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I was wondering what exactly do universities do with their old undergraduate students thesis? I thought of this because I was reading some old articles about obama unreleased undergrad thesis and it kind of made me wonder whether his old university would even have it.
President Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York City. Send a polite note to the head librarian at Columbia and ask your question, perhaps explaining why you need a copy. You might get a response, you might not. My guess is that if you are a legitimate scholar, you will, but if you're yet another political crank, you won't. You could also try the Political Science Department at Columbia.
John F. Kennedy (President of the United States) and Jack Bogle (founder of Vanguard) are other examples of undergrads who wrote famous theses . . .
They are published as well. If you know the title you can (maybe) get a copy from a liberary. Usually they are very boring and just full of whatever data they were studying with extended footnotes.
Graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) are definitely preserved (in the library at least). Decades ago they were also microfilmed and available from a central institution for a fee.
I have no experience with institutions with an "undergraduate" thesis. If they are really just course papers, I suspect they eventually get shredded.
> I was reading some old articles about obama unreleased undergrad thesis and it kind of made me wonder whether his old university would even have it.
If it's there it's cataloged, and usually catalogs are open-access.
> Send a polite note to the head librarian at Columbia and ask your question, perhaps explaining why you need a copy. You might get a response, you might not. My guess is that if you are a legitimate scholar, you will,
If you are a legitimate scholar then you have access to other libraries by interlibrary loan. University libraries are not in the habit of providing free copies.
> Send a polite note to the head librarian at Columbia and ask your question, perhaps explaining why you need a copy. You might get a response, you might not. My guess is that if you are a legitimate scholar, you will,
If you are a legitimate scholar then you have access to other libraries by interlibrary loan. University libraries are not in the habit of providing free copies.
What I meant, of course, was an email answering the OPs question, not a free copy of anything.
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