Ithaca College Oral History Project
A large number of faculty have recently retired from the College, taking with them a huge amount of our corporate memory. Collaborating with the History Department, we began an oral history project during the summer of 2006 interviewing retired faculty about their relationship with the College with a focus on the process of teaching and learning and the growth of the College as a whole.
The project consisted of two students selecting interviewees, conducting background research on the interviewees and their era using primary documents, developing questions tailored to each interviewee's situation, conducting interviews, developing indexing for completed interviews and creating one full transcript from an interview of their choice. The recordings are digital and will be retained and migrated for possible future transcriptions. The summer 2006 project resulted in 38 completed interviews.
We have begun to make the audio portions of the interviews available on the web. Some of the downloads are substantial; we currently working on streamlining the mp3s.
