F2023: Assignments & Readings Schedule

• Lab (Thursdays): Designated activity or assignment, location as noted.
• Assignments: are listed for the week they are assigned, and due the following week
• Reading: Same as above (i.e. week 1’s readings should be read before week 2's class)
• Note: Readings are linked on a rolling basis; please ask if you need them in advance

• Preface (IX-XII) and pages 281 - 314 only: Roger Geiger, The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)
• Pages 73 - 76 only: "Congressional Record: University of Illinois Centennial," in Report of the Centennial Year of the University of Illinois, February 28, 1967 to March 11, 1968.
• Paul Schroeder, "Why?", The Daily Illini (March 15, 1968)
• Pages 377-382 only: Star, Susan Leigh. The Ethnography of Infrastructure, American Behavioral Scientist 1999 43: 377.

• Pages 50 - 59: Leslie J. Reagan,“Timothy Nugent: ‘Wheelchair Students’ and the Creation of the Most Accessible Campus in the World,” in The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie
• Pages 165 - 187: Steven E. Brown, "Breaking Barriers: The Pioneering Disability Students Services Program at the University of Illinois: 1948-1960," in The History of Discrimination in US Education, edited by Eileen H. Tamura (New York: Palgrave McMillian, 2008)
• Skim this briefly (spend 20 minutes): Expanding Horizons: History of DRES, 1998

In Class Resources:

• Scalar Registration key:  

  • please use the key DYgRHpqFuRaQeUcg 

• Chapter 3: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013
• Pages 77 - 84: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, “Clarence Shelley: The Campaign to Diversify the University” in The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie
• Pages 219 - 223: Frederick E. Hoxie and Michael Hughes, “Nevada Street: A Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” in The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie

• Pages 32 - 81: Michael Metz, Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois, U. of Illinois Press, 2019. (also skim pages 19-21, 231-240)

• Ned Prutzer, The Biological Computer Laboratory
• Jamie Hutchinson, "Nerve center of the cybernetic world: Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory.”
• Bethany Anderson, "Heinz von Foerster and The Biological Computer Laboratory: A Cybernetics Odyssey," (https://archives.library.illinois.edu/blog/heinz-von-foerster-and-thebcl/) University of Illinois Archives blog

• To the University with Love: An Educational Reform Manifesto (University of Illinois, 1968)
• Proposal to Encourage Undergraduate Education Development at UIUC (1972)
• Unit One/Allen Hall History (1994) (pay particular attention to the "A Historical Survey-1971-1985" section, skim the rest, and ignore embedded links at end)

• Bruce MacFarlane. Researching with Integrity: The Ethics of Academic Enquiry. 2009. (Chapter 1: The Legacy of Nuremberg)
• Robinson Meyer. Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood-Manipulation Experiment. in The Atlantic.
• Register at the Training Login and choose the University Users log-in link. After you have logged in, click on "Training Library" in the lefthand sidebar, then search for the "CORE IRB Training" module. There are 5 required modules which should take you no more than an hour (and probably less) to complete.

• Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism, Chapter 2: Collect, Analyze, Imagine, Teach (pages 1-12)
• Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky, A Tour through the Visualization Zoo (click on the visualizations and explore them interactively)
• Skim: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ and https://flowingdata.com (30 minutes)

• Michael Metz, Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois, U. of Illinois Press, 2019. (Read the chapters: "Women Rising," 83-92; "1968: The Wildest Year," 136-142; "Spring ’69: Heating Up," 173-180; and "Spring '70; The Final Semester," 191-193).
• (Skim) Technograph: Student Engineering Magazine at Illinois, February 1970.
• We have visitors in class next week. Their bios are here.

• Here's the Survey Outreach Template we'll use.

• Fernanda Viégas,  Martin Wattenberg "Design and Redesign"
  Josh Cottrell-Schloemer, "Excel is your most overlooked design tool"
  Explore the visualizations on this site: The Atlas Of Redistricting
  Explore the visualizations on this site: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?"
• NEW: Audio recording from Alumni Conversation in Class, 10/24

• Here's the new Survey Outreach Reminder Email Template
• Here's the Interview Outreach Template and Sample Interview Questions.
• Here's the Interview Consent Form and the Interview Consent Form Tip Sheet.
• Here's a Guide for how to Record/Transcribe Video in Zoom.

• Don Bitzer, "Use of CBE for the Handicapped," American Annals of the Deaf 124.5 (1979)
• Pages 149-162: Valerie Lamont, “New Directions for the Teaching Computer: Citizen Participation in Community Planning,”Technological Forecasting and Social Change5 (1973)
• Pages 17-20: Larry Weber, "Blind Student Power," Technograph (October 1968)

• Chapters 3 - 7, Yang, Andrew. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs. Hachette Books: 2018.
• Read the Executive Summary (pp. 3-5) to the Champaign County Illinois Community Health Improvement Plan 2021-23.