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- Title:
- Christine Connerly interview
- Interviewee:
- Connerly, Christine
- Interviewer:
- Hua, Joan, 1989-
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-30
- Role:
- Staff
- Department:
- Student Affairs
- Subjects:
- student services Arts Commission urban development place-bound students nontraditional students advising Higher Education Coordinating (HEC) Board Union Station historic preservation Theater District Tacoma Dome public art Dale Chihuly Japanese Language School Tacoma Method diversity Japanese American incarceration Transcontinental Railroad
- Biography:
- Christine Connerly (b. 1958), formerly known as Chris Benton, is a mixed media artist and photographer living near Chico, California. A Tacoma native, Connerly worked in Student Services at University of Washington Tacoma from its beginning days until 1998. Prior to UW Tacoma, she worked in UW Admissions for three years. She later worked as the Director of Academic Assistance Programs at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and Associate Director of the Student Learning Center at California State University, Chico, until she retired in 2018. She attended K-12 schools in Tacoma, is a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, and earned her BA at PLU and MA at UW.
- Description:
- Christine Connerly shares her personal perspective on the establishment, siting, and growth of UW Tacoma as a Tacoma native who has had a career in students affairs and academic assistance. She discusses the need to create public education opportunities. She weaves in her personal background as the daughter of teachers, sharing her father's experience changing careers and returning to school as a commuter student. She gives the context of Tacoma's contentious history with different populations and neighborhoods. Remembering her own involvement in the Arts Commision, she also shares her knowledge of public art and the role it has played in the transformation and architecture of downtown Tacoma.
- Location:
- United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
- Type:
- Sound; Text; StillImage
- Format:
- cpd
- Preferred Citation:
- University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Tacoma Library, UWTOH202011