Oral history interview with Karl Scheibe, 2017 February 6 and 13
In this interview, Karl Scheibe discusses topics including: growing up in Illinois; studies at Trinity College; studies at University of California Berkeley as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow; his father and brothers' work as missionaries in Brazil; working at Wesleyan beginning in 1963; completeing his PhD under Theodore Sarbin and writing a book about him; Wesleyan's cash influx after acquiring My Weekly Reader; the atmosphere of Wesleyan in the early 1960s; work as co-principle investigator for project with Connecticut Service Corps; the now defunct College of Quantitative Studies; work with Daniel Patrick Moynihan; move to Brazil following his eldest brother's death; teaching social psychology at University of Brasilia; receiving tenure at Wesleyan; the recruitment of minority and female students; wife Wendy's work as Assistant and Associate Dean of Admissions; Fulbright teaching fellowship in São Paulo, Brazil at the Catholic University; work on academic Advisory Committee; work as acting Clinical Director at the Stonington Institute; founding of the Saybrook Counseling Center; work advising Lin-Manuel Miranda during his time as a Wesleyan student; published works; teaching the course A Dramaturgical Approach to Psychology; criticism of Bill Chace; Doug Bennett; Bill Wasch and the Wasch Center