The HistoryMakers video oral history with Walter Broadnax.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 17 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312599
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Walter Broadnax
Walter Broadnax
Other authors / contributors:Broadnax, Walter D., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 24.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 26.
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Summary:Professor and university president Walter Doyce Broadnax was born on October 21, 1944, in Starr City, Arkansas. Broadnax graduated from Washburn University in 1967. He earned his M.P.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1969, and his Ph.D. degree from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 1975. Broadnax joined the Carter administration in 1980, as the principal deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1987, Broadnax became president of the New York Civil Service Commission. From 1993 to 1996, he was deputy secretary and chief operating officer for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. He also served as professor at the University of Maryland and dean of public administration at American University. In 2002, Broadnax became president of Clark Atlanta University; and in 2008, he was named distinguished professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.