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Neil Wollman Papers

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Call Number:
DG.234
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
5 linear ft. (5 linear ft.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Neil Wollman Papers (DG 234), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
ca. 1984- (bulk)
Creator:
Wollman, Neil, 1950-
Abstract:
Neil Wollman (1950 - ) is a peace activist and psychologist. Beginning ca. 1984, Wollman began to pressure Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) to engage in socially responsible investing, including divesting from companies that did business in South Africa or built nuclear weapons. Wollman helped to form the Make TIAA-CREF Ethical Coalition. He is the the author of the Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility (www.graduationpledge.org), and iscurrently involved with Kids Can make A Difference "to inspire students to realize that it is within their power to help eliminate hunger and poverty in their communities, country and world."

Neil Wollman (1950 - ) is a peace activist and psychologist, with a B.A. in political science from Northwestern University, a M.A. in psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. He retired after 29 years as professor of psychology and Senior Fellow of The Peace Studies Institute at Manchester College (North Manchester, Indiana). He has been a Senior Fellow with Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility (Bentley College, Massachusetts), joint project director of the National Index of Violence and Harm. Beginning ca. 1984, Wollman began to pressure Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) to engage in socially responsible investing, including divesting from companies that did business in South Africa or built nuclear weapons. Wollman helped to form the Make TIAA-CREF Ethical Coalition, which has since broadened its scope of activism to include other large institutional investors. Wollman is the the author of the Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility (www.graduationpledge.org), and iscurrently involved with Kids Can make A Difference "to inspire students to realize that it is within their power to help eliminate hunger and poverty in their communities, country and world."

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.

Gift of Neil Wollman, 2009 [Acc. 09A-002].

This collection remains unprocessed. This finding aid was created by Declan White and Wendy Chmielewski, August 2011.

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Collection Inventory

Interview Evaluations.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
CCCO.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Church of the Brethren.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Church Women United.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Black Trade Unionists Coalition.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Conservation International.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Cultural Survival.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Democratic Socialists of America.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Friends Committee National Legislation.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Grassroots International.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Institute for Policy Studies.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Jobs and Environment Campaign.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
Midwest Center for Labor Research.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 1
National Alliance against Racism and Political Oppression.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
National Coalition against Censorship.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
National Coalition for Homeless.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
National Coalition for American Nuns.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
National Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
National Coalition for Economic Conversion and Disarmament.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
National Resource Defense Council.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
News and Letters Committees.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
National Interreligious Services Board for Conscientious Objectors.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
Peace Action.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
Parliamentarians for Global Action.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
Oxfam.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
Physicians for Human Rights.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
Presbyterian Church.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 2
Synapses.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
20/20 Vision.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
Trans Africa.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
Union of Concerned Scientists.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
United Church of Christ.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
University Conversion Project.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
Women's Action for New Directions (WAND).
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
War Resisters League.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
Witness for Peace.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
World Federalists.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 3
Miscellaneous- correspondence, notes and articles.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 4
Scope and Contents

[14 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF Files.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 5
Scope and Contents

[11 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF files.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 6
Scope and Contents

[14 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF files.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 7
Scope and Contents

[11 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF files.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 8
Scope and Contents

[11 folders]

TIAA-CREF Social Choice Accounts.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 8
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF files.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 9
Scope and Contents

[10 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF files.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 10
Scope and Contents

[12 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF files.
Box DG 234: Acc. 09A-002: 11
Scope and Contents

[8 folders]

Clean Up TIAA-CREF.
Box DG 234: Miscellaneous: 12
TIAA-CREF Directories.
Box DG 234: Miscellaneous: 12
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

Miscellaneous TIAA-CREF files, 1985-1989.
Box DG 234: Miscellaneous: 12
Scope and Contents

[6 folders]

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1985-1990.
Box DG 234: Miscellaneous: 13
Scope and Contents

[6 folders]

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