This episode is part of the COVID in the Cumberland Valley project that students in Dr. John Bloom's Oral History class at Shippensburg University have been conducting since the fall of 2021.

Three people in the Cumberland Valley who work in various aspects of education, one a high school teacher, one a college professor, and one a university administrator, discuss their challenges, both personal and professional, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, Shippensburg University Graduate Students Kathleen Foley, Sarah Hoffeditz, Richard Jones, and Flipe Lupian-Gonzalez look at how COVID affected education in the Cumberland Valley. They focus upon the issue of preparedness. What were we ready for nationally, should we have been more prepared, and how did our national lack of preparat…

Taking a detour from our oral histories of COVID in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania, this podcast looks at an oral history about a painful event in the memories of some who lived in Woodbine, New Jersey during the 1930's. Woodbine, created as a Jewish colony in the late 19th century, had a police chief who moonlighted as a bootlegger of liquo…

Shippensburg University students Nicholas Collare and Christopher Ott discuss their interviews with their narrators: Dr. Jim Freeman, a medical doctor who resides in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; and with Bethany Salzarulo, Cumberland County Director of Elections and Voter Registration. They address the difficulties that both encountered as they main…

Oral history students in this episode discuss their interviews with faculty and administrators who helped to create the Shippensburg University Disability Studies Program.

Oral history students at Shippensburg University provide a critical exploration of three online oral history projects that address the topic of disability.

A group of oral history students at Shippensburg University compare and contrast disability services at two different institutions of higher education in south central Pennsylvania.

Six classmates at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania discuss interviews that they conducted with educators who have worked to provide more equitable and accessible lives for their students.

Episode One: In the spring of 2017, students Emily Keating, Taylor Little, Taylor Mason, Tyler Newcomer and Andrea Readshaw in HIS 433 (Oral History) at Shippensburg University conducted an oral history of faculty members who had participated in the first ever strike in the history of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The three day…