Campus‐Based Organizing: Tactical Repertoires of Contemporary Student Movements

Abstract

This chapter elaborates on the range of collective action tactics and organizing strategies that today's students invoke to pursue their ambitions for social change.

Whiteness in Higher Education: The Invisible Missing Link in Diversity and Racial Analyses

“…Thus, there is a pressing need for critical interrogations of Whiteness in higher education. The surging campus‐based student activism can be interpreted, in part, as a rejection of the assumptions of Whiteness within the ivory tower (Barnhardt, ; Maldonado, Rhoads, & Buenavista, ; Muñoz, ). Despite the need to understand, explore, and challenge Whiteness within institutions of higher education, engaging in this type of scholarship can have an unintended, negative consequence.…”

Reframing Activism as Leadership

“…The use of social media organizing, political and social movement building, and acts of advocacy discussed here are but a glimpse into the ways in which students utilize contemporary platforms to discuss long‐term solutions to contentious issues. Given the ways in which campus policies and guidelines outline ways for students to engage in dissent (Barnhardt, ), the use of technology and extra‐personal knowledge sharing have become a larger means of student engagement in dissent and activism. Accordingly, coming to understand the ways in which student activists are not only leaders but deserve to be developed as such is crucial to continued campus success as these student leaders are often among the most visible within their school setting.…”

Border U

“…Latinx Graduation Ceremonies can be understood as part of this academic activism via revolt , in how they are remaking the commencement ceremony and reconfiguring its borders. This revolt is aligned with academic activism that uses tactical approaches that promotes familiar administrative policies and practice (Barnhardt, 2014). Unlike activism in the 1960s, that some scholars have identified as combative (Altbach and Cohen, 1990), the revolt in these ceremonies is shaped within the context of the university.…”