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From Classroom to Commons: Documenting the Total Student Experience in Higher Education

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Abstract

As educators and researchers in higher education increasingly recognize the importance of the out-of-classroom experience in the education process, academic archivists are challenged to better document student life. Recent literature, sessions at professional conferences, and an admittedly non-scientific survey on the Archives Listserv attest to archivists' continuing efforts to collect documentation on this elusive, but significant, part of higher education. Using an endowed student life and culture archival program at the University of Illinois Archives as an example, the author examines the issues related to documenting the total student experience in American colleges and universities.

How to Cite:

Straw, J., (1994) “From Classroom to Commons: Documenting the Total Student Experience in Higher Education”, Archival Issues 19(1), 19–29. doi: https://doi.org//archivalissues.10629