New Perspectives on the History of Being a College Student

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session explores new perspectives in the history of campus life in the United States. It examines students who have not always been prominent in the history of college life as well as institutions that have not always been the focus of research in higher education. This session embraces the 2018 AERA meeting theme of “Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education,” by exploring how different students at different periods and on different campuses—predominantly public colleges and universities—experienced higher education, what they wanted from it, what they focused on, how they built their experiences and, through that, how they established a collective campus student life.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• Michael S. Hevel, University of Arkansas

Papers

• "Enthusiasm and Mutual Confidence": Campus Life at State Normal Schools, 1870s–1900s - Christine A. Ogren, University of Iowa

• Student Life at Regional Colleges and Universities in the Mid-20th Century - Marc A. Van Overbeke, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Students and Labor in the 20th Century - Timothy Reese Cain, University of Georgia - Athens

• Hiding in Plain Sight: LGBTQ Students in the South - Kerry Brian Melear, The University of Mississippi; Amy E. Wells Dolan, The University of Mississippi

Discussant

• Michael S. Hevel, University of Arkansas