College History Garden

The scotsinbritishcolumbia blog published an interesting post on November 14, 2018 by Georgia Twiss, " A Tale of Two Simon Frasers:...

100 years of articles from  The Indiana Magazine of History are available online an no charge.  The magazine is one of the nation's...

Jenny Barker-Devine, associate professor of history, and students in her digital history class are featured by Illinois College in " ...

The U.S. Bureau of Education organized an extensive study of black colleges and universities that is available at no charge as a .pdf, ...

The Heirlooms Reunited blog posted an entry February 7, 2016 that reproduces the pages from an 1890 commencement program of Lansley Busi...

Chris Gehrz posted a description on The Pietist Schoolman blog of web pages devoted to the history of Bethel University during this pas...

Paul Batesel, a former colleague and emeritus professor of English at Mayville State University has created an amazing site devoted to th...

As noted in the previous post, I have enjoyed pinning over 690 images related to the history of colleges and universities and organizing...

I've been exploring use of Pinterest  as a way to organize and share images of institutions that have closed.  Tools available throug...

Our Presbyterian Institutions 1913-1914 is available in several formats through the Internet Archive.  The document includes brief descri...

Edwin Emerson's The College Year-Book and Athletic Record for the Academic Year 1896-97 is available in a variety of formats through th...

The Bishop College alumni association maintains a web site at http://www.bishopcollegealumni.com/ . A historically black college, the ...

The St. John's College operated in Winfield, Kansas from 1893 to 1986. The city of Winfield maintains the campus as Baden Square and ha...

Fernanda Perrone's paper, Vanished Worlds: Searching for the Records of Closed Catholic Women's Colleges , summarizes results of a s...

On the Brink of Disaster? an article in August 2009 by David J. Koon on the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy website explores issu...

Dr. Dorothy Finnegan, Associate Professor of Higher Education at William & Mary, offers links to several articles that explore the influ...

Judy Aulik maintains an interesting site with many images of library postcards. She has added a page with images of Carnegie Libraries th...

See Kim Clark's interesting article, Colleges Play the Name Game , posted 9/17/09 at U.S. News & World Report . The article includes...

Inside Higher Ed offers an interesting article, " Time to close the College?" by Alice Brown. The author summarizes key findings ...

An interview with Dr. James Owston from June 9, 2009 is now available on the West Virginia Public Broadcasting website. Dr. Owston conducte...