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Our Story
Project STAND has become a community that includes archivists, memory workers, student organizers, and independent scholars dedicated to a movement that centers the voices and stories of historically marginalized student organizers. Project STAND utilizes a reparative archival praxis that requires creating inclusive spaces that celebrate the contributions of student organizers from BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. We promote the ethical documentation and celebration of the entire movement and its people. Archives. Social Justice. Analog. Digital.
What We Do
Community
Create a community for thoughtful discourse on the ethical documentation of student activism in marginalized communities
Resources
Develop and distribute a suite of educational resources to assist student organizers and archivists/memory workers in documenting activism in vulnerable communities
Discoverability
Assist in enhancing the discoverability and visibility of histories of student organizing in historically underdocumented student populations
Archival Profession
Assist in broadly impacting the archival profession by prompting a shift in collecting priorities and increase engagement with with student organizers
Project STAND Celebrates its 5th Anniversary
Project STAND just turned 5 years old in 2022. See what our members and contributers have to say about the impact of this consortia!
Project STAND 5 Year Anniversary
Our Mission & Approach
Project STAND is a radical grassroots archival consortia project between colleges and universities around the country; to create a centralized digital space highlighting analog and digital collections emphasizing student activism in marginalized communities. Project STAND aims to foster ethical documentation of contemporary and past social justice movements in underdocumented student populations. STAND advocates for collections by collaborating with educators to provide pedagogical support, create digital resources, hosts workshops and forums for students, information professionals, academics, technologists, humanists, etc. interested in building communities with student organizers and their allies, leading to sustainable relationships, and inclusive physical and digital spaces of accountability, diversity, and equity.
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 (either fully or in part)
Microgrants
Project STAND has given out over $80,000 in microgrants for digital projects to Fisk, Howard University, Tulane, South Carolina state, University of Colorado and Kentucky.
Years
Project STAND has been active for 5 years and celebrates it’s 5th year anniversary this year.
Thank You To Our Partners
