Origins: Celebrating 40 Years of South Mountain Community College
Full-length documentary, founders’ panel and silent auction
5pm, January 22nd
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Premiere link: https://youtu.be/dGLmfSmwmCI
South Phoenix Oral History Project
Capturing and preserving the history of South Mountain Community College and South Phoenix
Origins: Celebrating 40 Years of South Mountain Community College
Full-length documentary, founders’ panel and silent auction
5pm, January 22nd
Click here to RSVP, pledge, and sign up for reminders!
Premiere link: https://youtu.be/dGLmfSmwmCI
Dear friends,
We are excited to share that the work of our faculty and students has been recognized as a recipient of the League Excellence Awards! The League Excellence Awards “recognize outstanding faculty, staff, and leaders in the community college field who have made a significant difference in the lives of students and in the communities their colleges serve.”
We are delighted that our work is being recognized in this way. Our college president, Dr. Shari Olson, will be at the annual League for Innovation conference this spring to represent the work done at SMCC.
See here for a list of 2020 winners: https://www.league.org/excellence
Written by: Summer Cherland
Over the weekend, I attended the Oral History Association Meeting in Salt Lake City. OHA is the go-to organization for all things oral history, and as a member of the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA), I was excited to attend this international conference!
The co-founders of the the South Phoenix Oral History Project and I presented on the work our students have been doing on behalf of our campus and our local community. The reception was great with folks from the Arizona Archives, the Salt River Project, and colleagues from the country weighing in on the good work we do. In our presentation, we got great feedback on SPOH’s use of multimedia, and people seemed stoked that we are doing work on the history of South Phoenix! After that, we got to explore a little bit of SLC.
I also had the opportunity to attend several panels and review posters about Oral History in a variety of forms. I watched two graduate students present on their academic work, I sat in on a discussion regarding using Oral History in undergraduate face to face and online classes, and I learned what other community college leaders are doing to incorporate this work in their classes.
At the SOHA Awards Reception, Travis May and I learned from Dr. Ignacio Garcia, a nationally sought Oral Historian, and represented South Mountain Community College, when we won a mini-grant from the organization!
All in all, I’d say we had a spectacular weekend!
Summer, 2019
Greetings historians! In the summer of 2019, a team of researchers, staff, faculty, and marketing experts worked together to build South Mountain Community College’s first functioning archive. Take a look at the photos below to chart our progress.
We had a few things going for us:
We also have our share of challenges:
So, we are working with our President’s Office, the Library, and our Facilities team to propose a long term storage and accessibility solution. Our hope is that this stuff can be preserved, archived, and indexed in a way that the community and students can access it safely, but that it is locked and protected for years to come.
We’ll keep you posted!
We are adding Narrator pages all summer long! Let us know what you think!