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Global Campus Oral History Project

About the Collection

The Global Campus Oral History Project is a series of interviews that focuses on students with international experiences and backgrounds at Tulsa Community College. The purpose of the project is to document the varied global experiences of community college students, in order to highlight the diversity and complexity that make up a “local community.” While many students at Tulsa Community College are originally from the Tulsa geographic area, TCC has a sizeable enrollment of international students, as well as students for whom English is a second language. The Global Campus project seeks to document the stories from across this diverse group of people.

The interviews and supporting material – from the oral history recordings to the indexing and transcripts – are student-created and -developed. One of the goals of the project is to foster communicate and connection between students with a diverse set of backgrounds and to strengthen the bonds within the college, as well as between the college and the larger Tulsa community. The project thus documents not only international experiences, but it also records the work that students more broadly defined are doing to engage with this diversity. Such knowledge will advance social and cultural understandings of Tulsa in the 21st century and, by being student-driven, the project enacts the inter-cultural knowledge it also documents and preserves.   

The project is a partnership between Stephanie Youngblood’s Composition courses at Tulsa Community College’s West campus and the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the Oklahoma State University Library, with the generous participation of Briana Hefley-Shepard’s ESL students from Tulsa Community College’s Northeast Campus.

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Oklahoma Oral History Research Program
207 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-7685
liboh@okstate.edu

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