Creator: Keith Groty

Subjects: Anniversaries, Sesquicentennial

Description:

Keith Groty received all three of his degrees from the University of Michigan and came to MSU to teach in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations in 1968. In 1971 he was named interim director of the School and in 1972 he was appointed Assistant Vice President of Personnel and Employee Relations.

During his tenure as Assistant Vice President he created a system to recognize equity adjustments, particularly for female salaries. This kept faculty and MSU unions pretty much on the same level as far as benefits were concerned. He also implemented a system to handle healthcare and wage increases with all the campus unions at the same time in coalition.

Groty helped create the Retirees Service Corps and the Retirees Association and retired in January 1998.

Topics Covered in the Interview include: Walter Adams; APA; Sam Baker; Bob Banks; Larry Boger; Jack Breslin; John Cantlon; Pat Carrigan; classification study; collective bargaining; Terry Denbow; John DiBiaggio; faculty unions; Gordon Guyer; gender equity; John Hannah; Edgar Harden; job security; Charles Killingsworth; Herman King; Philip Korth; Claire and Cecil Mackey; M Peter McPherson; MEA; MERC; CTU; equity adjustments in female faculty salaries; history of collective bargaining/labor relations; job classification system; job security issues; Nisbet Building; outsourcing; Retirees Association; Retirees Service Corps; unionization of graduate teaching assistants; Jim Nash; Oakland University; Tom Patton; H Owen Reed; Barbara Reeves; School of Labor and Industrial Relations; David Scott; Don Stevens; Clifton Wharton; Roger Wilkinson; Lee Winder

Date: September 11, 2003

Collection Number: UA 3

Language: English

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

Relation: Sesquicentennial Oral History Project

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections