Oral history interview with Robert Rosenbaum [session 2], 2012 April 24
Oral history interview with Robert Rosenbaum, University Professor of Science and Mathematics, Emeritus. He also served as academic vice president, acting president, and chancellor at Wesleyan. In this second interview of two, Robert Rosenbaum and his wife, Marjorie Daltry Rosenbaum, discuss topics including: presidencies of Vic Butterfield, Ted Etherington, and Colin Campbell; the "golden years" of higher education from the end of WWII through the 1970s; diversification and coeducation of Wesleyan's student body; advanced learning at Wesleyan; effects of the Civil Rights movement; living in Middletown; summering on their farm in northern MA; teaching summer graduate courses to teachers; faculty and student interaction; interactions with fraternities on campus; acting as a member of the Science Development Committee; administrative work in positions of acting president, vice president, provost and chancellor; the effects of the Vietnam War; founding of Project to Increase Mastery of Math and Science (PIMMS); work on PIMMS funding and programs with General Electric; relationship with Middletown; transformation of Middletown and the Wesleyan campus over the years; working with Middletown schools and community to improve programs and services; enrichment summer programs for high school students held at Wesleyan