Team Liberation Records, 2002-2004

Title: Team Liberation Records, 2002-2004

ID: RG 287

Primary Creator: Team Liberation (Oregon State University)

Extent: 6.6 megabytes. More info below.

Arrangement: The original arrangement of the electronic records has been retained.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Team Liberation Records document the establishment and functioning of this organization, which was formed to provide interactive workshops to the Oregon State University community on issues of racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ageism, religious intolerance, communications, and community and leadership development.  The records include rosters of facilitators; correspondence; promotional materials; budget proposals; and training materials, including agendas and exercises.

All the materials in the collection are born-digital records.  The original arrangement of the files has been retained. Most of the files are arranged in folders with the following titles: Admin;  Agendas; Exercises; Development; NCCJ [National Conference of Community and Justice]; Process Coordination; and Training.  The majority of the files are *.doc format.  The records include a few (less than 10) files of other formats: . ppt; .pub, .pdf, and .html.  The records are available to researchers in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center Reading Room.

Team Liberation was established in 2002 at Oregon State University as a program of the Diversity Development Office.  In June 2002, a group of 10 Oregon State students and 2 administrators were trained as faciilatators by Linda Sneddon, Program Director of the National Conference of Community and Justice in Portland, Oregon.  These facilitators (mostly students) began presenting workshops in summer 2002.

A promotional flyer within the collection describes the purpose of the organization this way:  "We as facilitators are seeking to help people liberate themselves from the thought-patterns and actions of social systems of oppresssion in which they have been immersed.  We seek to manifest the change that we seek in the world -- that everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, age, or ability, has an equal opportunity to grow, thrive and live with dignity and respect."

More Extent Information: 139 files

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: These electronic records were received with a transfer of records from the Difference, Power, and Discrimination (DPD) Program in 2015.  In 2018, they were separated from the DPD Program Records to establish this collection.

Related Materials: This collection is a component of the Oregon Multicultural Archives.  The records of the Diversity Development Office (RG 228); Difference, Power, and Discrimination (DPD) Program  (RG 250); and Office of Multicultural Affairs (RG 225) provide extensive documentation of other multicultural and diversity training initiatives at Oregon State.

Preferred Citation: Team Liberation Records (RG 287), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Team Liberation (Oregon State University)

College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Multicultural education--Oregon.
Multiculturalism--Oregon.
Oregon Multicultural Archives
Oregon State University. Diversity Development Office
Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
Team Liberation (Oregon State University)
University History

Born digital.