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Andreasen, Margaret (1935 - )
In Margaret Andreasen’s twenty-five years working in radio and television, she has spent an impressive thirty-two hundred hours hosting programs and interviewing guests. Andreasen earned all three of her English degrees at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—an AB in 1955, an AM in 1957, and a PhD in 1964. Between 1963 and 1980, she taught English at the State University of New York, Buffalo, she was director of public affairs at WICD TV-15 in Urbana-Champaign, and she was extension communications specialist and assistant professor in the Office of Agricultural Communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1980, she came to UW to accept a joint position in Extension and Agricultural Journalism. Initially she engineered and hosted “Dialogue,” a live, call-in program aired five days each week over Wisconsin Public Radio that allowed listeners to ask guests questions about consumer issues. She later co-hosted the popular program “To the Best of our Knowledge” and created a Saturday afternoon radio program called “Living Well.” This last program earned her the American Heart Association of Wisconsin’s 1998 Media Award. Her resident responsibilities included teaching courses in newswriting and communications skills to students in the School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences and in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences' Life Science Communications Department. Her research focused on family media consumption and on the relationship between personality variables and listening and reading behavior. She also served as chair of the Family and Consumer Communications Department from 1989 to 1992 and again in 1999. In 1999, Andreasen retired from UW and traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where she spent a year as Professor of Family Sciences, serving one semester as Assistant Dean, at Zayed University. She has since returned to Madison, where she is now involved in community service. |
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