COE/CORRE/CORRIE - Records of the Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity, 1988-2001

Collection context

Creator:
Barnard College, Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity
Abstract:
This collection consists of materials from the Barnard College Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity (COE/CORRE/CORRIE).
Extent:
1.25 Linear Feet (3 document boxes)
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

The COE/CORRE/CORRIE collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, and publicity materials from the organization's beginning in 1988 to its end in 2001. Meeting minutes include both general group meeting minutes, as well as subcommittee meeting minutes, and highlight the attendees of CORRIE meetings as well as the coordinators and organizers of subcommittees. Publicity materials are primarily posters and flyers advertising various events organized or sponsored by CORRIE. While most items in the collection are related to the inner workings of CORRIE, there are also items relating to specific moments of tension and conflict surrounding issues of identity at Barnard College and Columbia University. Much of the work done by CORRIE dealt with Black and African American student experiences at Barnard, but there is also documentation of CORRIE's work with other students of color, as well as students with a variety of religious faiths, and sexual identities.

Biographical / historical:

The Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity (CORRIE) was created with the purpose of engaging Barnard students, faculty, and staff in anti-discriminatory action at Barnard College. CORRIE was responsible for a variety of actions at different levels, including: drafting policy statements and recommendations regarding the hiring of faculty of color, conducting exit interviews to gauge the experiences of minority students on campus, organizing events that supported students of color on campus such as the annual Unity Dinner, Student of Color Retreat, and a variety of speaker-series on topics of Race, Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity, and assisting to instate a Pan-African Studies major and an American Cultures requirement in the Barnard curriculum.

The Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity (CORRIE) officially began in 1988 as the Committee on Ethnicity (COE), although students, faculty, and staff had met in 1987 in an unofficial capacity. Upon its formation, COE consisted of seven subcommittees: Curriculum and Faculty, Agenda, Awareness, Admissions and Financial Aid, Programing, Training, and the Policy Task Force. COE was changed to the Committee on Race, Religion, and Ethnicity (CORRE) in 1989, to reflect the addition of issues of race and religion, and the mission statement of the group was revised. CORRE underwent one final name change in 1993, adding the category of Identity, and became the Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity (CORRIE), following protests and editorials from LABIA (Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action)- Barnard's lesbian and bisexual student activist group. By 2001, CORRIE's function as a group was assumed by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.

Preferred citation:

COE/CORRE/CORRIE - Records of the Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity, Date, Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Location of this collection:
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
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