Abstract
This volume updates and reframes the history of the University of La Verne in a more inclusive voice, exploring the significance of ULV's heritage while documenting how the predominantly white college evolved into a minority-serving university. The introduction thoughtfully explores the meanings of history and heritage in writing about the institution, and the first chapter shows how Church of the Brethren values persisted at the school despite the decline in numbers of church members while it traces the development of the Hispanic Serving Institution. The second essay examines the university's vast collection of indigenous stone tools to speculate on the region's Native American presence. Paper three probes the evolving worldview of the college's iconic Peace Studies historian, Gladdys Muir, and it is followed by an insightful look at the Church of the Brethren's relationship with local indigenous peoples. Chapter 5 examines the perplexing fact that many students from the pacifist institution fought in both World Wars while others went into alternative service, and the next-to-final essay traces the demographic and cultural transformation of the college into an Hispanic Serving Institution. The seventh chapter allows "Voices of Community" to express personal feelings about the current state and future direction of ULV. Four original artworks commissioned for the project enhance the text as do numerous historical photographs, charts, and tables in color.