Securing the Future: Utica’s Contribution to Southern Black Education

FAIN: ZED-283441-22

Hinds Community College (Raymond, MS 39154-9799)
Dan Fuller (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

The digitization of archival materials to be used in new bioethics courses that incorporate experiential learning opportunities.

The "Securing the Future: Utica’s Contribution to Southern Black Education" project seeks to strengthen the capacity of an HBCU community college to provide humanities programming in rural Mississippi. As the home of the former Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, now the Utica Campus of Hinds Community College, the town of Utica and the small farms surrounding it, have long had a special relationship with its HBCU, as the only center for higher learning in its rural location. We are proposing activities in four related areas: the creation of a new Philosophy/Bioethics course with a special emphasis on the COVID-19 response; a Symposium on the Little Tuskegees; Archives digitization and processing of collections in the Utica Institute Archives; and the development of an exhibit at the Utica Institute Museum focusing on the history of the Utica Farmers' Conferences. Together, these projects will provide students, faculty, and our wider community with important humanities programming.