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Affirmative action programs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on programs intended to provide opportunities for members of minority groups who are regarded as having suffered from discrimination. Works on the use of political institutions to reconcile interethnic differences and conflicts within multi-ethnic states are entered under Ethnic accommodation.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jo Townson collection of Mobilization papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0021-01
Abstract This collection consists of material created and assembled by New School alumna Jo Townson in the course of her activism with the Mobilization for Real Diversity, Democracy, and Economic Justice in the mid-1990s. The Mobilization was a student-led protest movement at The New School during the 1996-1997 academic year. The materials include Mobilization fliers, pamphlets, and meeting notes, as well as material collected by the Mobilization. This material includes papers from the...
Dates: 1987 - 1997

Mark Schmidt collection of Mobilization materials

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0020-01
Abstract

Mark Schmidt is an alumnus of Eugene Lang College at The New School who took part in the Mobilization for Real Diversity, Democracy, and Economic Justice. The Mobilization was a campus movement during the 1996-1997 school year that protested the firing of Professor M. Jacqui Alexander, an Afro-Carribbean feminist scholar and Graduate Faculty member. This small collection of materials, assembled by Schmidt, includes photographs and a video.

Dates: 1996-1997

Tracyann Williams Schools of Public Engagement records

 Record Group
Identifier: NS-02-01-07
Abstract

Records of Tracyann Williams, PhD, who served as director of Academic Affairs for the Bachelor's Program for Adult and Transfer Students (BPATS) in The New School's Schools of Public Engagement until she left the university in early 2020. Includes documentation on the Diversity Committee and the Diversity Task Force, the Gender Studies program, the Faculty Senate, and Students of the African Diaspora, for whom Williams was a faculty advisor.

Dates: circa 1997 - 2016