THE PROGRAM

Cultural Crossroads: Migration and Community Transformation is a COPLAC digital history project which set out to investigate and identify specific migration within local communities in an effort to rescue the stories all too often forgotten local history.  This website was created as a part of Cultural Crossroads, a COPLACDigital course generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

COPLAC (the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges) is an independent consortium comprised of 30 public liberal arts colleges and universities across North America. COPLAC is headquartered at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  Dr. Alvis Dunn of the University of North Carolina, Asheville and Dr. Leland Turner of Midwestern State University are the lead facilitators of this project consisting of students representatives from seven different undergraduate institutions throughout the eastern half of the United States.  Each set representatives is charged with creating and publishing a digital, web-based project showcasing the unique migration patterns of their community.

To learn more about COPLACDigital, click here.

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