Host Institution: AUC Woodruff Library, Exhibition Hall Subject: Documenting Student Activism NOW City: Atlanta, Georgia Date: February 21, 2019 Time: 8:30 a.m to 5:00 p.m. Call For Papers!
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Press: Project STAND receives a $92,096 National Leadership Grant for Libraries Program award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
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...
Press: Project STAND in Library Journal
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...
Featured Collection: Case Western Reserve University
Case Western has submitted an eclectic collection of materials covering a wide scope of student concerns and communities. Included are materials from a diverse group of student political associations (Students for a Democratic Society, University Maoist Group...
Presentation: American Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) 2017
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...
Press: Project STAND in The Academic Archivist
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...
Announcement: New Partners Join STAND Squad
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...
Press: UC San Diego Library Joins Project STAND: Archiving Student Activism at Universities and Colleges across the Nation
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....
151 Collections Submitted
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,...
Presentation: National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
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...