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...
Awards and Press
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...
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...
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...
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....
Press: Project Stand (Student Activism Now Documented): Archiving Student Activism at Universities and Colleges
Kent, OH—Nearly twenty colleges and universities around the country have joined to launch Project STAND, an online hub to heighten the awareness of archival and historical collections documenting student activism around the United States. STAND will focus on digital...