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The scotsinbritishcolumbia blog published an interesting post on November 14, 2018 by Georgia Twiss, " A Tale of Two Simon Frasers: The Invented and Contested Scottish Tradition of SFU ."  Twiss argues that "...most people assume the university’s name and Scottishness honour Simon Fraser, the nineteenth-century imperial explorer and fur trade...but in truth has little to do with Simon Fraser the Explorer at all." Simon Fraser University was founded in 1965 and serves over 30,000 students through campuses in British Columbia's largest municipalities of Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey.  Twiss comments that the "...naming of SFU was a fluke by way of an acronymic oversight. The original name, ‘Fraser University’, was chosen to reflect the region from where its student body would largely derive. However, upon the realization that the school would be colloquially referred to as “F.U,” the prefix “Simon” was added, with no direct statement as to whom it was meant...

100 years of articles from  The Indiana Magazine of History are available online an no charge.  The magazine is one of the nation's oldest historical journals and issues from 1905-2015 are now easily accessible.  Researchers can browse individual issues or search all the issues by topic.  The respective articles are then available for viewing online or they can be downloaded as .pdf files. A sample of articles related to college history follows with links to the corresponding .pdf file: Volume 11, Issue 1, March 1915; " The Academies of Indiana " author: John Hardin Thomas. Volume 47, Issue 3, September 1951; " A College Freshman in 1858 " author:  Lawrence Wheeler. Volume 53, Issue 1, March 1957; " Smithson College Circular, 1871 " editor: Donald F. Carmony. Volume 56, Issue 2, June 1960; " The Indiana Central Medical College,1849-1852 " author: George B. Manhart. Volume 90, Issue 1, March 1994; "' The Diploma Pedler ': Dr. Jo...

Jenny Barker-Devine, associate professor of history, and students in her digital history class are featured by Illinois College in " Students bring new app to Jacksonville community ."  The post indicates that the class worked with the Clio app and website to identify key historical sites on the campus and in the community of Jacksonville, IL where the Illinois College is located. You can enter " Jacksonville, IL " in the  Clio  search window to bring up four different tours:   Downtown Jacksonville Illinios This is a short walking tour made possible by the work of students at Illinois College.   Walldog Murals During the summer of 2006, Jacksonville Main Street hosted a group of professional sign painters called Letterheads to conceive and execute heritage-based art projects throughout Jacksonville's historic central business district. The result was...   Looking For Lincoln: Jacksonville The companion tour for "Looking for Lincoln's" wayside ...

The U.S. Bureau of Education organized an extensive study of black colleges and universities that is available at no charge as a .pdf, " Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities, Bulletin 1928, No. 7 ," on the ERIC website.   Dr. Arthur J. Klen, chief of the Division of Higher Education, served as the director for the survey with cooperation of seventy-nine higher education institutions, nineteen state departments, and several church foundations or educational boards.  Data gathering included visits to the institutions and the report presents a detailed picture of life on the campuses through text and tables.  The survey certainly serves as an authoritative source of information on black higher education in the 1920s.