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Spotlight on Students
by Patrick Dollar Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) has an extensive student worker, intern/practicum, and volunteer student worker program. Although the volunteer program has been temporarily suspended due to COVID-19, the department continues to employ 6-10 student workers and supervise several interns. Our students work on a variety of important projects, such as arranging […]
Staff and Students
Hinshaw and Dollar earn DAS Certificates SCUA is very proud to announce that Patrick Dollar and Scott Hinshaw have both earned the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Certificate from the Society of American Archivists. The DAS Certificate requires passing prescribed coursework and a comprehensive examination. “Building Partnerships for Student Success” grant received Kathelene McCarty Smith, Interim Head […]
Instruction and Student Success
by Erin Lawrimore As with all other work at UNCG (and elsewhere), our instructional work in SCUA has adapted to current restrictions in place to stem the spread of COVID-19. We are unable to host class visits in our reading room, thus limiting our ability to provide students with the ability to physically handle materials […]
New Digital Exhibit Curated by Natalie Branson (M.A. in History with a concentration in Museum Studies)
Natalie Branson, a second-year graduate student working on an M.A. in History with a concentration in Museum Studies, researched and developed an online exhibit focused on the work of the Women’s Association for the Betterment of Public Schoolhouses, an organization of women advocating for public education in North Carolina in the first quarter of the […]
New Exhibit!: “UNC Greensboro Back to the Future: The Story of the 1960s”
On March 14, 2019, more than thirty people stopped by Hodges Reading Room for an open house event to celebrate our new student-curated exhibit “UNC Greensboro Back to the Future: The Story of the 1960s.” Student curators provided visitors with personalized tours of the exhibit and provided reflections on their experiences researching campus history.This exhibit […]
Celebrating 125 Years of Opportunity and Excellence: An Exhibit of UNCG History
As part of the University’s celebration of 125 years of opportunity and excellence, the Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library will feature an exhibit of UNCG history through the end of the academic year. Exhibit materials will rotate throughout the year, with new content added on a bimonthly basis. It will conclude on May 31, […]
University Archives Showcased in 125th Anniversary Celebrations
On October 5, 2017, UNCG will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the first ever first day of school. On that day, nearly 200 women from across North Carolina traveled to Greensboro to attend classes at the State Normal and Industrial School. Over the last few weeks, the University Archives has been busy with pop up […]
UNCG’s Online History: Now in One Convenient Location!
For the last two years, University Archives has been working with the Internet Archive and their Archive-It member service to capture and preserve numerous UNCG-affiliated websites. You can learn more about the beginning of this work in January 2015 in a previous blog post. Now, in addition to seeing the versions of the site that […]
Happy Founders Day, UNCG!
October 5th is the day we celebrate Founders Day and the opening of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) in 1892. Here are some fun UNCG Founders Day trivia facts for you! On October 12, 1909, the first official Founder’s Day was dedicated to the memory of State Normal founder and President Charles […]
Hop into History!
On Thursday, September 15 from 5pm until 7pm, archivists from UNCG will be at Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company in Downtown Greensboro to launch the new monthly “Hop into History series with an exhibit on the local civil rights landscape in the 1950s and 1960s. Come see the typewriter used by one of the first African American […]
