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2004 Review Binders

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The 2004 Review is a comprehensive two-volume overview of the IA program. These binders compile documents from IA's conferences, projects, correspondence, participation lists and records, staff and faculty accomplishments, awards, publications, websites, and press material. As a primarily grant funded initiative, IA measured its accomplishments by the success of its projects. This Review was likely used as a reference source for the IA staff, as documentation of partnerships, and as evidence of accomplishments to show potential participants and funders. The contents of the review are as follows. Volume 1: Self Study, History, Consortium, Responses to the Work of IA, Governance, Work of Faculty, Work of Colleges and Universities; Volume 2: Work of Language, IA at the University of Michigan, Funding, Staff, and Public Scholarship

Though some of the binders' contents is duplicated in the two auxiliary boxes (some of the early newsletters for example), the binder's order and integrity have been maintained to provide a snapshot of how the project functioned and how it viewed itself in 2004. Of particular interest is the "Imagining Michigan Conferences" section. It was an annual series of conferences between 2000 and 2004 that used the "Imagining Your State Tool Kit" to identify ways to bring universities and community institutions within Michigan together.

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Imagining America records, 1999-2007

3 linear feet — 317 MB (online)

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Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges and universities that encourage sustainable campus-community partnerships in the arts, humanities, and design. From 2000 to 2007 Imagining America was hosted by the University of Michigan and directed by professor Julie Ellison. Imagining America fostered programs designed to enrich the public life of communities. The program sponsored a website, newsletter and annual national and state conferences and various scholarly and creative works.

The records of Imagining America (IA) were received in two accessions, in 2004 and 2007. In 2004, IA donated the "2004 Review" binders, which reviews the IA's history and accomplishments up to that point. In 2007, just before IA moved to its new host University of Syracuse, the IA donated a number of records that were organized into the following eight series: Mission, Overview and Website; Governance; History; Grants; Projects; Membership and Recruitment; Publications; and National Conferences.

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Mission, Overview and Website

The Mission, Overview and Website files consist of an undated "Mission and Program Overview" document and a print-out of IA website screen shots from June 2007 prepared by their webmaster Chris Defay. The website print-out is not a full-text document of the site but a visual representation of the site's content including screen shots of main pages and PDF documents linked from the site. A more comprehensive record of the IA website can be found at the internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ia.umich.edu

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Governance

The Governance records consist of National Advisory Board documents, such as meeting notes (2000-2002), correspondence (2000-2004), minutes (2000-2006), and an agenda from a 2005 transition meeting. Though there is a copy of the by-laws in the 2004 Review, the by-laws folder has drafts and amendments from 2003 to 2006. The Director's reports consist of both executive summaries and the full texts of annual reports from 2001-2006.