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Interview #195: Scott, Charles T.

UW-Madison TEI edition, February, 2010

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Scott, Charles T. (1932- )
[Oral History Program interview with Charles T. Scott, 1980]
number 195
(Teaching assistants strike of 1970)
University of Wisconsin, 1980

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[Title Page]

[abstract]

First Interview Session (December 22, 1980): Tapes 1-2

00:00:07–00:09:55 Background. Masters degree at New York...

00:09:55–00:11:58 Ph.D. in linguistics and English as a...

00:11:58–00:14:07 Invited to become instructor at UW in...

00:14:07–00:14:38 Came to UW to teach summer session, June...

00:14:38–00:18:42 History of ESL at UW....

00:18:42–00:20:58 Mary Lu Joynes hired by English department...

00:20:58–00:24:18 Foreign students required to take ESL...

00:24:18–00:27:12 Attitude of rest of department toward...

00:27:12–00:29:54 Did not think much of tenure at the time...

00:29:54–00:32:07 CS’s publications. Does not recall...

00:32:07–00:35:13 Growing involvement in department affairs...

00:35:13–00:39:14 CS continues to discuss eleven new faculty...

00:39:14–00:40:19 Taught a course on the history of the...

00:40:19–00:43:36 English department’s use of instructors...

00:43:36–00:47:46 Discusses Murray Fowler, chairman of...

00:47:46–00:48:54 Why Fowler did not want department involved...

00:48:54–00:52:56 Fowler grudgingly allowed students to...

00:52:56–00:54:05 Fowler did not take advantage of outside...

00:54:05–00:57:25 Briefly discusses Cyrena Pondrom, who...

00:57:25–00:59:25 Earned tenure in 1965, possibly fastest...

00:59:25–01:03:27 Began receiving offers from other...

01:03:27–01:07:17 Received more offers while in Japan and...

01:07:17–01:10:13 CS’s publications. In 1968 he was made...

00:00:00–00:04:45 Department beginning to change in 1965...

00:04:45–00:05:47 Meetings of executive committee were an...

00:05:47–00:10:33 Rule of thumb in the executive committee...

00:10:33–00:12:19 Subject divisions in department: English...

00:12:19–00:13:10 Brief discussion of Harry Hayden Clark.

00:13:10–00:14:52 Walter Rideout’s chairmanship (1965-68)...

00:14:52–00:17:12 Ford Foundation fellowship program...

00:17:12–00:20:11 Always far more graduate students than...

00:20:11–00:22:24 Faculty committee appointed TAs....

00:22:24–00:25:18 During Rideout’s chairmanship, reorganization...

00:25:18–00:28:08 Year-long committee studied Ph.D....

00:28:08–00:29:37 More on reorganization of department into...

00:29:37–00:31:06 Comparison of assistant professors in...

00:31:06–00:34:55 More on expectations of new assistant...

00:34:55–00:38:08 Incentives offered to attract new faculty...

00:38:08–00:41:01 Number of graduate TAs increased....

00:41:01–00:44:10 In 1968, Rideout completed three-year...

00:44:10–00:49:58 Stormy issue in department over promotion...

00:49:58–00:58:05 Vote between Eccles and Kroeber extremely...

00:58:05–01:00:49 Many student protests during Heninger’s...

01:00:49–01:03:13 CS offended by graduate students’ petition...

01:03:13–01:05:57 One assistant professor proposed, with...

01:05:57–01:07:27 Faculty did not know what TAs were teaching...

01:07:27–01:09:07 One of the most flagrant subversions of...

Second Interview Session (December 31, 1980): Tapes 3-4

00:00:15–00:05:55 CS continues to discuss Siff’s course on...

00:05:55–00:06:54 CS became chair in fall, 1970.

00:06:54–00:14:38 Siff had already been notified he would...

00:14:38–00:17:21 Formal procedure for evaluating teaching...

00:17:21–00:20:47 CS continues to discuss Siff.

00:20:47–00:22:52 Another incident of a subverted course...

00:22:52–00:24:13 Battaglia removed from this course...

00:24:13–00:29:03 Faculty no longer knew what was being...

00:29:03–00:33:00 Tremendous shift in this period in the...

00:33:00–00:35:36 CS continues to discuss decline in trust...

00:35:36–00:40:32 In the mid 1960s, requirement changed...

00:40:32–00:43:42 Official reason for dropping English 102...

00:43:42–00:47:28 Department very split during these years...

00:47:28–00:48:33 Department just beginning to become aware...

00:48:33–00:53:14 System for choosing graduate students...

00:53:14–00:54:32 No question that faculty liked having...

00:54:32–00:56:26 Interviewer refers to interview with...

00:56:26–01:05:48 CS elected as chair in spring, 1970...

01:05:48–01:06:30 CS reluctantly agreed to run for position...

00:00:04–00:05:43 CS continues to discuss election as...

00:05:43–00:11:49 At this time departmental meetings were...

00:11:49–00:12:41 CS’s wife reacted positively to chairmanship.

00:12:41–00:17:41 Not involved in campus-level bargaining...

00:17:41–00:21:48 Meetings were tense, nasty and absurd...

00:21:48–00:23:07 Anger at TAA members who were English...

00:23:07–00:27:38 Heninger shocked by meetings....

00:27:38–00:28:58 According to TAA contract, CS had to meet...

00:28:58–00:31:42 Question on CS’s awareness of Mulvihill...

00:31:42–00:33:33 Does not recall reaction to creation of...

00:33:33–00:38:20 CS had 13 or 14 TAs in the spring of 1970...

00:38:20–00:40:45 English TAs said they were satisfied with...

00:40:45–00:41:49 CS opposed the TAA.

00:41:49–00:43:32 English department agreement with TAA in...

00:43:32–00:47:40 CS did not consult with other departments...

00:47:40–00:50:21 Thinks English department far more formal...

00:50:21–00:52:00 More on English department agreement with...

00:52:00–00:56:29 Major issue was the development of a...

00:56:29–00:58:00 Even though so many student comments are...

00:58:00–01:05:10 Necessary at the time to provide students...

01:05:10–01:07:21 Some good consequences of TAA collective...

Third Interview Session (January 2, 1981): Tapes 5-7

00:00:10–00:05:11 CS continues to discusses consequences...

00:05:11–00:09:47 More on dropping of English 102....

00:09:47–00:15:16 Does not remember if English 102 immediately...

00:15:16–00:19:25 Faculty debate over what English 200...

00:19:25–00:25:50 During third year of CS’s chairmanship...

00:25:50–00:31:08 CS a prime mover in introduction of...

00:31:08–00:32:59 Faculty who taught English 207-208.

00:32:59–00:34:56 More on faculty who taught English 207...

00:34:56–00:37:25 Starting in 1971-72, CS becoming more...

00:37:25–00:41:53 Much attention paid to undergraduate...

00:41:53–00:44:18 Discussion of national ratings of...

00:44:18–00:47:39 No one in English department wants a...

00:47:39–00:49:35 Acknowledges pressure from other departments...

00:49:35–00:52:22 Begins to discuss review process for non...

00:52:22–00:56:45 A year earlier, TAA had filed suit against...

00:56:45–00:58:38 Frank Battaglia, Irving Saposnik, John...

00:58:38–00:59:41 CS explains order in which decisions are...

00:59:41–01:03:41 Executive area committees make recommendations...

01:03:41–01:05:46 Nine-member advisory committee hears...

00:00:04–00:01:10 CS continues to discuss committee roles.

00:01:10–00:04:16 Several days before the first open meeting...

00:04:16–00:07:42 Matt Palmer of The Capital Times...

00:07:42–00:12:26 Shortly before the meeting, CS was...

00:12:26–00:14:30 Meeting moved to larger room....

00:14:30–00:16:22 CS describes his feelings at this time...

00:16:22–00:18:26 CS called meeting to order, explained...

00:18:26–00:20:45 Photograph taken of Battaglia at meeting...

00:20:45–00:22:11 Battaglia very promising when he arrived...

00:22:11–00:23:50 CS continues description of meeting...

00:23:50–00:26:57 Meeting began with reading of executive...

00:26:57–00:28:11 Saposnik case might have been debated...

00:28:11–00:30:06 Battaglia then debated....

00:30:06–00:32:00 After announcement made, Jackie di Salvo...

00:32:00–00:33:13 CS had initiated practice that chairman...

00:33:13–00:34:46 CS adjourned meeting....

00:34:46–00:40:54 CS thought about “unsolicited” statements...

00:40:54–00:46:17 An undergraduate student came to CS’s...

00:46:17–00:48:14 For a year afterwards, students came to...

00:48:14–00:50:03 Next open meeting on Elaine Reuben and...

00:50:03–00:55:24 Third open meeting dealt with John Sullivan...

00:55:24–00:56:58 In 1972-73, there was one more open...

00:56:58–00:59:59 CS oversaw four open meetings during his...

00:59:59–01:01:05 CS comments on the large number of...

01:01:05–01:05:41 CS did not participate actively in the...

01:05:41–01:06:20 Enormous amount of freedom on campus...

00:00:04–00:02:28 More on the antiwar movement and academic...

00:02:28–00:04:34 There were rumors that large numbers of...

00:04:34–00:06:08 One assistant professor who arrived in...

00:06:08–00:07:18 Area committee had the responsibility of...

00:07:18–00:08:27 CS begins to discuss the move to Helen...

00:08:27–00:10:50 Move occurred in the summer of 1971...

00:10:50–00:13:01 Allocation of space to English department...

00:13:01–00:16:35 CS was involved in the distribution of...

00:16:35–00:20:28 Graduate student lounge on sixth floor...

00:20:28–00:22:08 More on the distribution of offices...

00:22:08–00:23:45 CS talks about the problems caused by...

00:23:45–00:24:31 Strike pointed out the fragility of these...

00:24:31–00:30:23 Since CS has resumed control of the ESL...

00:30:23–00:33:13 Early in the 1970s, students began asking...

00:33:13–00:34:44 CS continues to discuss Wallace, who was...

00:34:44–00:37:18 In the last year of CS’s chairmanship...

00:37:18–00:38:45 There are now major curricular changes...

00:38:45–00:46:05 CS describes the status of English 207-208....

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