We have been collaborating with Andre Thompson and OASIS since late 2021 on their project to highlight Black achievement at UC San Diego. This project, led by Andre Thompson, started as a collaborative effort between OASIS and the Black Studies Project. The connection was made between Porsia Curry, the former Campus Diversity Officer and Director of the Black Resource Center and Erik Mitchell, UC San Diego University Librarian, who put us in touch with Porsia, who connected us with Andre. (It’s important to honor the connections made.) After many personnel changes for both the Black Resource Center and OASIS, the effort was kicked off onRead More →

The project collaborated with Federica Bucca, Assistant Director of Sixth Residence Life to provide the timeline banners on February 29, 2024 for the Sixth College annual Let It Flow event. From Federica: “Let It Flow is an annual event that celebrates the African and Black diaspora, shares traditions, histories, and cultures through performing and visual arts. This event, at its core, serves as a catalyst for deeper engagement and helps the UCSD student community cultivate a sense of belonging, dedicated to, and built upon fostering inclusivity by honoring the contributions of The Black Arts Movement.  Let It Flow has been a historical Sixth College event sinceRead More →

The Cross-Cultural Center (CCC) interns incorporated the Tell Us How UC It Timeline into their training. CCC interns first interacted with the timeline in their Spring 22 practicum. This Fall they had more of an opportunity to deeply engage with the history of student activism and understand inclusion efforts on campus. In a student-led training, knowledge was passed between students, which was challenging to upkeep during the pandemic period. Affiliate student organizations were also able to view the timeline banners at the CCC and learn about the rich history of activism they are building upon.Read More →

Members of Tell Us How UC It presented at the Learning/Teaching for Justice Conference, hosted by Dimensions of Culture Program and in celebration of Thurgood Marshall College’s 50th Anniversary. The session was called “Tell Us How UC It: Understanding the Past and Creating a Student-Led Future.” The objectives were to 1) share the timeline to demonstrate how students have changed the university and facilitate a conversation about how past events shape the present and impact the future, 2) examine how student voices are represented, and 3) create space for students to share how they can be further represented within the project.Read More →

This Winter Quarter, members of Tell Us How UC It will collaborate with Simeon Man, Inaugural Director of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program and Windi Sasaki, Associate Director, Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American (APIMEDA) Programs and Services on an oral history project to capture stories and preserve the history of AAPI student activism at UCSD. The first cohort of students will meet with a range of guest speakers including UCSD alumni, faculty, and librarians to provide context, draw connections and learn about the oral history process. Learn more at: https://knit.ucsd.edu/grow/Read More →

Members of Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive were invited to present on September 29, 2020 for the Society of California Archivists. Their presentation was titled “Tell us how UC it: Thinking critically through a living archive for student activism.” A recording of the presentation can be accessed below, as well as at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPjySILfHEURead More →

On January 15, 2020, the UCSD Org Council for Social Justice in the University held their winter conference. Co-organizer Bobby Edwards, a graduate student in the History Department, reached out to use the Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive project student activism timeline to open the event with a brief history and memory of student activism.Read More →

Members of the project collaborated with Dr. Erica Bender and Matthew Nelson, from UC San Diego’s Teaching and Learning Commons, and Fnann Keflezighi, Thurgood Marshall College Assistant Director of Residential Life, to create two workshops for their staff to aid in their discussions and planning for their equity, diversity, and inclusion practices and efforts. Members gave a presentation titled “The past is present. About Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive and UC San Diego’s campus climate” and contributed the physical student activism timeline banners for a month-long exhibit in their spaces.Read More →

Members of the project exhibited the timeline banners and set up a feedback board at a free speech event organized by Beagle RA, Sudarshan Srinivasan, from Revelle College. This program’s goal was to “inform residents about their responsibility regarding individual free speech” and the event featured a plywood wall to spray paint freedom of speech messages, an “ask a lawyer” booth with Student Legal Services and a lawyer present, a free speech gallery, and more.Read More →

Members of the project were invited to present at the Berkeley chapter of the Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) 2019 conference. The theme was “Shelf Awareness: The Intersections of Social Justice and Critical Librarianship. It was a welcome opportunity to take a step back from project activities to think critically about the project itself and things to consider for its future.Read More →

The annual Equity-Minded Education Workshop for Resident Assistance and House Advisors to encourage critical reflection to promote an inclusive environment was offered jointly with all six colleges and Assistant Director of Residential Life, Fnann Keflezighi, organized use of the Tell Us How UC It timeline banners to share the history of activism at UC San Diego as a way of establishing an understanding of the foundation for the campus climate.Read More →

Members of the project presented a poster for the second University of California Digital Library Forum (DLFx) at UC San Diego. The conference brings together UC librarians, digital technology experts, educators and other leaders from across UC to share insights and experiences and seek new opportunities for collaboration.Read More →

A member of the Tell Us How UC It project presented on a panel at the University of San Diego 2019 Digital Initiatives Symposium called “Having a Social Impact: Supporting Social Justice and Open Access through Digital Initiative Projects.” Panel Abstract: “Digital infrastructures and tools allow organizations and institutions to create opportunities for projects, information transfer, learning, and platforms for a range of voices. It also creates opportunities that promote open access, social justice, and social impact. Panelists who are directly involved in digital initiative projects that specifically seek to impact society, either by opening up information resources to everyone, or by giving people theRead More →

Members of the Tell Us How UC It project presented a poster at the 3rd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color on September 26-30, 2018. The conference theme was “Gathering all Peoples: Embracing Culture & Community” and the poster was titled “#Staywoke: using living archives to build bridges to the future by reflecting on our past.”Read More →

Members of the project presented the student activism timeline as part of the Social Science Division training for incoming Teaching Assistants (SS TA Training) to help prepare them to teach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion courses. “One of our goals is to help incoming graduate students to understand some of the events that occurred during 2010, and the student activism that helped lead to changes on campus (including the DEI requirement). The archives will be a real resource for TAs to draw from and to use in their teaching.” Department of Anthropology Graduate Professionalization CoordinatorRead More →

In conjunction with the annual Resident Assistant/Housing Advisory training, Assistant Director of Residential Life Fnann Keflezighi organized an exhibit of the Tell Us How UC It timeline banners in Angela’s Space, one of Thurgood Marshall College’s lounge areas in the Ocean View Building.Read More →

This Anthropology: Sociocultural Anthropology seminar, created and taught by Dr. Hanna Garth, traces the historical roots and growth of the Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States and comparative global contexts. For their final projects, students were asked to get into groups and create or improve wikipedia pages that have something to do with the course content/Black people. They drew on printed and digital resources for citations in building their pages. The Tell Us How UC It team spoke with the class about how to effectively use the library and digital materials for these kinds of projects, and the experience with Tell UsRead More →

The DIAL (Diversity in Academic Libraries) Interest Group showcase for the 2016 California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) conference addressed the library’s role in responding to the growing societal unrest of their marginalized communities via a discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement and a showcase of best practices that California academic libraries/librarians might utilize in their own efforts. For its 2018 showcase, with the conference’s theme being “Libraries Respond: Connecting with our Communities in Times of Crisis,” DIAL continued with this structure with a broader focus on marginalized communities in general, with some attention to the government’s decision to end the Deferred Action forRead More →

An annual Equity-Minded Education Workshop is offered to Resident Assistance and House Advisors to encourage critical reflection to promote an inclusive environment. Assistant Director of Residential Life, Fnann Keflezighi, organized use of the Tell Us How UC It timeline banners to share the history of activism at UC San Diego as a way of establishing an understanding of the foundation for the campus climate.Read More →

Members of the Tell Us How UC It project presented a poster at the 2017 California Library Association Conference themed “New World Emerge.” The poster was titled “Losing sight of the shore: navigating your way to a living archive.”Read More →

Members of the Tell Us How UC It project presented a poster at the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference & Exhibition themed “The Librarians Call to Action.” The poster was titled “Born from a storm: Creating a living archive to affect social issues in your community.”Read More →

On Friday, June 2, 2017, members of the Tell Us How UC It project team presented to a Sixth College CAT 3 writing program course titled: Art of the Protest: Cultural Production, Protest, & Technologies of Change, taught by Dr. Phoebe Bronstein. As described in its syllabus, “This writing and communication course will focus on the rhetoric, technology, and art of American protest, with special attention understanding the role of technology (from the printing press to twitter) in civil disobedience. This course insists on the importance of historical memory, asking how the history of American protests aids in and informs the formation of contemporary movements,Read More →

On Thursday, May 25, 2017, members of the Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive project gave a presentation to the Spring 2017 ANTH21: Race & Racism course, taught by Dr. Hanna Garth, about the project with regards to race & racism. In thinking about representing student perspectives and how many stories go untold, the final activity of the presentation was a prompt for the students to write on a post-it note their responses to the question “What would you want future students to know about how you are experiencing this current political era?” Student responses can be seen at https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb2394091cRead More →

On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 from 2-4pm, the UC San Diego Library organized a workshop titled “From Crisis to Change: How to Organize for Action” in collaboration with the University of California Student Association. Image source: https://ucsd.libcal.com/event/3291451 According to Maya Angelou, “the more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” Knowledge of history, along with direct action organizing, can create significant change by making students aware of their own power in order to alter the existing power relations. This two-part training covered the history of UC San Diego as it relates to the current campus climate, social change, and activism through theRead More →

The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.Image source: https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/ Members of the Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive project presented about Tell Us How UC It at DPLAfest 2017. The presentation was titled “Tell Us How UC It: creating a living archive to affect social issues in your community.” DPLAfest 2017—the fourth major gathering of the Digital Public Library of America’s broad community—took place on April 20-21, 2017 in Chicago at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center. It brought togetherRead More →

Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive debuted with an exhibit in the UC San Diego Library from February 1 – March 31, 2017 that included a history of student activism timeline, a selection of the creative work from students expressing their experience of the campus climate, and an area for visitor feedback. On Wednesday, February 1, 2017, to open the exhibit, the UC San Diego Library hosted “From Crisis to Change: The Student Experience & Activism on Campus.” The panel discussion included staff, faculty, and alumni who have been on the front lines of change at UC San Diego, including: Fnann Keflezighi (UCRead More →