College students across the United States are engaging in protests, sit-ins, and walk-outs, but when do these political acts result in tangible institutional policy changes? This paper draws on qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with 502 participants across the United States to examine when and why college student political…

This article examines African American, Latina/o, and White high school students' assertions of cultural and ethnic identities as they struggle for their educational rights in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. In doing so, this study illustrates the ways in which alternative spaces outside the formal context of schools facilitate expressions,…

Goes beyond generally accepted views in trying to pinpoint the root causes of student unrest in the universities in the recent past, and tries relating these to the Harvard University strike of 1969. (RJ)

Contemporary university administrators are usually wimps, and timidity in facing easily enraged campus radicals only invites outrageous demands which, in turn, subvert intellectual life. This must be changed. For much of human history leaders had to display physical valor and this trait should be restored to the college administrator job…

Author theorizes about current and coming change in the nature of mass higher education'' in view of the activism of the 1960s. (Editor/MB)

Last spring, at the height of the frenzy over accusations that three Duke University men's lacrosse players had gang raped a Black exotic dancer during a party, faculty from Duke's African and African American studies department chose to take a stand. With emotions running high, the faculty took out a full-page advertisement in student newspaper,…

Attempts to show that the protests of the 1960's are evidence of a disjunction between the perceived role of young as adults and the actual role relegated them by society. Removing this disjunction causes a rapid decline in protest. (Author)

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, California, August 30-September 3, 1968.

Presents the results of a survey on student attitudes that the author's research firm carried out. (Editor)

This article contrasts with a sample of college students the youthful members of two expressively alienated forms of nonconformity: student activists committed to confrontation tactics to force social change and disaffiliated college dropouts withdrawn from incompatible social conditions. (Author)

In a search for the causes of student unrest, it is difficult to separate basic causes from the spoken and rationilized causes. This paper attempts to present a level of analysis which is sufficiently generic so as to discern basic trends and issues but at the same time descriptively specific, so as to be useful in facing practical issues and…

Briefly discusses the limitations of a counter-culture (a semi-organized culture which examines and challenges many political and non-political features of the dominant culture) explanation of activism, and the implications of such an explanation for methodology of social movement. (RJ)

Much of the present student ferment in France is a new manifestation of phenomena familiar since the end of the nineteenth century. A key element is student anomie." (Author/SE)

In 2004, a group of high school students at a private American school in Mexico City started the first gay-straight alliance in Mexico. A small group of conservative parents and a Mormon principal organized in opposition. This paper details the students' struggle to keep their club and offers lessons learned about student activism, school change,…

The purpose of this essay is to discuss two questions with regard to student activism. What professional and institutional stands or policies would help reunite the university? What is the cause of the disjunction and why has it come at the present time?" (SE)