On April 3, 2020 Project STAND received the New England Archivists (NEA) Advocacy Award during the NEA's annual business meeting. Karen Adler Abramson, Director of Archives for the JFK Presidential Library and Museum and Immediate Past President and Chair, Awards...
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SAA Council Resolution Honoring Project STAND
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) honored Project STAND and founders Lae’l Hughes-Watkins and Tamar Chute with a 2019 SAA Council Resolution for focusing on the needs and efforts of academic archives in documenting marginalized student activism and advocating...
First Symposium Announced!!
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!
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...
Featured Collection: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has shared multiple, rich collections with Project Stand which include university documents, photographs, publications, ephemera, and tweets on a myriad of student interests. These collections include: Black Student...
Featured Collection: Princeton University
Princeton University has provided Project Stand with materials from two very unique and innovative archival projects related to student activism. These include The First One Hundred Days Collection, a collection of protest materials from members of the Princeton...
Featured Collection: Connecticut College
Connecticut College has contributed materials from 2 collections to Project Stand, including the Campus Activism Collection, documenting 3 decades of student protest at CC through photographs, news clippings, reports and correspondence, and also the Unity House...
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...