Featured Collection
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The “Featured Collections” page highlights participating institutions’ collections. Each month we put the focus on one institution, where we display links to all of their collections that are related to student activism and social justice. These collections are either full, partial, or both.
What's Happening Now
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New Blueprint Podcast Episode featuring Manuel Mendez, Chair DC Afrolatino Caucus
Featured Resource
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Archiving Student Activism Toolkit:
Created by Annalise Berdini, Rich Bernier, Valencia Johnson, Maggie McNeely, and Lydia Tang on behalf of Project STAND, November 2019.
Collections Data
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New Project STAND Resource (Zine): Preserving the Fullness of Social Movements and Activists
We are so excited to share the exceptional work of our recent Project STAND fellows, who reimagined the traditional structure for collection development policies that currently fail to archive the fullness of a social movement and its activists in their current iteration within conventional academia spaces, specifically in BIPOC/ historically underrepresented communities that tend to focus primarily on trauma and not the full scope of multiple textures of a movement, the ebb and flow, the joy, pain, sunshine, laughter and rain (nod to Frankie Beverley and Maze). They were also asked to provide a rationale for new approaches/philosophies that move beyond Westernized or colonial approaches to archiving and preservation and discuss a reparative approach or another transformative lens. Additionally, they had to envision a dialogue explaining to a memory worker/archivist the materiality of archiving social movements in Black Indigenous and other marginalized communities and the student activists/allies connected to those communities. The fellows had to decide what they perceived as critical elements in telling richer histories— fuller stories! The one-week residency of phenomenally dope speakers and fellowshipping helped the community produce a transformative document. While there were moments of friction and tension, everyone came back together, stronger to produce something with a soul, heartfelt, accessible, meaningful, funny, and practical. The werk is not easy, but here is our gift to our community of supporters, believers, memory workers, archivists, neighbors, agitators, innovators, disruptors, fans, all things in between. Let this guide you in 2024 and beyond! For more information about the fellows and the residency click here! Thanks again to our fellows (below) and special thanks to Bernadette Birzer, Archivist for Collection Management and Digital Preservation at Tulane University, for the template design and creating the tutorial for our zine!
ZINE CREATORS
Iris Afantchao
Hannah McGurk
Mia Sturdivant
Wanda Hernandez
Rebecca Wells
Jerrold Mobley
Eleena Ghosh
Kristy Li Puma
Featured Collection
A Home Away From Home: The George A. Jackson Black Cultural Center, Exhibition, Special Collections, and University Archives, Iowa State University
Grants
In 2018 Project STAND received a $92,000 grant from IMLS. In 2021 Project STAND received a $750,000 grant from The Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Collection Assessments
Collections assessments received from 59 institutions.
Linear Feet
Approximately 5051 linear feet of archival material.
Institutions
Project STAND has a total membership of 89 institutions and contributors across the country
Activism Topics
There are a total of 12 student activism topics that include African American/Civil Rights, Vietnam/Anti-War, Women’s Rights, LGBTQ+, Asian American, and Latinx
Born Digital/Digitized
There are 238 collections that are born digital/digitized
Microgrants
Project STAND has given out more than $80,000 of microgrants for digitization projects at Howard, FISK, South Carolina State, Tulane, University of Colorado and Kentucky.
Years
Project STAND is now 5 years old!
Project STAND News
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Project STAND Next General General Meeting 01/25/2024
Resources for Archivists
- Archiving Student Activisim Toolkit
- Documenting Student Activisim Without Harm
- Glossary of Studnet Activism
- Project STAND CVB