While institutions of higher education (IHEs) encourage freedom of expression, critical thinking, and the dynamic exchange of ideas, they have also historically been the setting for social and political demonstrations. It is important for university leaders to collaborate closely with safety, security, and emergency management partners. This fact…

This chapter traces two decades of published research on learning outcomes related to campus activism and reports results from a speculative study considering civic outcomes from participation in campus political and war demonstrations.

In 2010, in thirty states across the nation, students and faculty members protested for access to public education and against tuition and fee hikes. A common theme of the protests was the fear that rising tuition would effectively privatize public higher education, making it inaccessible to a broad segment of the nation's youth. These protests…

This essay outlines the course and character of the American student leftist movement during the twentieth century. It summarizes the earlier character of student leftism and describes how the "New Left" developed, its constellation of beliefs, and its tactics and objectives. A principal conclusion is that hard-core student activists…

This study looks at 282 urban citizens' attitudes about campus dissent, attitudes about the legitimacy of a campus disturbance, and their satisfaction with a University soon after a serious campus disturbance. A majority of urban citizens were satisfied with the University. Their beliefs about the University were heavily related to their…

Author feels that a national that can send men to the moon should be able to rid itself of social unrest. (HS)

In the course of investigating disorders on college campuses, the Committee conducted preliminary inquiries and later took sworn testimony from witnesses concerning the following institutions: Harvard University, Columbia University, City College of New York, Brooklyn College, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Voorhees…

In an address to Association of American Colleges (Houston, Texas, January 1970), author says the new youth movement is aiming at moral development. (IR)

Beginning with the Higher Education Amendments of 1968, Congress has attached anti-disruption provisions to various appropriation bills affecting higher education. These provisions are generically aimed at denying federal and support funds to persons involved in campus disruptions. The programs affected by this legislation are: (1) the Student…

Some student demonstrations and rioting were probably a revolt against form, rather than for reform. (Ed./HS)

Chairman of the House Special Subcommittee on Education sees in continued campus disruption the loss of public and private funds that higher education cannot afford. Adapted from address to Higher Education Group of Washington, June 9, 1970. (IR)

Criticism of Harvard's financial aid policy for Selective Service nonregistrants focuses on the example it sets to other institutions and the offering of jobs and loans to students in close association with their act of civil disobedience, the violation of a public law. (MSE)

A former graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, at the time of the occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians reminisces about the development of a Native American Studies program at Berkeley, a course on Indian liberation given just before the occupation, the role of Indian students in the occupation, and attempts to…

The increasing number of campus conflicts brought to court may have far-reaching implications and could mean a decline of academic freedom in the future. (IR)

Reviews the history of student activism at American universities from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the 19th-century abolitionist movement and antiwar movements in the 1930s and 1960s. Also discusses student activism at Kent State University (Ohio) and the events of May 4, 1970, when four students were killed in a confrontation…