Just Published: Student Activism and Organizations in SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education

June 28, 2020

Klemenčič, M. (2020). Student activism and organizations. In M. David & M. Amey (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of higher education (Vol. 1, pp. 1407-1411). Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781529714395.n531

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Student activism and student organizations are a universal feature of higher education institutions globally. In the 21st century, student activism refers to any political engagements of students to bring about political and social change. Student organizations are enduring collectivities of students that are autonomously governed and managed by students with different degrees of formalization and institutionalization of governing structures and processes and are established with the primary purpose of serving students. This entry provides an overview of student activism and organizations in higher education and explores how they are defined. It then discusses two distinct types of student organizations and reviews research related to student activism and organizations.

Overview

Students have had significant and often ignored impact on their higher education institutions and communities in which these ...