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Direct linkLeigh, Elaine W.; Pak, Katie; Phuong, Jennifer – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2021
Student leadership and activism on college campuses has received more widespread attention in recent years, with attention to how student identities inform these organizing efforts. But, how students make sense of their leadership and activism practices is less understood, particularly in graduate student contexts and for different marginalized…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Activism, Asian American Students, Females
Morgan, Demetri L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
Based on intensive interviews with 39 participants across four geographically and politically diverse public institutions, this study describes the concept of "student political fluency," the core category developed using constructivist grounded theory. The development of political fluency reflects the expertise a student has based on…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Grounded Theory
Enriquez, Laura E.; Chavarria, Karina; Rodriguez, Victoria E.; Ayón, Cecilia; Ellis, Basia D.; Hagan, Melissa J.; Jefferies, Julián; Lara, Jannet; Morales Hernandez, Martha; Murillo, Enrique G.; Nájera, Jennifer R.; Offidani-Bertrand, Carly; Oropeza Fujimoto, Maria; Ro, Annie; Rosales, William E; Sarabia, Heidy; Soltero López, Ana K.; Valadez, Mercedes; Valdez, Zulema; Velarde Pierce, Sharon – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2021
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students' experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Students, At Risk Students, Student Experience
Broadhurst, Christopher; Martin, Georgianna L. – Journal of College and Character, 2014
Using data from the Wabash National Study, authors examine how students' perceptions of campus climate influence growth in students' social and political activism. The goal of this article is to determine to what extent, if any, students' perceptions of the campus environment affect their orientation toward social/political activism over 4 years…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Environment, Environmental Influences, Activism
Download full textDickinson, James C. – 1969
Few accurate or complete pictures of the issues leading to student protests and the relation of these issues to the characteristics of the institutions and the protestors exist. In an investigation of the content and distribution of protest, the following trends were discovered: (1) protests varied in form, content, and consequences, (2) the most…
Descriptors: Activism, College Environment, College Students, Colleges
Lipset, Seymour Martin – 1968
Unlike the student protest movements of the 1930's, which were linked to adult political parties, the dominant ones of the present constitute a genuine youth rebellion. This is primarily due to a change in the political climate in the last 10 years, with emphasis shifting from events and threats from abroad to social ills at home. Student activism…
Descriptors: Activism, College Environment, College Students, Family Characteristics
Peer reviewedAltbach, Philip G. – Higher Education, 1991
This introduction to the special issue on student political activism and attitudes notes the importance of college student attitudes toward politics, education, and society in affecting campus politics, academic choices, and society. (MSE)
Descriptors: Activism, College Environment, College Students, Extracurricular Activities
Kahn, Roger; Bowers, William J. – Sociol Educ, 1970
This paper examines, within colleges of varying institutional quality, a core of characteristics that previous studies have identified as strongly associated with students' political activism." (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, College Environment, College Students
Axelrod, Paul – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1990
The relationship between the history of the student and contemporary student life is explored, and enduring patterns are identified in three areas: the social origins of students; student culture and activism; and the perceived academic quality of students. It is concluded that students should be heard and taken more seriously. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Activism, College Environment, Educational History
PDF pending restorationAstin, Alexander W. – 1969
This investigation was designed to determine the frequency and extent of student unrest during the 1968-1969 academic year and to identify possible causal factors. The sample consisted of 382 colleges and universities which responded to a questionnaire concerned with the incidence of protest, their mode, the issues involved, the immediate…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrative Policy, College Environment, College Students
Peer reviewedSimon, Frank – Journal of Educational Thought, 1980
The author analyzes the characteristics of the students and the institutions involved in the campus disorders of the 1960s. He suggests that, while today's students lack their predecessors' social outrage, future rebellion is not impossible, especially while university personnel remain unresponsive and ignore the historic power of student…
Descriptors: Activism, Attitude Change, College Administration, College Environment
Altbach, Philip G. – 1997
This book provides an historical overview of American student activism from 1900 to the present with emphasis on the period from 1900 to 1960. An introduction to this edition reviews student activism since 1970 concluding that, despite brief sparks of activism such as the anti-apartheid struggle, there are currently no national or regional…
Descriptors: Activism, College Environment, College Students, Educational History
Kimball, Ronald L.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1971
Differences between background characteristics and attitudes of participants and nonparticipants in campus demonstrations were studied. An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 5,671 University of Maryland, College Park, undergraduates during fall registration, 1970. Results show that 50 percent of the sample had participated in some campus…
Descriptors: Activism, College Environment, College Students, Demonstrations (Civil)
Altbach, Philip G., Ed. – 1981
The status of student political activism in the 1970s and 1980s in such nations as the United States, Britain, India, Japan, Italy, Canada, West Germany, Greece, Zambia and Latin America is examined. The volume consists of 13 chapters written by scholars who all agree that student activism is not now at peak levels of the 1960s, yet student…
Descriptors: Activism, College Environment, College Students, Developing Nations
