History is sometimes portrayed as a dry, uninteresting subject. In a society that has much to look forward to, why would we want to spend time looking back? But people who argue this are missing the point—studying history is the exact reason we are able to understand our present and plan for the future. This is what the Ball State University Honors College Oral History Project team set out to do in the Spring 2019 semester. The ten student team members conducted three video-recorded interviews each with prominent current and former Honors College faculty and staff and notable alumni. The end product is the first university record to tell a complete story of the Ball State Honors College. These recorded interviews will be permanently ...
This thesis was part of a larger project, The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral Hi...
This thesis was part of a larger project, The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral Hi...
Academic archivists have an opportunity to document the lives of key members of the institution. An ...
The Ball State University Honors College is a liberal arts institution in a public university. As t...
Oral storytelling has been a part of historical narratives since the beginning of speech and culture...
The following thesis is a summary of the steps taken over a year and a half in putting together and ...
This Honors thesis project follows an immersive learning course entitled the Ball State University A...
I believe in letting people speak, for through speaking, one is heard, understood, and one’s valley...
The goal of this thesis was to conduct oral history interviews with African American alumni of Ball ...
For incoming high school students, history education is commonly hindered by limiting misconceptions...
Ball State University is over a hundred years old as of the writing of this document, yet the stori...
In the 1920s and 30s, sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd conducted a study on a municipality they t...
For incoming high school students, history education is commonly associated with limiting misconcept...
This paper discusses the history of the Ball State University Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic f...
African-Americans have been attending what is now Ball State University from at least the 1920s, but...
This thesis was part of a larger project, The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral Hi...
This thesis was part of a larger project, The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral Hi...
Academic archivists have an opportunity to document the lives of key members of the institution. An ...
The Ball State University Honors College is a liberal arts institution in a public university. As t...
Oral storytelling has been a part of historical narratives since the beginning of speech and culture...
The following thesis is a summary of the steps taken over a year and a half in putting together and ...
This Honors thesis project follows an immersive learning course entitled the Ball State University A...
I believe in letting people speak, for through speaking, one is heard, understood, and one’s valley...
The goal of this thesis was to conduct oral history interviews with African American alumni of Ball ...
For incoming high school students, history education is commonly hindered by limiting misconceptions...
Ball State University is over a hundred years old as of the writing of this document, yet the stori...
In the 1920s and 30s, sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd conducted a study on a municipality they t...
For incoming high school students, history education is commonly associated with limiting misconcept...
This paper discusses the history of the Ball State University Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic f...
African-Americans have been attending what is now Ball State University from at least the 1920s, but...
This thesis was part of a larger project, The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral Hi...
This thesis was part of a larger project, The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral Hi...
Academic archivists have an opportunity to document the lives of key members of the institution. An ...