Many of the CHC’s Students and Scholars take advantage of research opportunities during their time at Tri-C and CWRU. The CHC hopes to digitize as many of these projects as possible, to allow students to share their work with the public!

2019 CLE3 Rediscovering Cleveland College

Professor David Bernatowicz, CHC Faculty Lead at Tri-C, coordinated a group of faculty and Tri-C students in a project on the history of Cleveland College. Also participating as a peer mentor was CHC Student Emilee Skutt.

 

Cleveland College operated as a division of Western Reserve University from 1925-1967, and of Case Western Reserve University until its absorption into the Consolidated Colleges of CWRU in the early 1970s. It provided day and evening classes accessible to working adults as either full- or part-time students.

 

The disappearance of Cleveland College as an institution serving working adults overlapped with the rapid growth of Tri-C, which also served this population beginning in 1963. The hypothesis is that Cleveland College anticipated Tri-C. As the client for the 2019 CLE3 project on the history of Cleveland College, the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative can see ways in which the CHC is reactivating dormant strands in the institutional history of Case Western Reserve University through its partnership with Cuyahoga Community College.

 

(The group presentation runs from 4:00 to 26:30, which has been set for you on the video. You can find a link to the full-length video here.)

Fall 2018

 

 

 

 

Mackenzie Macura, who matriculated to CWRU as part of the CHC’s third cohort in 2018, completed a book arts independent study with the CHC’s Director, Kurt Koenigsberger. Mack asked his fellow Cohort 3 members for nine pieces of advice that they would give future CHC Scholars. Mack then typeset, printed, and bound 10 copies of these books, all by hand, using CWRU’s letterpress in Bellflower Hall’s New Gutenberg Annex. Click through the slideshow of Mack’s book on the right, or read a digital copy here!

 

 

 

Francesca Conti, who matriculated to CWRU as part of the CHC’s third cohort in 2018, also completed a book arts independent study with the CHC’s Director, Kurt Koenigsberger. Through a series of collages paired with selected letterpress-printed text, Francesca contextualized and critiqued contemporary rape culture in the United States. Click through the slideshow of Francesca’s book on the right, or read the digital copy here!