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			<titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Community Free University Records
				<date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1971/1999">1971-1999</date></titleproper>
		  
			<titleproper type="filing" altrender="nodisplay">Community Free University Records</titleproper>
		  
			<author encodinganalog="creator">Finding aid prepared by Darcie Hart Riedner</author>
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			<publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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			<date calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="date" normal="2026">© 2026</date> 
		 
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		<creation>Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon.
			<date normal="2026" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">2026</date></creation>
		
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			<corpname encodinganalog="852$a">Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections</corpname>
		  
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		<unitid encodinganalog="099" countrycode="us" repositorycode="waps" type="collection">Cage 712</unitid>
		
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			<corpname encodinganalog="110" role="creator" rules="rda">Community Free University (Pullman, Wash.)</corpname> </origination> 
	 	<unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Community Free University Records</unittitle>
		
	 	<unitdate type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" datechar="" certainty="" normal="1971/1999">1971-1999</unitdate>
		
		<physdesc> <extent encodinganalog="300$a">1.5 Linear feet of shelf space</extent>
		  <extent encodinganalog="300$a">1 Oversize Box</extent>
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			<abstract encodinganalog="5203_">The collection consists of issues of the bulletin of
				the Community Free University, which offered free courses to residents of the
				Palouse and surrounding communities for thirty years.</abstract> 
		<langmaterial>Collection materials are in <language encodinganalog="546" langcode="eng">English</language></langmaterial>
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			<p>A Pullman (Wash.) counter-culture educational program conducted largely by students
				and faculty of Washington State University, Community Free University offered
				courses to residents of the Palouse and surrounding communities. A history written
				in 1999 by Washington State University English professor Paul Brians, an organizer
				and coordinator of the movement, explained the vision established for the Pullman
				program: "We would let anyone teach anything to anyone so long as the content wasn't
				positively illegal. The fee for a course would be a minimal one dollar. No exams, no
				requirements, and--most significant of all--no pay for the teachers. This was to be
				a strictly volunteer effort" (http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/cfu.html). An example of
				the eclectic mix of courses taught through the years can be seen in the Fall 1976
				Free University bulletin offerings which included Yoga, Sewing, Radical Agriculture,
				Balinese Massage, Food Drying, Chess and Home Brewing. Professor Brians' history
				attributed the end of Pullman's Community Free University in the spring of 1999 to a
				dwindling number of students and available instructors.</p>		
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			<p>The collection consists primarily of issues of the bulletin produced by the Community
				Free University in Pullman, Washington listing information about the program and the
				lists of courses offered to interested participants (Series 1). The collection also
				includes a file of news clippings and several miscellaneous items (Series 2).</p> 
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	 	<p>The collection is arranged in 2 series.</p> 
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	 	<p>This collection is open and available for research use.</p>
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	 	<p>Copyright restrictions may apply.</p>
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	 <prefercite encodinganalog="524" id="a18"> 
	 	<p>[Item description] </p>
	 	<p>Community Free University Records, 1971-1999 (Cage 712) </p>
	 	<p>Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.</p> 
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	 <acqinfo encodinganalog="541" id="a19"> 
	 	<p>This collection was donated to the Washington State University Libraries by Paul Brians in 2000 (MS 2000-16).</p>
	 </acqinfo> 
	 <relatedmaterial encodinganalog="5441_" id="a6"> 
	 	<p>Preliminary Guide to the Paul Brians Papers, circa 1968-2007 <extref href="https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv351867">(MS 2008-13)</extref></p>
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		<p>This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
		  catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
		  places should search the catalog using these headings.</p> 
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			<persname role="creator" encodinganalog="700" rules="rda">Brians, Paul (Paul Edward), 1942-</persname>		  
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			<corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" rules="rda">Community Free University (Pullman, Wash.) -- Records and correspondence</corpname>
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			<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Alternative education -- Washington (State) -- Pullman</subject>
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		  <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Colleges and Universities</subject> 
		  <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Civic Activism</subject>
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