Browse Exhibits (28 total)



Activists and Authorities: A Chancellor's Place on a Campus in Protest

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A look into the role North Carolina State University's chancellor, John Caldwell, played during the campus's 1970 protests following the shootings at Kent State University. The transformation of State College to NC State University, along with the write-in election of Cathy Sterling as student body president, created an environment ripe for the Peace Retreat, which allowed students on both sides of the fence of the Vietnam War to speak together and voice their opinions. Caldwell represented a new tide of educators who welcomed an age of student-faculty cooperation in creating a better, more relevant educational environment at NC State and across the country, and as such, helped contribute to making the campus a good environment to facilitate peaceful political discussions.

The two section headings in this exhibit are lyrics taken from the Canned Heat 1970 song "Let's Work Together", written by Wilbert Harrison. The song's lyrics exemplify the activist environment of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

This exhibit is part of a larger project detailing how State College became NC State University and how that, along with Chancellor Caldwell's administration, created an environment on the campus that was favorable to the election of Cathy Sterling and the subsequent occurence of the Peace Retreat in response to the Vietnam War. To see more about this project, visit Activists and Authorities.

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Activists and Authorities: Reporting on Protest

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Throughout the protests on NC State in May 1970 and the following Peace Retreat the university newspaper, the Technician, was a powerful voice towing the line between observing and encouraging the protests. Descriptions of major events abound throughout the volumes, but were rarely without editorial comments. The Technician kept its letters to the editor open to a variety of opinions, and often published speeches on the front page. A majority of the editorials from the newspaper were in favor of the protests. 

This exhibit is part of a larger project detailing how State College became NC State University and how that process, along with Chancellor Caldwell's leadership, created an environment on the campus that was favorable to the election of Cathy Sterling and the subsequent occurence of the Peace Retreat in response to the Vietnam War. To see more about this project, visit Activists and Authorities.

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Activists and Authorities: The Election of Cathy Sterling

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Leading the campus in 1970-1971 during the peace protests, Cathy Sterling brought significant change to NC State. Sterling pushed for students' rights on and off campus. As the first woman to serve as Student Body President, Sterling represented a shift in attitudes about who could successfully represent NC State's student body.

This exhibit is part of a larger project detailing how State College became NC State University and how that, along with Chancellor Caldwell's administration, created an environment on the campus that was favorable to the election of Cathy Sterling and the subsequent occurence of the Peace Retreat in response to the Vietnam War. To see more about this project, visit Activists and Authorities.

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Activists and Authorities: The Radicalization of N.C. State

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This exhibit is part of a larger project detailing how State College became NC State University and how that, along with Chancellor Caldwell's administration, created an environment on the campus that was favorable to the election of Cathy Sterling and the subsequent occurence of the Peace Retreat in response to the Vietnam War. To see more about this project, visit Activists and Authorities.

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Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension | Primary Source Lesson Plan

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The goal of this lesson plan is to teach high school students about the changing North Carolina agriculture industry in the 20th century, through the analysis of primary sources from the North Carolina State University Special Collections Archives. Some sources come from other archival repositories about agriculture. 

The various primary sources included in the lesson plan correlate with the North Carolina Essential Standards, Social Studies - “American History II: The Founding Principles” because the sources complement the historic period and specific objectives: industrialization, urbanization, and the evolution of various perceptions of the “American Dream.”[1]

This lesson plan is part of a larger exhibit project titled "Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension." For more on this project visit the home page.

If you are interested in exploring the exhibit's primary source collection click on the following links:

Green 'N' Growing

Agricultural Collection

 

 



[1] “North Carolina Essential Standards, Social Studies – American History Course II,” Public Schools of North Carolina, last modified October 6, 2011, accessed http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/standards/new-standards/social-studies/american-history-2.pdf

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Agricultural Empowerment: Diversifying the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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“Empowerment in Education – Women, African Americans, and high school students in the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences” analyzes the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ (SALS) dismantling of its educational hierarchy from the 1960s through the 1980s. The agricultural program originally privileged white males with educational empowerment in the advancing field of agriculture. From the 1960s to the 1980s, a new Associate’s degree program was opened, women were recognized as important members of the program, and SALS began to systematically recruit and retain African American students. 

This exhibit is part of a larger project: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension

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Agricultural Empowerment: The Industry of Agriculture

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This exhibit focuses on the role of agricultural research at North Carolina State University in the transformation of agriculture from subsistance to industrialized. The exhibit first identifies the goals of agricultural research at the university, and then discusses major trends in agricultural research. It also examines the ways in which the results of this research were relayed to rural farmers. The exhibit concludes with an overview of the impact of agricultural research and industrialization on North Carolina farmers and North Carolina agriculture.

This exhibit is part of a larger project: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension.

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Agricultural Empowerment: The North Carolina Extension Service and the Farmer’s Family

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The Extension Service developed programs for rural families in the early twentieth century that promoted rural reform. One of the main goals of the Extension Service was to make farm families more efficient and productive. This exhibit examines the North Carolina Extension Service’s programs for women and children and the extent to which Extension efforts were beneficial and disadvantageous to those individuals.

This exhibit is part of a larger project: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension.

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Crossing the Color Line: A Means of Protest, 1968-1972

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Crossing the Color Line: A Means of Protest, 1968-1972, examines the activities of the black student organization the Society of Afro-American Culture (SAAC) at North Carolina State University from its founding in 1968 until 1972. Self-identified as the "political and cultural organization of Black Students at NC State University," the SAAC took part in student outreach and campus demonstrations.1

Analyses of documents crafted by and about the organization reveal that the SAAC adhered to larger national black student organization trends, such as aligning itself with the relatively young Black Power Movement. Throughout its formative years, the SAAC concerned itself with a broad spectrum of local, national, and international issues, including the plight of black non-academic staff members at NC State.

Many of the sources were drawn from the limited SAAC holdings available at NC State's Special Collections. These include SAAC documents and newspaper articles from the student newspaper, the Technician.

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Crossing the Color Line: A Place of Their Own, 1973-1975

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Crossing the Color Line: A Place of Their Own, 1973-1975 explores the efforts of several NC State students, particularly the members of the Society of Afro-American Culture, in establishing an African American Cultural Center in spring 1974. The exhibit analyzes the many ways in which African American students lobbied for support of the Cultural Center and how the 1974 race relations conference at the Quail Roost Conference Center raised awareness of and support for the Cultural Center among white students.

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