Charge:
- Develop the Campus Commemorative Landscape mapping project to inform and make recommendations with regard to naming plans and commemorative opportunities moving forward.
- Examine the JMU story that is told by or in various publications, offices and groups (e.g., the Student Ambassadors) about the history of campus and develop ways the story being told to our various constituents (including current and prospective students, parents, alumni, the community, etc.) can be more inclusive and complete.
Members:
- Meg Mulrooney, Department of History; Faculty Affairs and Curriculum, Chair
- Rebecca Barge, Center for Multicultural Student Services
- Ruthie Bosch, Department of Educational Foundations and Exceptionalities; Hispanic Faculty Caucus
- Monyette Martin ('93, '96), Enrollment Management
- Carole Nash (’83), School of Integrated Sciences
- Leonard Richards ('13, '14) College of Education
- Karen Risch Mott (’20M), University Advancement
- Craig Short, Administration and Finance
- Lexy Stover ('23), Annual Giving
- Grace Treml, Student Representative
Work of the Committee:
Highlighted activities
- Facilitated open dialogues with ICAD concerning campus history topics, 1909-1950s
- Hosted in person "Hidden/Untold Campus History" walking tours of Quad to groups of students, faculty, administrators, staff and alumni
- Made conference presentations to elevate JMU's stature in national campus history movement
- Analyzed campus commemorative landscape, with attention to historic Bluestone area
- Researched and made recommendations to inform renaming of Quad buildings by BoV
- Developed digital walking tour with JMU Marketing and Communications
- Researched and added supplemental content inside A Sense of Place exhibit in Wilson Hall
- History of Wilson Hall, Unconventional Women of Madison, Early Latinas at Madison College (19202 & 1930s), The Black Vanguard of the 1970s, History of the "Big Rock"
- Provided content for historic timeline at Memorial Hall Bistro in cooperation with JMU Facilities and CoE
- Co-hosted with Alumni Relations a 25th anniversary webinar with alumni members of the Contemporary Gospel Singers (1974-2024)
- Co-hosted with CoE "Knocking Down Walls" panel discussion
- Co-creating new JMU institutional history website with JMU Communications
- Supporting JMU's VA250 Commission Committee
Interested in learning more about the fascinating history of James Madison University? Here are some sources to get you started.
Crowley, Sean. James Madison University, 1908-909 to 1958-195: An Annotated Historical Timeline. (2006), prepared for JMU’s Centennial in 2008.
Dingledine, Raymond C. Madison College: The First Fifty Years, 1908-1958. Harrisonburg, VA: Madison College, 1959.
James Madison University. Images of James Madison University, 1908-1983: Blue Stone Hill to JMU. Harrisonburg: JMU, 1983.
Jones, Nancy Bondurant. Rooted on Blue Stone Hill: A History of James Madison University. Sante Fe, NM and Staunton, VA: Center for American Places in association with The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, 2004.
Robertson, Emily G. The Transformation of Madison College into James Madison University. Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary, PhD., 1991.
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