Group aims to preserve diverse campus histories

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is piloting a program with historically black colleges and universities to diversify the field of preservation while restoring historic sites across the country. According to Monica Rhodes, associate director of the National Trust’s Hands-On Preservation Experience (HOPE) Crew, presently only 8% of the roughly 87,000 listings on the National Register of Historic Places represent the stories of women and people of color she said.