For alma mater: Publishing institutional histories of higher education and university presses: Purposes, genre and scholarly value.

Institutional histories present a challenge for university presses who may feel pressurized to publish non-scholarly content to please their institution. In June 2020, emails were sent to randomly selected university press directors and university heads of history departments requesting their general impressions and observations concerning publishing institutional histories. Email 15 June 2020</td></tr><tr><td>"University relations fit in because, well, the university fundraisers like to give gifts to donors, and a history of the university they support financially is a nice gift to give. We experienced this pressure in...., the University's Bicentennial and had to set up a strategy to ensure that we did not undermine the Press's reputation while at the same time publishing works that would make University leadership happy and extend awareness of our role in the local community. [Extracted from the article]