This project emerges out of and builds upon a research study examining Black student activism on two major urban Canadian university campuses—McGill University and University of Toronto—from 1960 into the 21st century. *

Using independent student newspapers as alternative institutional archives and central sources of student movement history, that project raises awareness and understanding about how students have organized on university campuses, around identity, status, and/ or politics, and have built solidarity with one another across differences.

This website tells stories that have surfaced through this investigation and invites former and current students across Canada to share their stories of organizing as well, through contributing written, visual and/ or audio documentation. We are especially interested in the work and experiences of Black students, as well as other students organizing from marginalized positions and/ or antagonistic relations with the university.

Coalition Building on Campus (CBoC) is not intended as a digital home for the complete archives of singular groups or organizations. Rather, it is a space for the ongoing construction of a collective story of student organizing, chapter by chapter, across institutional, historical, and geographic contexts.

* rosalind hampton and Michelle Hartman, Coalition Building by and with Black Students at Canadian Universities. Funding provided by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant.