Renate Mai-Dalton--Endacott Society Interview

Abstract

Renate Mai-Dalton was hired as Assistant Professor in the University of Kansas School of Business in 1979 and taught until her retirement in 2010. During the interview she describes growing up in post-WWII Berlin as well as the educational system in Germany during the 1950s and 1960s. After marrying a US serviceman and moving to the American northwest, she acquired several degrees in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology in 1978. She describes raising children in the predominately white community of Lawrence. She was founder of the Multicultural Scholars program and was a HOPE--Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator--award winner. A strong supporter of women athletes, she describes inequalities in athletics at KU.