[Oral History Program interview with [Joel Skornica, 1998, 2003] ]

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[Skornica, Joel], interviewee

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[In his April 1998 interviews with Barry Teicher, Joel Skornica talks about his time as Vice Chancellor, as well as his time as dean of students office, and the general feel of campus during his ti...

[In his April 1998 interviews with Barry Teicher, Joel Skornica talks about his time as Vice Chancellor, as well as his time as dean of students office, and the general feel of campus during his time as an employee in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.]

[In his 2003 interview with Arthur Hove, Joel Skornica talks about the expansion of the city of Madison. He talks about Irving Shain, and his involvement with WARF. He talks about his time as Mayor of the city of Madison, and how he one his greatest accomplishments was reuniting Madison after the Vietnam War.

[1998 interview: Background; Undergraduate education; Employment at Memorial Union; Campus activism; Employment in dean of students office; Madison Academic Computing Center (MACC); Employment in chancellor's office; UW building projects; City-University Coordinating Committee; Parking on campus; Former governors; Research Park; Minority student recruitment; Terms as mayor of Madison; City Council meetings; Employment as vice president of administration at UW Foundation; Employment at University of California-Davis; Youth violence conferences.]

[2003 interview: Chancellor's Office under Edwin Young; Wisconsin State Journal articles on research; role of student protest in facilitating city-university relations; visit to University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Campus Planning Committee; involvement of Irving Shain and WARF; City Council; CUNA; Wisconsin for Research; relations with UW-Milwaukee; physical expansion of the city of Madison.

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