As readers of this blog know, I’ve been working on a paper for a volume on campus crises. This week, the volume feels all the more relevant (if not, to use everyone’s favorite academic term “urgent”).
I’m putting the final touches on the first draft of my chapter which will focus on how the budget 2016-2018 budget crisis at UND shaped what I did in the classroom. Here’s the rough outline of my paper:
Introduction
Teaching as Activism (here, here)
The Anatomy of the UND Budget Crisis
Teaching a Class on the University Budget
The Wesley College Documentation Project
Conclusion
With any luck, the conclusion will be done by the end of the week!
I came to realize that my writing about the UND budget crisis drew upon on a pretty interesting group of documents that my classes both produced and used upon. I know that I’ve shared a few of them here in the past, but now seems to be an appropriate time to share all of them.
First, here is the syllabus for my class on the UND Budget.
History of North Dakota: Women’s Hockey, Higher Ed & the UND Budget
That class and the gradate reading seminar that I ran in the Fall of 2017 produced a pair of short, free, downloadable books:
Defending History: The Graduates Manifesto
Hawks, Hockey, and the Budget at the University of North Dakota
The class relied upon a document reader that was the product of a small graduate seminar. Joe Kalka, who was a student in that seminar (and the course that produced produced it. It remains a useful archival record of the budget situation on UND’s campus. We tried to stabilize the hyperlinks using the Internet Archive, but a number of the links don’t work. It nevertheless provides a basic survey of the sources that students in the UND budget class could use to
Higher Education and Budgets Course Document Reader
We shared the first chapter of Andrew Larson’s thesis with the class as a general survey of the recent history of higher education grounded in some of the classic works on the field, but with an
Andrew F. Larson, “Not Your Advisor’s Doctorate: The Doctor Of Arts And The Modernization Of Higher Education 1945-1970.” Unpublished D.A. Thesis, University of North Dakota, 2020.
We also benefited from a couple of other documents:
William Caraher, “History at the University of North Dakota 1885-1970,” Unpublished 2009.
Louis G. Geiger, University of the Northern Plains: a History of the University of North Dakota, 1883-1958. UND Press, 1958
Of course, there have been several publications, both formal and more casual, out of our broader work on the UND budget:
Letters of Edward Robertson President Emeritus, Wesley College, From 1935.
Wyatt Atchley, “Images of Austerity,” NDQ 85 (2018), 124-125.
Melissa Gjellstad and Ryan Zerr, “Faculty Navigating the Age of Austerity: Affirming Roles and Renewing Alliances,” NDQ 85 (2018), 162-180.
William Caraher, “Humanities in the Age of Austerity: A Case Study from the University of North Dakota,” NDQ 85 (2018), 208-221.
William Caraher , Michael Wittgraf , Wyatt Atchley, “Hearing Corwin Hall: The Archaeology of Anxiety on an American University Campus,” Epoiesen (2021).
Wyatt Atchley, “Wesley College: Progressive Era Education in North Dakota.” Unpublished MA Thesis, NDSU, 2023.
William Caraher, “Documenting Wesley College: A Mildly Anarchist Teaching Encounter,” in Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era. Gabe Moshenska ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. (You can download a pre-print of this article here).
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