Over the years, UC Irvine Libraries’ community-centered archives initiatives have benefited from close partnerships with numerous community organizations and UC Irvine organizations, units, and schools.

 

UC Irvine Partners

  • Academic and Professional Women of UC Irvine
  • Black Alumni Chapter
  • Center for Storytelling
  • Department of African American Studies
  • Department of Asian American Studies
  • Department of Chicano Latino Studies
  • Department of History
  • History Project
  • Humanities Center
  • Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health
  • Newkirk Center for Science and Society
  • Programs in Medical Education Leadership Education to Advance Doctoring – African, Black and Caribbean (PRIME LEAD-ABC)
  • School of Education
  • School of Humanities
  • School of Social Ecology
  • School of Social Sciences
  • Southeast Asian Student Association

Community Partners

  • Black Leaders of Orange County
  • Black Panther Oakland Community School Research Cluster
  • Cambodian Community History and Archive Project
  • The Cambodian Family
  • Christ Our Redeemer (COR) African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • CRECE Urban Farms
  • Educate to Empower
  • Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)
  • Groundswell
  • Heritage Museum of Orange County
  • LGBT Center OC
  • Newport Beach Library Foundation
  • Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance
  • Orange County Public Library
  • Pacific Islander Health Partnership
  • Santa Ana History Room
  • Southern California Library
  • Viet Rainbow of Orange County
  • Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association
 

Future of Community-Centered Archives Practice (CCAP) at UC Irvine

We aspire to deepen the impact of the Mellon Foundation–funded Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History (CCAP TEACH) initiative through an endowment that ensures long-term support for training undergraduate scholars and advancing community-driven archival work.

 

This next phase will honor the expertise of community partners by providing direct compensation for their leadership in developing projects that preserve Southern California’s cultural heritage. It will also expand public programming and embed CCAP TEACH as a core initiative within UC Irvine Libraries.