{"id":1149,"date":"2015-06-19T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/cas\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:13:25","slug":"price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/case\/2015\/06\/19\/price\/","title":{"rendered":"Q & A with Professor Albert Price, Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor Albert Price, Interim Dean of the UM-Flint College of Arts & Sciences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor\u00a0Albert Price has been a part of the University of Michigan-Flint for the past 35 years. In that time he\u2019s served as Professor and Chair in Political Science, Director of the Masters of Public Administration Program, Pre-Law Advisor, and as Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS).<\/p>\n

His research, teaching, and service have\u00a0extended outward from the university\u00a0and\u00a0include being a part of\u00a0the advisory committee for the current Genesee County jail, hosting a multi-season political talk show on WFUM, and interacting with numerous\u00a0offices\u00a0of government\u00a0throughout\u00a0our city, county, and state.<\/p>\n

Dr. Price will retire this summer. Read on as he reflects on his time here and talks about his hopes for the future of the CAS and UM-Flint.<\/p>\n

How long and in what capacities have you served in CAS?
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m completing my 35th<\/sup> year this year. I\u2019ve gone through the ranks of assistant, associate, and full professor over that time. I\u2019ve also been MPA Director at UM-Flint on and off for something like 24 years of the 35 years that the program has been in existence. And I also have served as the Pre-law advisor at UM-Flint from 1994 until I came to this office in 2013. From 2013 to the present I\u2019ve been the Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Also in that mix, during a period from 1996 to 2002 I was the creator and co-host of a television program on WFUM called Roadkill Politics<\/em>. The show covered local and national politics dealing with alternative viewpoints that were not widely distributed in the mainstream media. The tapes of all those programs are now in the library.
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What role was your favorite and why?
\n<\/strong>My favorite role has been professor, just teaching in the classroom. That\u2019s the thing I enjoy the most. I like encouraging people to think about topics in ways they might not otherwise have considered. I think that’s one of the things I\u2019ve actually done well in my life. That is, to be a kind of an academic translator. Because often times the abstractions which are necessary for some of the systematic thinking about complex intellectual issues are not easily grasped by students who have not been prepared in those, and I think that\u2019s always fun to see people get the idea and say \u201coh, I can challenge this.\u201d It\u2019s not so much to give them anything or saying \u201chere\u2019s the answer,\u201d but to get them to think about how to find the information that will answer the questions. To make them lifelong independent learners \u2013 I\u2019ve really enjoyed that role.<\/p>\n

Did any of the skills you learned from being a professor translate to your administrative positions?
\n<\/strong>It definitely helped\u00a0– the more you learn about the world, the more you learn about the sometimes difficult paths that our students have had to take to get to their situations. If anything it has helped me to become more compassionate about the needs of others and to try to humanize the bureaucratic experience that students sometimes face. I saw myself in that role: as a mediator between the rigidity of the rules of both law school in terms of being able to be admitted but also the university in terms of helping a student to be able to complete their degree, even though it may take them a long time. I\u2019ve had some students, particularly in the undergraduate public administration program, who took many years because they were already employed somewhere and were only taking one course a semester. To follow along and help those people meet their requirements so that they could complete their degree\u2014that was very satisfying. So I think the learning academically helped enrich my ability to respond bureaucratically in the roles where I had authority and responsibility over some things.<\/p>\n

What initially drew you to UM-Flint?
\n<\/strong>It was the job. Being able to be at a regional campus of the University of Michigan. And, for me\u2014and I didn\u2019t even know it at the time\u2014it was a really excellent fit intellectually. The job was to help develop a potential criminal justice track in the MPA program and eventually assume a leadership role in the MPA. So the combination of public law and the application of public law in a way that would be consistent with public administration were here from the beginning. So, for me, it was just perfect because I studied applied public law which is the impact of public law in the actual world and how people get sentenced in courts, or how courts are organized, how prisons operate, how legislatures interact with the criminal justice process by changing law. I don\u2019t think I could have intellectually articulated that when I first took the job \u2013 I was just looking for a job teaching public administration. But this one happened to be doing exactly what my interests were in political science and public administration.<\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve spent your whole career at UM-Flint?
\n<\/strong>Yes. In fact, this is a strange time in my life because for the first time since the fall of 1970, I\u2019m not going to be going to college in the fall. I went and never left! I\u2019ve been in college in my whole adult life.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Price was recently honored by the U.S. House of Representatives and received a special tribute from the State of Michigan to honor him on his retirement. “Dr. Price has devoted his life to research and higher education, and we cannot thank him enough.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you seen the relationship between the Flint community and the university evolve during your time here?
\n<\/strong>Actually it\u2019s kind of getting back to almost what it was before. It\u2019s heading \u201cback to the future\u201d almost, in a strange way. When I first got here Ellis Perlman\u00a0and Peter Gluck were both political science faculty involved in public administration. And they had been deeply involved in community and agency activity. We would go to lunch and things like that and they would introduce me to people. They knew pretty much everybody in the local government and non-profit world. So they introduced me to them and some of my students also were already involved. Some of the first people in my classes at UM-Flint were Bob Emerson, he was a state representative at the time and he went on to be a state senator but also budget director for the State of Michigan under the whole period of the Granholm administration; John Cherry was a student who went on to be lieutenant governor; Deb Cherry was a student who went on to be the treasurer of Genesee County. Other people have gone on to be leaders of organizations throughout the region so that has been really good. That was early on in my career that I knew people involved in all sorts of organizations. So it was almost organic, at least in the field in which I have interest, that people from my department, from the discipline, have been involved in the community. I think that dissipated a little bit as the place grew. And maybe it was the proclivities of our faculty changing. But I think as Flint has declined people tended to move farther away and that led to a kind of a lack of connection or organic knowledge of the place. We\u2019re seeing now that it\u2019s re-combining. I think the new Chancellor is on board with that idea of really integrating the community into all that we do. I think it\u2019s a good direction and I think it got lost for a little while. My expectations are that people of the discipline in which I am involved will be connected to agencies and programs around the area.<\/p>\n

What benefits do you see from those connections for our students?
\n<\/strong>A couple of different things: they get practical experience through working on projects if they are doing research with a faculty member. They get, through the internship programs, access to agencies and the more the agencies know the people who are involved in UM-Flint the more likely they are to encourage our students to get internships and then maybe turn those internships into opportunities for jobs.
\nPlus, it enriches the pedagogy of class. We\u2019re moving a little more towards a traditional aged population with our dorms and early college, but at the same time we have people in our classes who are actually experienced in the field in which they are getting an education. You can really learn a lot from the students we have in our classes. That\u2019s an opportunity both for other students and the faculty members to learn more about how the world works outside of the academic study of it.
\nOur students benefit by seeing what\u2019s occurring in the world, but also being able to then link that to an academic structure or framework from which they can make conclusions about what to do or how to help. Almost all the agencies and organizations need people who are competent to think critically and make decisions and try to help resolve some of the problems in our area and region.<\/p>\n

\"Awards2\"<\/a><\/strong>What do you think the College of Arts & Sciences has in its future?
\n<\/strong>I see the college returning to its roots of being more integrated into the community, and more than it ever has been before. We\u2019ve hired a number of young faculty in the past couple of year who have that focus: to be engaged in the community. That\u2019s gratifying, to see a return to Flint as opposed to seeing Flint as just a place to teach. I see UM-Flint, and the College of Arts and Sciences in particular, as the intellectual home of an interdisciplinary problem solving apparatus that can impact the world. And I think that\u2019s what we ought to be doing. We tend to focus on disciplines and academic life, people identify as a Political Scientist or a Geologist \u2013 whatever their training is \u2013 problems are more complex that that, they have a number of interacting variables. What we really need is to look at a problem and see which disciplines can impact that and in what ways and focus those disciplines on that problem. I see that as a real opportunity. We\u2019ve got so many things that we can look at here that need to be addressed, and we have a bunch of really smart people, and students who want to do things. This is really an opportunity to engage our students in real-world problem solving \u201cout there\u201d instead of \u201cin here\u201d with our faculty as intellectual guides who are also learning themselves.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Price was also awarded the Paul Wellstone Memorial Award by the Genesee County Progressive Democratic Caucus. This award honored Dr. Price for showing “personal commitment to the progressive ideals that are the foundation of American society.” This award has only been given out once before.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What are you most proud of from your time at UM-Flint?
\n<\/strong>The thing about which I have the greatest pride is probably undeserved. And it is being part of the process that allows people to accomplish what they do in their lives. So seeing the graduates of the MPA program, the undergraduates in Public Administration, and being the Pre-Law advisor, to see people go off into the world and actually have responsibilities in things, to do things important in the world, that feels good. Even though you\u2019re only partly related to it. I can\u2019t go to a meeting or an organization or an agency in this area without running into somebody who was either in my classes or was in the MPA program or was in undergraduate Public Administration. So to have been involved in the preparation of people for the work that they\u2019ve done in the world has been pretty satisfying, and humbling. You can\u2019t claim credit or blame when people do things, but to have been engaged in the process of getting to people to where they are, where they can impact the world, that is pretty gratifying.<\/p>\n

What advice or encouragement do you have for students?
\n<\/strong>Take your education seriously, embrace it. It isn\u2019t a hoop to jump through; it\u2019s something that, if you embrace it, can lead to a better understanding of yourself and a better understanding of the world. We do provide a credentialing apparatus, that\u2019s what college can be, but what I would recommend is that students not think of life like that, instead think of life as \u201cI need to know more.\u201d Virtually every subject in which you can take a course in the College of Arts & Sciences has a perspective and information to better understand the world. I think students don\u2019t intuitively know that because they\u2019ve been processed for the most part through a system that didn\u2019t encourage a lot of learning as a valuable function in itself. To be intellectually curious is really a value that the College can provide. Our students need to think that way: that they can do anything, that they can learn anything. Really this is the process of a college education is to make you a learning machine. You can learn anything.<\/p>\n

Do you have advice for CAS faculty?
\n<\/strong>Get engaged in the community. Find how your discipline impacts the world, then go try to solve problems using your discipline as a starting point. That solves the relevancy question. Education for its own sake is nice, and I\u2019m not opposed to people just seeking education, but the world is just full of problems that we need to solve, and we need to solve them from a wide range of academic interests and perspectives. Going out and actually engaging the world will be more meaningful for the faculty members who are helping students to reach their objectives.
\nIt\u2019s our job to help students see there is a different purpose. Yes, you need to have a job, but the job should be solving some problem. We should say “what can I do to solve problems in the world”, not “how much money can I make?” “How can what I\u2019m learning impact the world?” will lead to a whole lot more satisfaction in life. To do something where you help people and take care of your own life at the same time is what makes for a more satisfying life.
\nThere are so many problems facing the world, and we\u2019re not focusing the energy of society on solving the problems to make a better world for everybody.<\/p>\n

Are there any innovations in teaching or\u00a0research in CAS you’d like to discuss?
\n<\/strong>The most innovative things in the last few years have been primarily at the Masters level. But they are really interesting.
\nThe Master of Arts in Liberal Studies is now available fully online Rackham program. That should expand the available audience to statewide and, if not that, nationwide. It\u2019s one of the purest, in terms of academic purpose.
\nThe second is the Master of Arts in Communication. That is also fully online and it is a cohort system, which is different. Students take a set of classes together as they go through the program. It\u2019s one of the first in the country to be focused on applied communication in an organizational setting.
\nComputer Science has a Masters program that has been expanded over the last several years and they consistently draw 600-700 applicants per semester. To help meet their stream of students they have built three cyber classrooms, which are pretty cool. It\u2019s a way of bringing education in that field into the digital age.
\nAnother\u00a0thing within\u00a0the College is the reformatting of the Secondary Education program to be true team teaching between the disciplines in CAS, for the content courses, and someone in SEHS for the pedagogy lead. UM-Flint is leading the way in this. And the place-based part of this is really cool; you have people develop learning in the environment in which they\u2019ll be operating as opposed to just using a textbook. This is a real innovation in education and CAS has been fully partnered in that.
\nAnother innovation\u00a0is the Zick Classroom in Physics. It\u2019s a hands-on environment that works exceptionally well. It\u2019s tremendous. It\u2019s a real shift in pedagogy and it\u2019s moving in the best practice direction and away from giant lecture halls.
\nWe also have a very robust undergraduate research environment in CAS.<\/p>\n

Do you\u00a0have any final thoughts on liberal education for our readers?
\n<\/strong>I think the world is starting ask questions as to why we\u2019re not valuing well the things that the College of Arts & Sciences has done in the past and we maybe are becoming over technical in our educational processes. What they say in business world is that they can help train [graduates] in the technical stuff; they can\u2019t train them in the critical thinking, or communication, or ethical decision-making and environments. That needs to be there up front, and we can do that in the College of Arts & Sciences to prepare people for a wide array of disciplines in their careers. What enriches the life is the knowledge beyond your technical field. CAS is pretty well positioned for that.<\/p>\n

How do you think\u00a0you’ll feel once you’re retired?
\n<\/strong>That\u2019s an interesting question. Like I said, this is the first time since 1970 that I\u2019m not going to be going to school in the fall. I\u2019m going to be involved more in my grandchildren\u2019s lives. We\u2019re moving near D.C. I\u2019m signed up for the Brookings newsletter, I\u2019m going to be doing reading, and I\u2019m going to start blogging. I\u2019ll blog about politics and things related to the world in general. The blog is called \u201cAvoiding the Obvious.\u201d I\u2019ve put one thing up. It sort of summarizes what I\u2019m about: it\u2019s a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

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Professor Price with the Paul Wellstone Memorial Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At the recent MPA 35th Year Celebration, Dr. Price was honored by having a Public Administration scholarship established in his name. The first $5,000 in donations will be matched, allowing the fund to reach endowment status. If you would like to donate to this fund in his honor, contact the UM-Flint Development Office<\/a> at\u00a0(810) 424-5448.<\/em><\/p>\n

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