Documenting Social Justice Issues at the University of Wyoming

Controversy on Campus

Records come from students, faculty, and departments

Document UW’s history1960s-1980s: UW History collections

acquired and managed differently from manuscript collectionsWHY?

Departments, faculty, and students transferred records on their own accord – fortunately for us and researchers

University Archives’ History of Collecting

The Textbook Controversy, 1947-1948

Board of Trustees, Yearbook photo, 1948

Minutes, Faculty Senate records, Dec. 9, 1947

Petition, T.A. Larson papers, 1948

Pamphlet, UW President’s Office records

The Black 14, 1969

Black 14 collection

(donated by Irene

Kettunen Schubert)

UW President’s Office records

Black 14 collection (donated by Irene Kettunen Schubert)

All materials from the Matthew Shepard collection and Matthew Shepard Web Archive

Broader changes at the AHC in the 1990sUW Archives assists faculty and departments

with records managementUniversity Archivist now part of the processing

departmentLeaders in archives field call for “Activist

Archivists”

Changes in the Profession

All material from

the William

Ayers

Controversy

collection and

the Meg Lanker

papers.

William Ayers Controversy, 2010

How do we document everyday injustices and

social justice occurring at UW?

Laura Uglean Jackson

University Archivist

luglean@uwyo.edu