Project Name: Taking A Stand: Student Social Justice Movements at Gettysburg College from 1980 to the Present
Project Owner : Lauren White
Project Summary
The goal for my project is to create a comprehensive and interactive timeline detailing student-led social justice movements at Gettysburg College from 1980 to the present. I will use Timeline JS software and a WordPress platform to detail at least ten major instances of student activism and how each event impacted the campus and how it tied in to local and national attitudes towards social justice. I am primarily creating this for the Gettysburg College student body; however, I would be thrilled for my audience to include faculty, staff, and students from other institutions.
Deliverables
- The oral histories, Gettysburg College factbooks, photographs, SURGE articles and Gettysburgian and Gettysburg Times articles which can be found in the College Archives or from college administration
- Stories from alumni and current students about their experiences with activism at Gettysburg
- WordPress and Timeline JS
- Zotero
Timeline
- Week 3: Finalize WordPress theme, and contact all the alumni or current students I intend to work with
- Week 4: Understand Timeline JS and any other programs that are of interest to me
- Week 5: Finalize the bulk of my research attained from special collections, my secondary sources, and the college factbooks.
- Week 6: Finalize interviews with alumni and students willing to be a part of my project, and work out any copyright issues I may encounter.
- Week 7: Have all research in a digital format.
- Weeks 8 and 9: Fill in any blanks I may have left, edit website, and prepare for my project presentation.
- Week 10: Finalize and deliver project presentation
- End of Life/Future Plans
- I plan to continue work on my project after the fellowship is completed and expand the time range to include earlier dates. Additionally, it is my desire that the timeline be continually updated as student activism continues to take place at Gettysburg.
