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Kennedy, Jeffrey; Pek, Simon – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Meaningful student participation is essential to realizing democratic ideals within the university. However, existing structures for involving students within university governance suffer from a variety of shortcomings, leaving scholars calling for ways to make student participation more inclusive, effective, and thoughtful. To address this…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Participation, Participative Decision Making, Governance
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Antonowicz, Dominik; Pinheiro, Rómulo; Smuzewska, Marcelina – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Student representation in Poland has a relatively short but turbulent history. This article offers an historical appraisal of the development of student representation at the national level in the context of rapid and deep structural changes in Polish higher education. Based on a desktop analysis of official documentation, legislation, ideological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Educational History, Student Government
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Luescher-Mamashela, Thierry M.; Mugume, Taabo – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
The transition from one-party rule and other forms of authoritarianism to multiparty democracy in the 1990s has had a profound impact on the organisation and role of student politics in Africa. Against the background of student involvement in African politics in the twentieth century, leading up to student participation in Africa's "second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education, African Studies