and his own tenure as Dean of the Medical School, the development of the Masonic Cancer Center, and the University’s ALG scandal. He concludes with his retirement and his discovery of a passion for art.
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    Interview with David J. Berg
    (University of Minnesota, 1994-11-07) Berg, David J.; Chambers, Clarke A.
    Clarke A. Chambers interviews David J. Berg, a member of Central Administration.
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    Interview with James Boulger
    (University of Minnesota, 2016) Boulger, James; Tobbell, Dominique
    James Boulger begins the interview discussing his educational background. He briefly discusses his first academic job at the new Medical College of Ohio at Toledo in the late 1960s and his decision to move to the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UM-D) Medical School in the early 1970s. Boulger describes the work done to get the school ready for the first class of students; the experiences of the charter class; and the experiences of the faculty—including the challenges they encountered—running the medical school in its first few years. He discusses the different expectations and priorities of the UM-Twin Cities Medical School and its faculty compared to the expectations and priorities of the UM-D Medical School and the state’s rural clinicians and legislators. Boulger discusses the move on the UM-D campus to unionize the faculty; the establishment of the first curriculum and the Department of Family Medicine at UM-D Medical School; various UM-D Medical School deans; the decision by the UM-D Medical School to use community physicians as clinical faculty; and the responsibility of a land-grant university to the people of Minnesota. Next, Boulger discusses Robert Carter’s departure as first dean of UM-D Medical School, the appointment of Arthur Aufderheide as interim dean, John LaBree as dean, and Boulger’s term as interim dean. Boulger describes the strategies that were used to recruit students committed to family medicine and rural practice and the strategies used to recruit Native American students to UM-D Medical School; and reflects on the changes in family medicine in rural and urban practice settings over the past forty years, particularly in terms of what procedures family medicine physicians are performing. Boulger goes on to discuss the relationship between UM-D Medical School and the Duluth area hospitals—Miller-Dwan Hospital, Saint Mary’s Hospital, and Saint Luke’s Hospital—and the establishment of the graduate medical education at these hospitals; the relationship of the medical school to the rest of the UM-D campus; and how the UM-D Medical School faculty balance their teaching, research, and service responsibilities and expectations and whether the balance of those expectations changed once the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses merged. Next Boulger discusses his second two tenures as interim dean. During his second stint, Boulger describes dealing with difficult retrenchments, while during his third stint, he describes trying to marshal support to convert UM-D to a four-year medical school. Boulger next discusses the establishment of the Center for Rural Mental Health Studies, telemental health, and telemedicine; and the Rural Medical Scholars Program.
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    Interview with John Brandl
    (University of Minnesota, 1994-10-06) Brandl, John E.; Chambers, Clarke A.
    Clarke A. Chambers interviews John Brandl of the School of Public Affairs, now the Humphrey Institute. Brandl speaks of his experience as a member of the School of Public Affairs and his service on the state legislature and state senate.
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    Interview with Lyndon Carlson
    (University of Minnesota, 1999-09-16) Carlson, Lyndon; Pflaum, Ann M.
    Ann Pflaum interviews Representative Lyndon Carlson, a long-term representative in the Minnesota Legislature.
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    Interview with Mariah Snyder
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-06-13) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Snyder, Mariah
    Snyder begins by briefly describing her early life, education, and entrance into nursing. She describes her years as a staff nurse in surgery and orthopedics at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN. Within this topic, she discusses new technology in the hospital, doctor/nurse relationships, nurse training, and international nurse exchanges. She then describes her return to graduate school, for her masters at the University of Pennsylvania. She explores her reasons for going out of state, compares nursing programs, and discusses her training. Snyder describes her teaching positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and then her eventual arrival at the University of Minnesota where she taught and pursued a PhD in education. Framed within her time in the Nursing School at Minnesota, she explores: the Nursing School at Powell Hall, the changing culture of nursing, grants, regional coordination of nursing, the relationship between diploma and baccalaureate programs, the building of Unit F, the push for a doctoral program in nursing the differences between the DNP and the DNS, the Ph.D. program’s reception within the school of nursing, full membership appointments, Nursing School leadership, and long range planning in the nursing school. She describes her research and then discusses the relationship of the Nursing School with other segments of the University. She goes on to discuss different nursing organizations, minority recruitment, and the Nursing School’s relationship with the state legislature. Finally, she discusses her role in athletics at the University, and it’s relationship to women and status in nursing.
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    Interview with Robert B. Howard
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-03-05) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Howard, Robert B.
    Howard begins by briefly discussing his childhood, his schooling, and his experience in the Army Medical Corps. He then reflects on teaching and working in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota in the 1940s and 1950s, including the changes that he observed in medical care providing after World War II. He discusses his administrative roles at UMN, including director of the Department of Continuation Medical Education, associate dean of the Medical School, and then dean of the College of Medical Sciences. He discusses the faculty private practice controversy in the 1960s, including the option of a strict full-time system. He describes his role in the reorganization of the Pharmacology Department, the establishment of the Ophthalmology Department, and appointing John Najarian as head of surgery after Owen Wangensteen retired. He discusses the increase in the Medical School class size in the 1960s, the attempted establishment of a medical school in St. Paul, the establishment of a medical school in Duluth, and the establishment of the Academic Health Center. He discusses the Nursing and Pharmacy Schools and some of his department head appointments while he was dean. He describes what he did after leaving the UMN, including working as director of Medical Education at Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and as editor in chief of Postgraduate Medicine Magazine. He reflects on the state of the funding of medical education in Minnesota while he was dean, the influence of the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid, the influence of federal legislation on the Medical School in the 1950s and 1960s, the perceived shortage of healthcare workers in the 1960s, issues of space in the Medical School, the role of external committees and reports in Medical School decisions, the relationships between the Medical School and local physicians, the state legislature, the Regents, and the Mayo Clinic.
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    Interview with Robert K. Anderson
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-05-31) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Anderson, Robert K.
    In the first interview, Robert K. Anderson begins by describing his background, including his childhood, education, his service in the military, his early career, and his reasons for pursuing degrees in veterinary medicine and public health. He discusses his experiences on the faculty of the University of Colorado Medical School, in private practice, as a faculty member of the University of Minnesota, and as an epidemiology teacher for the Pan American Health Organization. He goes on to describe the following: One Health and comparative health; collaboration among the different health science units at the University; his research on brucellosis; his work with rabies for Veterinary Public Health in Denver; the College of Veterinary Medicine’s (CVM) accreditation; the relationship among Veterinary Medicine, UMN central administration, and the Legislature; comparative funding for the CVM and the School of Public Health; and the CVM’s relationship with industry and the USDA. Concerning education within the CVM, Anderson discusses his teaching, the growth of veterinary manpower, women in veterinary medicine, and the recruiting of minority students. He then explores the merging of the CVM with the health sciences and his research on radiation and bovine leukemia. Later in his career, Anderson studied psychology, which led to his interest in human-animal bonds and animal behavior. He considers this work as foundational to creating the Gentle Leader® , reforming his beliefs about dog training, and prompting the establishment of the American College of Veterinary Behaviors, the Delta Society, and the Center to Study Human Animal Relationships and Environments. Among the figures he discusses in his interview, Anderson is particularly attentive to the roles of William T.S. Thorp, Joseph Massey, and Sidney Ewing in his career. In the second interview, Robert K. Anderson and David Garloff focus most of their discussion on the Center to Study Human-Animal Bonds and Environments (CENSHARE), including its establishment, research, interactions with other university centers, and programs doing work on human-animal bonds, funding, educational programs and courses, its products and programs, many of the people and volunteers involved over the years, and other topics. They also discuss Temple Grandin, the Gentle Leader®, NIH funding of veterinary medicine studies, the Delta Society, Helping Paws, Anderson’s work as Chief of Veterinary Public Health Services for Denver, and disease transmission between animals and humans.
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    Interview with Roland Dille
    (University of Minnesota, 1995-07-19) Dille, Roland; Chambers, Clarke A.
    Clarke A. Chambers interviews Roland Dille, former graduate of the University and president of Moorhead State University.
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    Interview with Wendell R. Anderson
    (University of Minnesota, 1999-06-01) Anderson, Wendell Richard; Pflaum, Ann M.
    Ann Pflaum interviews the Honorable Wendell R. Anderson, who graduated from the University's Law School in 1960, was a member of the U.S. Olympic hockey team in 1956, served as both governor of Minnesota and U.S. senator , and also served as a regent of the University.