Creator: Phillip Korth, Jeff Charnley

Subjects: Anniversaries, Sesquicentennial

Description:

Phillip Korth received a BS of philosophy from the University of Minnesota in 1967 and his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1967. He came to MSU in 1967 and taught ATL (American Thought and Language), helped create the University College Symposium Committee in 1968 which brought in well-known figures to discuss particular topics, and in 1969 was elected to Department Advisory Council. He also began discussing the unionization MSU faculty. In 1970 he moved to James Madison College and during 1973 and 1974 he received grants from Rockefeller to research the Auto Light Strike in Toledo and the Minneapolis Teamsters strike, both oral history-based projects. Dr. Korth served as president of the Faculty Association from 1975 to 1976 and was instrumental in one of the early movements to unionize MSU faculty, which was not successful. He produced an oral history for retired union carpenters which focused on the union and how it impacted the way people did their jobs and lived, as well as the impact of changing technologies in their work. Phillip worked with various professors at MSU to create the graduate seminar program in ATL in 1987 and served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters for a time.

Date: November 29, 2000

Format: Audio/mp3

Original Format: Audiocassettes

Resource Identifier: Philip_Korth_Intv_t2s2.mp3

Collection Number: UA 3

Language: English

Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by Michigan State University and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Contributing Institution: University Archives & Historical Collections, MATRIX, Office of the Provost

Relation: Sesquicentennial Oral History Project

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections

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