Maintaining Freedom: Exploring Injustice and Campus Unrest

This project explores the institution of college education in the United States to understand the phenomena of unrest on the countries’ campuses. It uses archival research from California State University, Fresno to document the harsh time of unrest in the 1960s and 1970s. It aims to see both the positives negatives of campus unrest from that era and compare it to modern day campus unrest in the hopes of generating awareness on the issue and understanding best practices of both engaging in and addressing unrest. This project engages in multi-modal documentation, exhibition, and curation of those ideas through an online, digital humanities website titled “Maintaining Freedom: Exploring Injustice and Campus Unrest” using the platform Omeka. This project recognizes that unrest occurs when a culture is evolving, and evolution is something to be desired. However, unrest can cause conflict, and that conflict should not interfere with the primary goal of college instruction and the development of intellectuals. This project argues that academic freedom is something needed by faculty instructing on college campuses. However, no academic freedom would exist on campus if there was no unrest.