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EUI then EOTU, a campus-wide initiative that sponsors undergraduate research
on the university and archives it in web-accessible format, began as a group
of about twenty students, staff, and faculty who met eighteen times during the
2002-03 academic year under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Studies.
This working group’s goal was to think about how to conduct ethnographic
research on universities and how, in turn, to create a lasting web-based repository
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In the midst of the EUI pilot phase, as EUI’s
coordinators were still learning how to guide student research and manage
the technical details of the Inquiry Page, Judith Ramaley, Assistant
Director of the National Science Foundation (Education and Human Resources
Directorate), visited The U of I. Dr. Ramaley helped the coordinators
realize that EUI was well-suited to the task of documenting innovative
programs on campus, and the innovative program that had most intrigued
her during her campus visit was none other than the Brown v. Board
of Education Jubilee Commemoration. Her insight seeded EBC: soon
after, EUI was contracted to document the Brown Commemoration.
(Chapter 3) |
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