Assignment 7: Reading Response and Preliminary Proposal Worksheet
1. Unit One/Allen Hall, an innovation for UIUC and the first residential learning community on campus – emerged at a moment when a ‘revolution’ in undergraduate education was taking place, influenced by a larger context beyond questions about higher education. In the Unit One/Allen Hall History" (1994), can you glean from the structure of the early program years what critiques had been made about undergraduate educational experiences at UIUC (and of higher education more broadly)? In 1 paragraph:
- a. Provide an example(s) of possible critiques;
- b. Identify at least 1 challenge the program faced from its inception, and why was this so?;
- c. Consider: How does the evolution of Unit One/Allen Hall make visible the vulnerabilities of innovation? Where else have we seen vulnerability in innovation this semester?
3. To what extent can you see different versions of safety for the campus being argued for by students and University leadership in these documents?
Part 2: Preliminary Project Worksheet
On Thursday, our lab will be held in the Archives Research Center/Student Life & Culture Archives (1707 S. Orchard Street).
- As a travel tip, the Red, Teal, Raven, and 22 buses stop near the SLCA. (You can also walk to the SLCA from the FAR/PAR stop). You can use this Trip Planner to arrange to get there by 9:30 am. and see the MTD bus map here. If it were us, we would take the Teal bus (#12) that leaves the Illini Union at 9:07am and drops you off right in front of SLCA.
You'll also have lab time to do some background searches on primary sources that could be related to your Final Project topic and start thinking about possible sub-topics and questions for your Final Project.
Download and complete this PROJECT WORKSHEET to guide your searches and exploration of your topic. The worksheet asks you to make a preliminary topic selection and to search for sources related to your preliminarily proposed topic using the Illinois news resources data base (which includes the Daily Illini database), UIUC's Library Easy Search and Google Search. Complete the worksheet, and copy and paste the contents to your Scalar Page.