Urban Studies at 50, Oral History Interviews, 2020

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Summary

Extent:
7 gigabyte(s)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Urban Studies at 50, Oral History Interviews (SC1580). Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains oral history interviews with faculty and students involved with the creation and early years of the Program on Urban Studies at Stanford. Participants recall how they got interested in urban studies as a field, their participation in the administration of the program, and some of the courses in the program.

Biographical / historical:

Piloted in the fall of 1969 by a committee of the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU), the Stanford Program on Urban Studies began in an age of experimentation with student-initiated curriculum. At the time, the program consisted of three courses run by a single student administrator. In 1985, the program was authorized to grant Bachelor of Arts degrees; by 2020, the program listed or cross-listed some forty courses and was home to approximately thirty undergraduate majors and minors.

Timed to follow closely on the program's 50th anniversary, this oral history project uses documentary sources and interviews with affiliated faculty, program leaders, and students to understand how and why the Program on Urban Studies was started, and how it has changed over time. The project aims to produce more than just an institutional history; it hopes to illuminate larger themes in the history of student activism, and in the politics of urban knowledge.

Acquisition information:

Interviews were conducted as part of the Community History Toolkit, an effort by University Archives and the Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program sponsored by a grant from the Stanford Associates.

Administrative transfer, 2021.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The materials are open for research use. Please note that some recordings and transcripts may be restricted to members of the Stanford community or may be closed until a future date per conditions set by oral history agreement.

Terms of access:

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish

Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Urban Studies at 50, Oral History Interviews (SC1580). Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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