President Grant Cornwell: "Any acts of racism, violence and hatred cannot be tolerated. As a campus community, we denounce these vicious acts and stand firmly with our Asian and Asian American friends, students and colleagues."
Rollins College Resources
Pathway to Diversity: Uncovering Our Collections at Rollins College
- Pathway to Diversity: Uncovering Our Collections at Rollins College
A recipient of a 2018-2019 Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Diversity Grant, Rollins College Archives and Special Collections is working towards creating an online digital archive of historical materials related to desegregation at Rollins College in the context of historic Winter Park and within the larger landscape of United States higher education.
Anti-racism Writings & Speeches by Rollins Faculty & Staff
- "Activism vs. Slacktivism ... Time To Move Just Beyond The Hashtag," by Katrina Jenkins
- "Americans Should Reward Asians’ Generosity, Not Attack Them," by Robert L. Moore
- “Ancestral Grief, Legitimate Rage, and a Greater Calling,” by Mamta Accapadi
- “As Thomas Paine Wrote, These Are Truly the Times That Try Men’s Souls,” by Jill Jones
- “COVID 19 and Racial Justice - More than a Vaccine,” by Brendaliz Santiago-Narvaez
- “Double Pandemics: Racism and COVID-19,” and "Pathogenic Policing: Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South," by Nolan Kline ’09
- Eric Smaw on NPR’s Intersection and Spectrum News 13
- “The Failure to Protect Our Children Where They Need It Most,” by Victoria Brown
- “How Asians Can Show up for Black Lives,” by Mary Robinson
- "Pathway to Diversity - The History of Race Relations at Rollins College: A Brief Overview from the Archives, Part I" by Wenxian Zhang
- "Pathway to Diversity - The History of Race Relations at Rollins College: A Brief Overview from the Archives, Part II" by Rachel Walton
- "Race and Sport in the Florida Sun: The Rollins/Ohio Wesleyan Football Game of 1947," by Wenxian Zhang, Raja Rahim, Julian Chambliss
- "Standing Up Against Racial Discrimination: Progressive Americans and the Chinese Exclusion Act in the Late Nineteenth Century," Wenxian Zhang
- "Stopping Anti-Asian Racism Requires Action, Non-Asian Allies," by Mary Robinson
- "What Can One Person Do To Fight for Police Reform," by Eric Smaw
Racial Justice & Rollins
The Rollins community is committed to doing our part to advance racial justice.
Bias Incident Report
Share Your Voice
- SURVEY: Documenting Social Justice and Activism
Archive Your Activism By Completing This Survey:
Olin Library and Rollins College Archives stands with other institutions in condemning systemic racism, violence, and discrimination. We invite students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members and others to share here about their participation in and experiences with various antiracism and social justice movements for the purposes of documenting these important personal histories.
Hello from Your Librarian
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Wenxian Zhang
Head of Archives & Special Collections
Olin Library, Rollins College
Winter Park, FL 32789
407-646-2231, wzhang@rollins.edu