Conrad J. "Bud" Weiser Papers, 1970-2004

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Conrad J. “Bud” Weiser (1935-) taught at Oregon State University for twenty years as a plant stress physiologist, horticulturalist, department head, and Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. His papers relate to his career at OSU, service to the larger horticultural science profession, and broadening the concept of scholarship for faculty tenure and promotion.

Access to one folder ("Course materials - Hort 520, Research planning and organization, exam answers") is restricted until 2057 due to the presence of confidential information. For more information about access to restricted materials, please see our Guide to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center. All other materials in the collection are open.

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ID: MSS Weiser

Extent: 1.35 cubic feet

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While attending North Dakota State College, Weiser changed his major from chemistry to horticulture. He graduated in 1957 specializing in horticultural crop physiology and pathology. He earned his doctorate from Oregon State College in 1960. After his PhD, Weiser began his career at the University of Minnesota, where he established and led the Laboratory of Cold Hardiness. Even during his time at the University of Minnesota, Weiser remained in contact with faculty at OSU. In the spring of 1971, he completed a three-month sabbatical at OSU researching plant hardiness with Dr. Mal Westwood. Just before the start of school that year, Weiser and his family took a trip to visit extended family in western North Dakota. On the way home, they were involved in a car accident that killed his wife and daughter. This loss and OSU calling to see if he would be interested in returning, led to Weiser making the decision to leave Minnesota. In 1973, he accepted the position as head of the Horticulture Department at OSU. In 1987, he was honored as a distinguished professor. He assumed the position of Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences in 1991 until his retirement in 1993.

OSU’s Horticultural Department was recognized as one of the top five departments in the United States during the eighteen years Weiser was its head. He established a 70-member industry board to advise the department and established collaborative tri-state horticultural programs in the Pacific Northwest. During this period, Weiser also served on national science policy boards for the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and he created and chaired the national panel that led to restructuring of the National Academy of Science and its National Research Council Board on Agriculture. He served as 72^nd President of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in 1981.

During a period of severe budget cuts, Weiser led an effort that resulted in the College of Agricultural Sciences and its 500 tenure track faculty members in 24 departments and research and extension centers across the state to view faculty scholarship as more than just published research results and to value and recognize faculty contributions to team efforts. He subsequently served on the Faculty Senate Committee that refined these concepts for the whole university. In 1995, OSU revised its promotion and tenure guidelines to reflect a larger vision of scholarship that permitted faculty members to do scholarship and document their scholarly achievements in teaching, advising, outreach, clinical work, performing arts, international or administrative assignments, as well as via traditional research and publications. Several other colleges and universities have used these concepts in considering and adopting similar changes.

Over his 33-year academic career, Weiser authored and co-authored about 180 publications. These publications were predominately in the areas of crop environmental stress physiology with emphasis on freezing injury and cold acclimation in plants, national science policy, interdisciplinary and regional coordination, college and university strategic plans, descriptive summaries of crop production and processing trends, and defining scholarship and describing it in several forms.

Weiser was born June 20, 1935 in Middlebury, Vermont, to Virgil Weiser and Ruth Haldorson. He grew up in Vermont, Virginia, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. In 1953, he married Jo Ann Tryznka (1935-1971), and they had four children: Russell, Jacqueline, Rachel, and Andrea. He married second, Adrienne Paulson (1938-) in 1972.

Author: Ashley Williams Clawson

Statement on Access: Access to one folder ("Course materials - Hort 520, Research planning and organization, exam answers") is restricted until 2057 due to the presence of confidential information. For more information about access to restricted materials, please see our Guide to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center. All other materials in the collection are open.

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Preferred Citation: Conrad J. “Bud” Weiser Papers (MSS Weiser), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Acquisition Note: Donated by Conrad J. "Bud" Weiser, 2016.

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Series 1: Conrad J. "Bud" Weiser Papers Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 1.01: Agro-biotechnology, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.02: Albert Nerken grant, 1984 Add to Shelf: Letters to Nerken, who donated money that helped fund a thesis research project.
Box-Folder 1.03: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.04: AAAS fellow nominations, 2000 February 24 Add to Shelf: American Association for Advancement of Science
Box-Folder 1.05: ASHS Awards Committee, 1984-1985 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.06: ASHS general correspondence, 1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.07: ASHS plant stress journal, 1991-1994 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.08: ASHS Research Division vice president, 1977-1978 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.09: ASHS Research Funding Committee, 1977-1978 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.10: Art, undated Add to Shelf: Photocopies of photographs and biography of Weiser as artist.
Box-Folder 1.11: Article - "Cold resistance and injury in woody plants", 1970 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.12: Article - "Freeze hardiness in trees", 1978-1979 Add to Shelf: Weiser was co-author on article. For Horticultural Reviews.
Box-Folder 1.13: Article - "Freezing and injury in plants" review, 1975 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.14: Article - "Freezing processes and injury in trees" reviews, 1981-1982 Add to Shelf: Weiser was co-author on article.
Box-Folder 1.15: Article - "Investing in research: a proposal to strengthen the agricultural, food, and environmental system", 1989 Add to Shelf: Produced by National Research Council.
Box-Folder 1.17: Article - "The value system of a university - rethinking scholarship" drafts, 1998 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.18: Board on agriculture, 1991-1995 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.19: Budget, 1992-1995 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.20: College of Agricultural Sciences administrative workshops, 1990-1992 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.21: Commodity Commission, 1980-1981 Add to Shelf: Proposed Processed Vegetable Commission.
Box-Folder 1.22: Course materials - FS 521, Research methods, undated Add to Shelf: Taught by John Gordon.
Box-Folder 1.23: Course materials - Hort 520, Research planning and organization, 1983 Spring Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.24: Course materials - Hort 520, Research planning and organization, 1985 Spring Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.25: Course materials - Hort 520, Research planning and organization, 1987 Spring Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.01: RESTRICTED Course materials - Hort 520, Research planning and organization, exam answers, 1987 Spring Add to Shelf: Access is restricted until 2057 due to the presence of confidential information. For more information about access to restricted materials, please see our Guide to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center.
Box-Folder 1.26: Course materials - Hort 520, Research planning and organization, 1989 Spring Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.27: E.R. Jackman Friends and Alumni annual fall meeting, 2003 October Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.28: Environmental stress research potentials, 1978 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.29: Faculty development and rewards, 1991-1992 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.30: Federation of Scientific Agricultural Societies (FSAS), 1981-1982 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.31: File and FYI, 1995-1998 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.32: General correspondence, 1976-1980 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.33: General correspondence, 1977-1978 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.34: General correspondence, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.35: General correspondence, 1991, 1994 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.36: Gordon research conference, 1984 June 25-1984 June 29 Add to Shelf: Temperature stress in plants. Held at Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire.
Box-Folder 1.37: Horticultural program coordination, 1974 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.38: International Horticulture Congress, 2002 Add to Shelf: Held in Toronto. Weiser was featured speaker for educators luncheon.
Box-Folder 1.39: International symposium, environmental stress section, 1977-1978 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.40: Invited presentations by Weiser on scholarship unbound concepts and process, 1994-2000 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.01: ITAA annual meeting, 2004 November Add to Shelf: Weiser spoke on the concepts of scholarship.
Box-Folder 2.02: Japan trip, 1979-1981 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.03: Long range planning, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf: Specifically related to College of Agriculture and developing a ten-year plan. Weiser served as co-chairman.
Box-Folder 2.04: Long Range Planning Committee, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.05: Looking to the future of CAS, 1991 October 31 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.06: National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1 of 2), 1980-1982 Add to Shelf: Recommendation for establishing a National Academy of Agricultural Sciences under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, along with feedback.
Box-Folder 2.07: National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2 of 2), 1980-1982 Add to Shelf: Recommendation for establishing a National Academy of Agricultural Sciences under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, along with feedback.
Box-Folder 2.08: National Academy of Agricultural Sciences endorsements, 1981-1982 Add to Shelf: Potential nominations for proposed National Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Box-Folder 2.09: National Academy of Agriculture, 1980-1983 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.10: National Academy of Agriculture, 1981-1982 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.11: National Academy of Agriculture, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.12: National Arboretum Advisory Council, 1994 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.13: NSF Advisory Committee for International Programs, 1981-1982 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.14: NSF Advisory Committee for International Programs, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.15: Northwest Ornamentals Research Center, 1991 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.16: Oregon State University faculty scholarship, 1995-2000 Add to Shelf: Broader scope of "scholarship" for faculty related to promotion and tenure guidelines.
Box-Folder 2.17: Organization and members, 1979 Add to Shelf: For National Research Council, which served as an operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
Box-Folder 2.18: Poetry, undated Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.19: Promotion and tenure guidelines drafts, 1995 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.20: Proposed conference on scholarship and related issues, 1996 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.21: Rethinking scholarship by university faculty, 1991-1996 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.22: Scholarship articles, 1993-2003 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.23: Scholarship unbound Kellogg grant, 1998-2000 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.24: Science Priorities Committee, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.25: Talk - presidential address to American Society for Horticultural Science, 1982 Add to Shelf: "Expanding needs and finite resources--can science meet the challenge?"
Box-Folder 2.26: Talks, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.27: Talks, 1991-1992 Add to Shelf: Notes for talks.
Box-Folder 2.28: Talk - "Faculty scholarship and productivity expectations, an administrator's perspective", 1995 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.29: Talks and workshops - rethinking tenure and promotion, 1995-1997 Add to Shelf: Weiser went to several universities across the United States to speak about re-thinking scholarship, using OSU as example. Universities include Iowa State University, Washington State University-Pullman, and Yale University.
Box-Folder 2.30: Talk - "Scholarship unbound for the 21st century", 2001 November Add to Shelf: Keynote address for "What is a teacher-scholar?" symposium held at the University of Saskatchewan.
Box-Folder 1.16: Talk - "A study of Extension effectiveness and the third mission innovations at Oregon State University", 2001 September Add to Shelf: PowerPoint slides and charts presented by Duane Dale.
Box-Folder 2.31: Task force responses, 1992-1993 Add to Shelf: Natural Resources Task Force at Oregon State University.
Box-Folder 2.32: Thank you letters for copies of articles, 1994-1997 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.33: U.S.-Japan scientist cooperative - Food Science Advisory meeting, 1976 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.34: U.S.-Japan scientist cooperators - temperature stress/membrane changes, 1978-1979 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.01: United Oregon Horticulture Industry Advisory Board, 1975-1976 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.02: United Oregon Horticulture Industry Advisory Board, 1977-1978 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.03: United Oregon Horticulture Industry Advisory Board, 1979-1980 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.04: United Oregon Horticulture Industry Advisory Board, 1981-1982 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.05: United Oregon Horticulture Industry Advisory Board, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.06: University of Saskatchewan standards for promotion and tenure, 2000 Add to Shelf: Proposed revisions to university standards along with information related to "What is a teacher-scholar?" symposium held there.
Box-Folder 3.07: Vitae and resumes, 1994-1999 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.08: Workshop - Rethinking scholarship, tenure and promotion, 1996-1997 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.09: Workshop - Scholarship unbound, 1998 Add to Shelf

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