Campus Landmark Tour: Walking To Reverberate On African-American History

The University of Maryland is offering an African-American History as well as the University of Maryland: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Campus Landmark Tour.  The self-guided walking tour of the campus commissioned past times the Office of Diversity as well as Inclusion highlights landmarks associated amongst the deport on of African Americans at the academy as well as throughout history.  

The landing page for the tour notes, "From its antebellum founding through the acquaint day, Terp life has been shaped past times to a greater extent than than only those who wrote the official version of history. There was a fourth dimension when students as well as visitors of coloring were outsiders here, but through the sacrifices of before pioneers—reflected inwards our campus fabric—each brick as well as blade of drinking glass belongs to them equally well."

The materials used inwards developing the tour as well as related website were drawn from campus reports as well as the academy libraries as well as archives.

Consider leaving a Federal Reserve notation as well as link inwards the comment department below this post if you lot know of other campus walking tours.

Mapping Campus History

The University of Illinois Library hosts a spider web page amongst several interactive maps that display aspects of the institution's history. One, focuses on campus buildings from the 1860s to the present. 

Another example...African American Student Housing at the University of Illinois: 1930- 1950.  Photos too historical sketches seem equally y'all scroll downwardly the landing page 

A third...University of Illinois Fraternity too Sorority Tour: 1912-1913 amongst locations too photographs. 

Consider posting links inwards the comments below if y'all convey been involved amongst a projection mapping institutional history or function across a skillful event inwards your spider web searching.

Selling The Campus Of Daniel Webster College

New Hampshire Public Radio posted an interesting article final calendar week past times Paige Sutherland, "For Sale: H5N1 53-Acre College Campus (With Airplane Hangar)," on the sale of the Daniel Webster College campus inwards Nashua, NH.  The for-profit establishment unopen later the 2016-17 academic year.  The article is accompanied past times a five-minute well version.  It too includes a wonderful graphic of the Blue Planet alongside the colleges that accept unopen since 1969.  Readers tin click to uncovering out when an establishment unopen as well as the electrical flow operate of each campus.

You tin too uncovering links to before reporting from NHPR on Daniel Webster's closing:

• "After Nashua's Daniel Webster College Signs Off, What's Next For Students And Staff?" By RICK GANLEY & MICHAEL BRINDLEY • MAY 26, 2017
• "SNHU Decides Against Buying Former Daniel Webster Campus," By PAIGE SUTHERLAND • JUL 31, 2017
• "Nashua Aldermen Say 'No' to Buying Daniel Webster College Campus," By PAIGE SUTHERLAND • SEP 13, 2017
• "Looking to Buy a College Campus? There's One for Sale inwards Nashua," By PAIGE SUTHERLAND • AUG 30, 2017

If you lot are interested inwards recent trends for closures as well as mergers, access College Closures since 2009 in the index at the correct of any  page.  There are carve upwards tabs for non-profit as well as for-profit closures.  Each tab includes basic information for each institution, i.e., Carnegie Classification, sector, accrediting agency, as well as the IPEDS unitid.