Issue Editors:
Christopher J. Broadhurst is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of New Orleans.

Georgianna L. Martin is an assistant professor of higher education and student affairs administration at the University of Southern Mississippi. She also serves as codirector of the Research Initiative on Social Justice in Education (RISE).

EDITORS' NOTES 1
Christopher J. Broadhurst, Georgianna L. Martin

1. Campus Activism in the 21st Century: A Historical Framing 3
Christopher J. Broadhurst
This chapter frames campus activism by introducing the historical movements that have been important for higher education since the 18th century to the present and exploring the connections and shared characteristics among these various movements.

2. The Role of Graduate Student Unions in the Higher Education Landscape 17
Heidi Whitford
Graduate student unionization efforts have made an indelible mark on the higher education milieu, as illustrated by the experiences of students who participated in this movement in recent years.

3. Collective Action on Campus Toward Student Development and Democratic Engagement 31
Adrianna Kezar, Dan Maxey
This chapter explores the ways faculty and staff work with students to support their activism as well as the way students tap faculty and staff to support their movements.

4. Campus-Based Organizing: Tactical Repertoires of Contemporary Student Movements 43
Cassie L. Barnhardt
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.

5. Performances of Student Activism: Sound, Silence, Gender, and Dis/ability 59
Penny A. Pasque, Juanita Gamez Vargas
This chapter explores the various performances of activism by students through sound, silence, gender, and dis/ability and how these performances connect to social change efforts around issues such as human trafficking, homeless children, hunger, and children

6. Development Through Dissent: Campus Activism as Civic Learning 73
J. Patrick Biddix
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.

7. Understanding and Improving Campus Climates for Activists 87
Georgianna L. Martin
This chapter synthesizes the common themes across chapters in this volume and argues that campus activists are an integral part of the higher education landscape.

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