Abstract The Somalia Project was a collaboration contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (AID) between Eastern Michigan University and Somalia. EMU and Somalia entered into an agreement to sponsor faculty and student exchange programs in an effort to create teaching training and teacher education programs in Somalia. The program was cut short due to Somalia experiencing government upheaval in July of 1970. The Somalia Project collection contains administrative files and...

Abstract The Roosevelt School records are primarily comprised of administrative files, grade reports, news clippings, publications, scrapbooks, and yearbooks. Also included are library records, and student projects. Founded as a laboratory school in 1900 on the campus of the Michigan State Normal College (known today as Eastern Michigan University), materials in the collection were generated by the Roosevelt School faculty, staff and students. The school originally...

Abstract The Lincoln Consolidated School was founded in the early 1920s. Eastern Michigan University played a large role in helping to combine ten rural school districts, most of them one room school houses, into one large school district. This had only been done once before in Washington State. The Lincoln Consolidated School helped to blaze a trail for all other school districts both in Michigan and around the United States that were hoping to accomplish a similar...