Professional, 1980-2010, undated

Series II.C., Professional, comprises materials found in the collection related to Joan Digby’s professional work as an academic, an editor, and a leader in collegiate honors programming. The series includes general materials relating to her professional life as an English professor at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University (LIU Post) that include student newspapers, ephemera, and pamphlets for campus events. The series also contains typescripts various fiction work reviewed and edited by Digby including the historical non-fiction work, Dear Helen: Wartime Letters from a Londoner to her American pen pal, (edited by Russell M. Jones and John H. Swanson), which she reviewed for University of Missouri Press. Joan Digby was a longtime director of the Honors program at LIU Post, and served as president of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), whose mission is to “support and enhance “the community of educational institutions, professionals, and students who participate in collegiate honors education around the world.” The series includes several NCHC reports and ephemeral items, but also contains an extensive typescript with edits for Partners in the Parks: Field Guide to an Experiential Program in the National Parks, a NCHC monograph that Digby edited. The publication provides details of the organization’s commitment to educating and engaging students through hands-on learning in the stewardship of National Parks.