by hamster | Aug 24, 2018 | IMLS Grant, Press
On August 24, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded Project STAND (STudent Activism Now Documented) $92,096 under the National Leadership Grant for Libraries Program. Established in fall 2016, Project STAND is a nationwide consortium of more than...
by hamster | May 24, 2018 | Press
Fifty years after the campus uprisings of 1968, college students are again raising their voices in activism—although as Project STAND, the online student dissent archive portal, demonstrates, those voices never went away. Project STAND (Student Activism Now...
by hamster | Apr 16, 2018 | Presentation
Project STAND: A Collaborative Initiative to Highlight Acts of Social Justice thru Archives Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, Kent State University Libraries Project STAND (STudent Activism Now Documented) is a collaborative effort starting with various Ohio universities to...
by hamster | Apr 12, 2018 | Press
By Lae’l Hughes-Watkins “In 2014 a die-in happened at Kent State University. Black students laid outside of the university’s Student Center, in chalk outlines, some bearing signs “Hands Up Don’t Shoot,” to draw attention to the national protest and discourse...
by hamster | Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
We are happy to have the following new members participate in STAND: Charla Wilson Archivist for the Black Experience Northwestern University Libraries Northwestern University John Bence University Archivist Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library...
by hamster | Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Nearly twenty colleges and universities around the country have joined to launch Project STAND (STudent Activism Now Documented), an online hub to heighten the awareness of archival and historical collections documenting student activism around the United States....
by hamster | Dec 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Survey Summary as of 12/15/2017 151 collection assessment surveys completed from the following institutions: Akron, Arizona State, Bowling Green State, Case Western Reserve, Cincinnati, Denison, Illinois, Indiana, Jackson State Margaret Walker Center, Kent State,...
by hamster | Oct 30, 2017 | Presentation
The National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web is organized by Rhizome and hosted at the New Museum, in collaboration with the University of California at Riverside Library (UCR), the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the Documenting...
by hamster | Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Project STAND Survey Summary as of 10/16/2017 (for 10/17/17 phone meeting) 124 total surveys from 16 institutions: CWRU, Bowling Green, Denison, Miami, Kent State, Oberlin, Ohio State, Akron, Illinois, Wright State, Michigan, Indiana, Arizona State, Cincinnati,...
by hamster | Sep 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Following are some preliminary findings from the surveys submitted so far for Project STAND. 98 collection assessment surveys have been submitted to date from 11 colleges and universities. The majority of the submissions are manuscript materials including...
