History
Co-ops began in Oberlin in 1950. The organization incorporated as The Oberlin Student Cooperative Association in 1962.
In the spring of 2002, OSCA created the institution of COPAO, the Committee on Privilege and Oppression, which explores racial and socio-economic inequality within the cooperative system.
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