Conclusion

While the University of Scranton had racist practices and racially insensitive occurrences, the University of Scranton has continually tried to end racially insensitive incidents throughout its history. There are still issues and incidents that arise at times, however, the University of Scranton is not oblivious to it and is slowly trying to right the wrongs of the past in order to ensure a safer and more welcoming future. Through different actions and plans, the campus community desired to open its arms for all kinds of minorities, especially people of color. The University of Scranton is keeping the radically insensitive history of the University available to students and faculty. The University of Scranton still has a ways to go to fully right its past wrongs. This project is just one step.

About

Our group consists of four history majors that attend the University of Scranton. This project was commissioned by Professor Levy's History 190 course in the Fall of 2021.

Thomas Lynn is a Junior History Major. He has lived near Scranton his entire life. He has worked with the community before, in volunteering, and with Careerlink before.
Charles Stewart is a first-year History major and a graduate from Scranton High-School, deciding to proudly further his education at the University of Scranton.
Brendan Zyla is a first-year history major.
Maria Stephen is a first-year double major in History & Political Science with a minor in Philosophy and a legal studies concentration. She is part of the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program. She is very active in the student body as she is a member of the student government as well as various clubs on campus. She aspires to become a lawyer and continue serving the community in different ways.

Methodology

The first step in our methodology was to aquire primary sources from the University of Scranton Digital Collections website. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which is used on the website is a process that indentifies printed characters but can sometimes be inaccurate. Due to this inaccuracy, the University of Scranton Digital Collections website was not as useful of a source as we would have hoped for (although a few of our sources were obtained from there).

The next step in our methodology was to visit the physical University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library Archive. There, with the help of Professor Knies, we aquired the majority of our primary sources. Unfortunately, some of the sources that have not been digitized yet cannot be put on this website because we do not have permission.

To find secondary sources to aid us in this project we primarily used Google Scholar.

The tool that we are using to demonstrate demographic data at the University of Scranton is storyline.js. Storyline.js is a tool that allows us to easily organise and portray demographic data and makes data easier to view and interpret. To see an example of storyline.js, see our demographics page.

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Racial Exclusion

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