Voices of the Treasure Valley

FAIN: ASA-292345-23

College of Idaho (Caldwell, ID 83605-4432)
Rachel Miller (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

Collaboration between faculty, students, and community members on a one-year project to design experiential learning activities related to the diversity of place

“Voices of the Treasure Valley” will provide the region’s residents with a place to document and reflect on the past, the present, and future of their home. Guided by an Advisory Board, students at the College of Idaho will play a central role in bringing together historic preservationists, tribal historians, community activists, and other guardians of local history to consider what narratives we want to preserve and share. As part of their coursework, students will conduct oral histories and present their research at the end of the year. This project will achieve three goals that will improve humanities teaching and learning. The material created by students will document histories that might otherwise not be recorded and shared; in the process, students will build skills as humanist researchers and interpreters, and develop connections with their neighbors. In attending to the Valley’s diverse past, we hope to foster informed and empathetic conversations about its present and future.