Call for Chapters: Colleges and Their Communities
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Call for Papers
Date:
April 10, 2023
Request for Proposal - Johns Hopkins University - Institutional History
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Type:
Call for Publications
Date:
May 9, 2022 to May 27, 2022
The new Universities are not like the old ones
Friends:
Below is an articledated November 12, 2021, by Jon Marcus entitled "As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening" from the Hechinger Report, a newsletter covering education, about the new "universities" that are appearing. Most of them seek to offer services to a previously underserved group of students. Below are a link and an excerpt:
New open access book: Alexander Williamson (UCL Press)
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Mary Virginia Cook c1890
Mary Virginia Cook, later Cook-Parrish, (1863-1945) around 1890 when she was professor of Latin and Mathematics as well as principal of the Normal School at Louisville's State University. By this time, she was already gaining a name for herself as an orator and journalist. Image snipped from Alice Allison Dunnigan, The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians: Their Heritage and Traditions (Washington D.C.: The Associated Pub. Inc., 1982): 244.
Ramapo College Architecture: From Birch Estate to Campus
May 3 , 2021 at 7:30 pm
In a ZOOM meeting on May 3, 2021 at 7:30 pm, Tom Dunn will moderate a program with Richard Roberts about the growth of Ramapo College facilities from a Black Angus cattle ranch to the first-class undergraduate college that it is 50 years later.
ESRC PhD Studentship: Commonwealth Students, UK Higher Education and the Making of Global Knowledge Networks, 1950–2000
We are recruiting to an ESRC-funded PhD studentship based at the University of Leicester (Dr Sally Horrocks) with joint supervision at the University of Warwick (Dr James Poskett).
The project title is Commonwealth Students, UK Higher Education and the Making
Carol Mattingly, African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville, 23 October 2020
Author: Carol Mattingly
Title: African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville
Publication: Arc GIS Story Map, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
Mary C. Roark, 1861-1922
Mary Caroline Creegan Roark (1 September 1861 - 1 February 1922) was born just south of Brighton, Iowa, on a family farm in Walnut Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, the daughter of Mary Ann McKee Creegan, of Ohio and Daniel Creegan, a farmer from Virginia.
Join us for Oral History Online Reading Series (Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of UC Santa Cruz)
Dear Colleages,
Our new OH book, Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of UC Santa Cruz, is having a series of online readings to get the word out and encourage folks to join the Seeds community and pick up copies from our second printing, which is just now hitting the shelves at our beloved local Bookshop Santa Cruz. We also want to experiment with ways an oral history book can connect, build, and engage virtual community in this time.
