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AFC’s New Story Map and Research Guide for Higher Education

Posted by: Michelle Stefano

The American Folklife Center is happy to present our newest research guide, American Folklife Center’s Higher Education Resources, and story map, The American Folklife Center Online, which are both dedicated to assisting instructors in higher education in exploring our collections and related materials, inspiring ways in which they can be integrated into teaching. Last fall, we announced plans for bolstering the AFC’s outreach to higher education, making our resources more accessible to the college and university community. We administered a survey, whose results revealed what our friends in higher education felt they needed from us. In hopes to answer those needs, we present this research guide and Story Map...we hope you enjoy these new AFC resources!

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Readers in Higher Education: Please Take AFC’s Survey!

Posted by: Stephen Winick

Calling all college and university educators: we want to help you, and need to know what you need! Please take our survey here! To be more precise about our survey, it is aimed at professors, instructors, librarians, and practitioners who are teaching classes in folklore, ethnomusicology, American studies, area studies, and allied fields. We want …

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AFC Plans to Enhance Resources for Higher Education

Posted by: Stephen Winick

  Attention college and university teachers and students! The American Folklife Center is planning to enhance and expand its outreach to higher education, making our resources more accessible than ever before to the college and university community. This is especially important as higher education adapts to increased demand for remote and online teaching brought about by …