Chavez and Mathews were among the 36 M.S.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs students, including some enrolled in HESA 509: Campus Environments and Student Subcultures, who presented their projects Dec. 8 during the “Contemporary and Historic Social Movements at NIU” exhibit and reception held in the library.
Other projects examined topics such as Black Lives Matter, the women’s rights movement of the 1980s, the civil rights movement of the 1960s, GLBT rights, undocumented student rights and trans* student rights.
Significant support came from Founders Memorial Library staff Bradley Wiles, associate professor and head of Special Collections and Archives Department, and Alissa Droog, assistant professor and Education and Social Sciences librarian.
Wiles and Droog helped conceptualize the assignment and then assisted students in using the archives and finding sources for literature reviews of the larger historical context.
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