Letter to the Editor: University history will not be lost

Broadcast recorded on March 25, 2025 – ARTEM Editorial Media Library Universities have not always existed. If they are there, it is because we have chosen to create spaces dedicated to the transmission and production of knowledge. Not just learning places, but institutions where we could seek, doubt, confront ideas, produce knowledge and test them for real. And the modern university was built around a central principle, necessary for its mission…

Letter to the Editor: University history will not be lost

The mission of the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) in the University Libraries is to collect, preserve and share original materials related to four primary collecting areas — one of those areas is the University Archives.  The purpose of the University Archives is to document and preserve the history of App State. Like other universities in North Carolina, App State is required by state law to retain, preserve and make accessible hist…