Evidence Portal: Resources from IHP-Dearborn
UM-Dearborn Students for Peace in the Middle East march, 1991 . Courtesy of the UM-Dearborn Campus Archive.
The “Evidence Portal” serves as a growing hub for the research materials that support and expand our understanding of UM-Dearborn campus history and life. Here, you can explore survey data examining themes such as belonging, travel, and mobility within the campus community, alongside a range of data visualizations that help bring these findings into clearer focus.
This space is continually evolving and will eventually include additional resources, such as materials and projects from past courses and other research initiatives. We invite you to explore what is currently available and to return often as new content is added.
Research Guides
UMD R.I.P.!: A research guide for examining student activism on the Dearborn Campus, 1960s-1970s
This guide focuses on the period from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, when much of the activism at Dearborn was prompted by the Vietnam War, countercultural movements, and the Civil Rights Movement. It begins with a timeline that situates Dearborn campus and community activism. The first module covers the Michigan State Senate-led Huber Commission, which was a reaction to campus activism. The guide then examines several controversial moments in campus history, including proposals for the Dearborn campus's independence from the University of Michigan system and a protest against the cancellation of an MC-5 concert. It also covers key rights-based activism movements, including protests against the Vietnam War, editorials advocating for reproductive freedom, and anti-racist commissions and teach-ins on campus.
Survey Data
The Survey of Travel, Mobility and the Campus Community grew out of a set of questions that emerged from another legacy oral history project known as the Michigan Middle East Travelers Oral History Project (MMETOHP). The research team had questions about the impact of “regimes of im/mobility” on how people felt about their connection to the Middle East but also, for people of MENA heritage, how they felt about the Dearborn campus. The first round of the survey ran in April and May 2025 and received over 800 responses. The results of this data are going to be incorporated in peer reviewed publications, but the raw data and some key charts are included on the Dearborn Campus Memory Collective. We invite you to explore this data by clicking the button below.