| Title |
Interview with Steven Olsen, Utah Humanities Board 2007-2012, for Utah Humanities Fiftieth Anniversary oral history project, 7 May 2024. |
| Creator |
Steven Olsen (1950) |
| Contributors |
Randy Williams (1961, interviewer, recordist, photographer) |
| Transcript |
Susan Gross, 09 May 2024 |
| Subject |
Utah Humanities Council; Utah Humanities; Utah Endowment for the Humanities; Nonprofit organizations--Management; Mission statements; Road Scholar, Inc.; Anniversaries; Utah Humanities--Member of the Board |
| Keyword |
Road Scholars; Utah Humanities Mission Statement; board structure; board committees; diverse Utah communities; liminal organization; Jubilee Year (50th Anniversary) |
| Description |
Steven Olsen talks about his five-year board service on the Utah Humanities Council, from 2007-2012, including as chair. Olsen participated in the Utah Humanities' Road Scholars program, as a lecturer, before he ever joined the board of (UH). During his board time, he helped to refine the mission statement, goals, and model of UH, to help guide the board into more of a working-oriented board by forming board committees to work to build up the diverse Utah communities. He relates all of UH's purpose, challenges, successes, relevancy and impact to it being a liminal organization it the way that term is used in the social sciences and humanities. |
| Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
| Holding Institution |
Utah Humanities; Utah Historical Society |
| Date |
2024-05-07 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5780993/salt-lake-city.html |
| Coverage |
LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary genre) |
| Format Extent |
1:01:54 AM |
| Extent |
21 leaves |
| Digitization Specifications |
Marantz Professional Digital Recorder: Model PMD660; Shure Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone: Model Microflex MX183 |
| Identifier |
MSS_D_1_UH50-OlsenSteve-REW-20240507.wav |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights Management |
Utah Historical Society; Utah Humanities |
| Rights |
 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s68y3mdc |
| Collection Number and Name |
Mss D 1 Utah Humanities at Fifty: An Oral History Project, 1975-2025 |
| Setname |
dha_uh50 |
| ID |
2667680 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68y3mdc |
