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The Princeton Hidden Minority Council Records document the development of the organization as well as its programs and campaigns. The records include files related to governance such as executive board position descriptions, the organization's constitution, and email communications between board members; files related to events, programs and outreach including flyers presentations and planning documents; and email communications including messages addressed to the group's email address and messages sent to its listserv. The files were created, edited and stored in a Google Drive account used exclusively by board members. The collection also includes a small number of paper files including board member information, flyers and photographs including the "Thoughts" campaign photographs, and printed emails on the formation of PHMC.
The born-digital documents that were maintained on the Google Drive account are listed first followed by four folders of analog materials.
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The records were transferred to the University Archives in April of 2016 as part of the Archiving Student Activism at Princeton (ASAP) initiative (AR.2016.022).
Appraisal was conducted in accordance with Princeton University Archives practices.
This collection was processed by Lynn Durgin in June 2016. Finding aid written by Lynn Durgin in June 2016.
Princeton Hidden Minorities Council Records, Folder and File Name, Princeton University Archives, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
The Princeton Hidden Minority Council (PHMC) is a student organization at Princeton University dedicated to supporting and advocating for students who are the first in their families to attend college or are from low income circumstances (FLI). The group was founded in 2013 by eight students who recognized the need for a supportive space for FLI students on campus. PHMC seeks to connect FLI students with existing resources, develop additional resources, and to foster awareness and reduce stigma for FLI students by sharing stories and insights about their experiences.
The College of New Jersey was initially chartered in 1746. The first classes were held in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in the parsonage of the president, the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson. Upon his death, the College moved to Newark, New Jersey, and was headed by the Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr. Since 1756, the College has been located in Princeton, New Jersey. For the first fifty years, nearly all College operations took place within Nassau Hall. Fires, fundraising difficulties, low student enrollment, and the Civil War challenged the vitality of the College in the early and middle nineteenth century, but the College grew vigorously under the leadership of President James McCosh, and it was renamed Princeton University in 1896. The Graduate School was established in 1900, although a limited graduate program had existed since the 1870s. Princeton enthusiastically supported the country (living up to its informal motto, "Princeton in the Nation's Service") during the First and Second World Wars, offering the expertise of faculty and campus space for training, as well as facilitating the early graduation of students so they could enlist. The post-World War II years brought dramatic changes to Princeton. The size and strength of the University's facilities and academic programs—especially for the applied sciences and public policy—were increased dramatically. Under President Robert Goheen, Princeton began to admit minority students in greater numbers in the 1960s and admitted women undergraduates in 1969. Today, Princeton is widely regarded as one of the top universities in the world.
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