Guide to the Common Ground Collection
RG 9.5.4
Common Ground Collection, Guide to the
Finding aid prepared by Sarah Pinard
Sarah Lawrence College Archives
Sarah Lawrence College Archives
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY, 10708
914-395-2480
archives@sarahlawrence.edu
2008
Entered in Archivists' Toolkit by Sarah Pinard
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit
2013-10-28T15:46-0400
English
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Common Ground Collection
RG 9.5.4
Sarah Lawrence College Archives
2
1
3
3.0 linear feet
2 record cartons, 1 flat box
undated, 1969-present
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Common Ground.
Acquisition note
This collection was donated by Aja Mujinga Sherrard '11, chair of Common Ground, in October 2008.
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open to researchers. Restricted material is marked as such in the finding aid and on the folder itself. See archivist for further assistance with restricted folders.
Historical note
Common Ground is a space used by students of color groups on campus. Located on the second floor of Bates, Common Ground functions as a place to hold events and meetings, as a lounge area, and a central location for resources that relate to the student of color groups that utilize the space. These groups include APICAD, Harambe, Unidad, Women of Color and others. The space currently known as Common Ground was not always located in Bates. Prior to its current location in the Student Space, a Students of Color Space existed in the basement of Westlands. The creation of a space for students of color dates to the Westlands sit-in of 1989. During the March 1989 Westlands sit-in by the student group Concerned Students of Color (CSOC) a series of demands were made that included the creation of a space for people of color on campus. The CSOC agenda defined this space as a place that would be a “non-residential center for political and social activity for students of color. It will be a place where growth, nurturing, assertion, and sharing of our ethnic identities will take place.” Four days after the agenda was put forth a panel composed of faculty and administration offered a document which stated that a “lounge space for students of color” would be an important part of forthcoming construction on campus. Approximately five years later, during the 1994-1995 academic year, Marilyn Katz noted in her Dean of Studies Report to the President that although students of color groups, including Asian Student Union, Harambe, and Unidad, had requested a space for a number of years, no such place had been provided. In the spring of 1995 the issue was discussed during a meeting of the Student Senate. It was decided by General Committee that there was a space in the basement of Westlands that could be used by these student groups on a trial basis. The first documentation of this space in the Student Handbook can be found in 2002-2003. The Students of Color Space “serves as a meeting room, gathering area and resource room for HARAMBE, APICAD, UNIDAD and other students of color organizations. The space is also used for speakers, discussions, movie nights and other activities. Mostly, however, it serves as an inviting, comfortable area for all students to relax, hang out and converse with one another.” This space was called Common Ground by students.
Common Ground moved to its current location in the Bates Center for Student Life during the 2004-2005 academic year after the remodeling of the student space was completed.
See also
Archived Digital Files and the Photograph Collection for images and movies of 2005-2006 Common Ground events including the Ethnic Studies Campaign, Cultural Misappropriation, and the Ishle Yi Park Event; Guide to the APICAD Collection for additional material on the student group APICAD; the Student Life Collection for additional student group publications; Protest and Activism on Campus Collection for further information about the Ethnic Studies Campaign, Police Brutality, and the Westlands Sit-In of 1969. The Protest and Activism Collection also contains materials about the activities of the groups Concerned Students of Color and Harambe. See also the Alice Stone Ilchman Papers for further information on CSOC, Harambe, and the 1989 Westlands Sit-In including correspondence from the President’s Office.
Series description
Series I. Administrative Sub-series A. APICAD
Series I. Administrative Sub-series B. Common Ground
Series I. Administrative Sub-series C. Concerned Students of Color
Series I. Administrative Sub-series D. Harambe
Series I. Administrative Sub-series E. QPOC
Series I. Administrative Sub-series F. Students of Color
Series I. Administrative Sub-series G. Unidad
Series I. Administrative Sub-series H. Women of Color
Series II. Research Files
系列III。Subjects Sub-series A. Events
系列III。Subjects Sub-series B. General
系列III。Subjects Sub-series C. Publications Sub-series I. External
系列III。Subjects Sub-series C. PublicationsSub-series II. Student
rela系列即行政由材料ting to the administration of the student groups APICAD, Concerned Students of Color, Harambe, Students of Color, Unidad, Women of Color, and the student space Common Ground. These sub-series may contain meeting agendas and notes, budget information, correspondence regarding event planning, mission statements, documents about meeting space, programming resources, and flyers and posters announcing events sponsored by these groups. The records of these four sub-series: Concerned Students of Color, Students of Color, Harambe, and Common Ground provide brief but informative documentation about the development of the Common Ground student space. The material in Sub-series B. Common Ground is more thorough than in other sub-series. This is partly due to the records kept by space managers during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Series I is divided into seven sub-series: Sub-series A. APICAD; Sub-series B. Common Ground; Sub-series C. Concerned Students of Color; Sub-series D. Harambe; Sub-series E. QPOC; Sub-series F. Students of Color; Sub-series G. Unidad; Sub-series H. Women of Color.
Series II. Research Files consists of subject files created and maintained by Common Ground. The majority of this material refers to off-campus events or topics such as housing, political prisoners, labor, immigration, international political sanctions, and police brutality. The research files provide documentation of the interests of student groups on campus.
系列III。主题包括一般主题files and records collected by Common Ground. This includes diversity resources, speakers, local organizations, and material about events on-campus that the student groups who use Common Ground were involved with. Also included in this series is information about LGBTQ, Solidarity Club, Gay Men of African Descent, Black Students Association, the Black Radical Congress, and the Black Alumnae/i Association. The material in these files is partial and does not reflect administrative activity. This series also contains flyers and posters that were used to publicize on and off-campus events. These items are housed with the oversized material. Sub-series C. Publications contains both student produced literature, including The Ninja, a publication of APICAD, and Common Ground Magazine, a publication of Common Ground, as well as external publications. External publications collected by student groups are arranged alphabetically in folders titled with the student group’s name. All other external publications are arranged alphabetically by title in a folder titled General.
Series III is divided into three sub-series: Sub-series A. Events; Sub-series B. General; Sub-series C. Publications. Sub-series C is further divided into two sub-series: Sub-series I. External Publications; and Sub-series II. Student Publications.
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains records and materials pertaining to the student space Common Ground. The collection also includes material concerning student groups that use Common Ground space. These groups are APICAD, Harambe, Unidad, Women of Color, and others. Records documenting the history of the creation of Common Ground, which include the student group Concerned Students of Color may also be found in this collection. Material pertaining to these groups is mainly administrative. Certain groups’ records, such as Common Ground, Harambe, and Students of Color, are more comprehensive than others.
In addition to administrative records this collection includes a series of research files. The records in this series were compiled as subject files by Common Ground before transfer to the archives and have been left in their original order.
Lastly, this collection includes material relating to events and programming on and off-campus, resources for student groups, information about regional and national organizations of interest to student groups, as well as student publications and external publications collected by the student groups represented in this collection.
Cataloging status
Uploaded to OCLC in October 2012 OCLC # 861190950.
Gay Men of African Descent (Organization).
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Asian Pacific Islander Coalition for Action and Diversity.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Asian Student Union.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Black Students Association.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Concerned Students of Color.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Harambee.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Queer People of Color.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Students of Color.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。Unidad.
萨拉劳伦斯学院。女士们n of Color Affinity Group.
African American History Month
Annual reports
Budgets
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Minority college students
Minutes
Photographs
Posters
Race relations
Sarah Lawrence College
Student movements
Series I. Administrative
Sub-series A. APICAD
Agendas and Minutes
2011
议程和分钟,2011年
Correspondence
1
undated, 1997, 2011-2012
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Correspondence, 2011-2012
Publicity
3
undated, 1996-1997, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2013
宣传,2013
Social Media
2007-2008
Social Media, 2007-2008
Sub-series B. Common Ground
Agendas and Minutes
1
2006-2007
Budget
1
2000-2002, 2004-2007
Correspondence
1
undated, 1998, 2006-2007, 2011-2013
Correspondence, 2011-2013
Library
1
undated, 2006-2007
Mission Statement
1
2006-2007
Programming
1
undated, 2007-2008, 2013
Publicity
3
undated, 2006-2008, 2011
Publicity, 2011
Space
1
undated, 2006, 2011, 2013
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Space, 2011, 2013
Space Manager
1
2006-2007, 2012
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Space Manager, 2012
Student Information
1
2006-2007
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Sub-series C. Concerned Students of Color
Agendas and Minutes
1
1991, 1993-1994
Correspondence
1
1989, 1994
Mission Statement
1
1989
News Clippings
1
1991
Publicity
1
1989
Sub-series D. Harambe
Agendas and Minutes
1
undated, 1997, 2000, 2005-2006
Budget
1
1996, 1999, 2001
Correspondence
1
1989, 1996, 1999, 2002
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Harambee Summit
1
2006
Mission Statement
1
undated, 1994-1996
Publicity
1
3
undated, 1991, 1996, 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2011
Publicity, 2011
Reports
1
2001
Student Information
1
undated, 1995
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Sub-series E. QPOC
Agendas and Minutes
2012
Agendas and Minutes, 2012
Sub-series F. Students of Color
Community Resources
1
undated, 1997-1998
Correspondence
1
1999
Diversity Issues
1
1990-1995, 1997-2001
Internships and Volunteering
1
undated, 1991-1995
Library
1
1999
Programming
1
undated, 1995-1998
Publicity
1
1998, 2002
Space
1
1994-1999, 2001
"Student of Color Activism and Selected Activities 1989-1998"
1
1998
Sub-series G. Unidad
Agendas and Minutes
2011-2013
议程和分钟,2011年-2013
Correspondence
1
undated, 1992, 1996, 1998-2000, 2012-2013
Correspondence, 2012-2013
Programming
1
undated, 1996, 1998-1999
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Publicity
1
3
undated, 1996-1998, 2000, 2007-2008, 2011-2012
Publicity, 2011-2012
Social Media
2012
Social Media, 2012
Student Information
1
1995-1997, 1999-2000
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
White Privilege Meeting
1
2012
Sub-series H. Women of Color (WoCo)
General
1
undated
Agendas and Minutes
2012
Agendas and Minutes, 2012
Publicity
1
2006, 2011-2012
Publicity, 2011-2012
The Vagina Monologues
1
2011
Series II. Research Files
Films - American Indian
1
1993
Films - Black and African American
1
1994-1996, 1998
Films - International
1
1993-1994
Films - Latino
1
1994, 1996-1997, 2006
Films - Women
1
3
1992-1993, 2006
Financial Aid and Tuition
1
1996-1999
Housing
1
undated
Immigration
1
undated, 1992-1995
Iraqi Sanctions
1
1998
Jena 6
1
2007
Labor
1
undated, 1997
Labor - Workfare Workers Organize
1
undated
Native American Issues
1
1997
Police Brutality
1
undated, 1997-1998
See also
Protest and Activism Collection
Political Prisoners - General
1
undated, 1992, 1997-1998
Political Prisoners - MOVE
1
undated, 1997-1998
Political Prisoners - Mumia Abu Jamal
1
undated, 1995-1997
Political Prisoners - Puerto Rican
1
undated, 1994, 1997-1998
Politics
1
1997
系列III。Subjects
Sub-series A. Events
Black History Month
1
3
undated, 1990-1991, 1997-1998, 2001-2002
Block Party
1
1996
C3 Conference Caffeine Community
2011-2013
C3 Conference Caffeine Community, 2011-2013
Color Struck
1
2010
Common Ground Graduation Dinner
2012
Common Ground Graduation Dinner, 2012
Dances
2012
Dances, 2012
Ethnic Studies Campaign
1
2004-2005
See also
Common Ground Collection - Ethnic Studies Campaign; Protest and Activism Collection
Separated Materials note
Photographs are located in the Photograph Collection
Ethnic Studies Direct Action
2004
Separated Materials note
Photographs are located in the Photograph Collection
Ethnic Studies Direct Action, 2004
Event List
2013
Event List, 2013
Faculty Student Staff of Color and Allies Luncheon
2009-2013
Faculty Student Staff of Color and Allies Luncheon, 2009-2013
Fall Collective
1
1998, 2000
See also
Dean of Studies Records
Film Viewings
2011-2013
Film Viewings, 2011-2013
Finding Common Ground
2012
Finding Common Ground, 2012
FLIK Appreciation Dinner
1
1996-1999, 2006-2007
Hunger Strike
1
1994
Lectures
2011-2012
Lectures, 2011-2012
Million Woman March
1
1997
Off Campus
1
1992-1997, 2008, 2012-2013
Off Campus, 2008, 2012-2013
Poetry
2012
Poetry, 2012
Potluck Meals
2011-2012
Potluck Meals, 2011-2012
Remembering the 1989 Westlands Sit In
2009
Remembering the 1989 Westlands Sit In, 2009
Sit-In
1
1989-1990
Solidarity Retreat
1
2001
Spring Collective
2012
Spring Collective, 2012
Town Hall Meetings
2011-2013
Town Hall Meetings, 2011-2013
女士们n's History Conference
1
2008, 2012
女士们n's History Conference, 2012
Worker's Appreciation Dinner
2012-2013
Worker's Appreciation Dinner, 2012-2013
Sub-series B. General
Academic Resources (published and unpublished)
1
undated, 1996, 1998, 2007-2008
Activism at other Colleges
1
undated, 1990, 1998
Black Alumnae/i Association
1
1994-1995
Black People United
1
1999
RESTRICTED
Contains restricted information
Black Radical Congress
1
3
1998
Black Students Association
1
1969, 1972
Board of Trustees Long-Range Planning Committee Draft Report
1
1992
Diversity Resources
1
undated, 1994-1995
Diversity Resources
2
1997-2001, 2005-2007
Gay Men of African Descent
2
undated, 2004-2005
LGBTQ - Program Resources
2
undated, 1995-1996
Local Organizations
2
未标明日期的,1995,1997
OAR Report
2
1997
Publicity - Off-Campus Events
3
undated, 1997, 2005-2008
Publicity - On-campus Events
2
1995, 1997-2001, 2007-2008
Speakers - Black and African American
2
1994-1999
Solidarity Club
2
3
2008
Student Group Resources
2
undated, 1995-1996, 1999-2000, 2008
Students for Jericho
2
1998
Sub-series C. Publications
Sub-series I. External
General
2
undated, 1972, 1989, 1991, 1994-1997, 1999, 2007
LGBTQ
2
undated, 1989, 1992-1993, 1996
Students of Color
2
1979, 1996, 1998
Unidad
2
undated, 1988-1991
Unidad
2
1992-1993
Unidad
2
1994-1998, 2002
Sub-series II. Student
411
2
1992-1993
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
Common Ground Magazine
2
undated
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
D
2
1989
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
Dark Phrases
2
2007-2008, 2011-2013
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
Dark Phrases, 2011-2013
Left Jab Poetry Magazine
2
1996
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
的忍者
2
2003, 2007-2008
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
The Phoenix
2
2005-2006
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
The Sadie Lou Standard
2
2006
See also
Student Life Collection - Student Publications
Student Papers
2
undated