scholarly journals Student Movements Against the Imperial University: Toward a Genealogy of Disability Justice in U.S. Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Jaffee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Movements

scholarly journals A Perspective on Higher Education Through the Lens of a Student Activist

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Saron Gebresellassi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Undocumented Students ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
High Tuition ◽  
Justice Movements

Both historically and present day, students and youth have been at the forefront of social justice movements. Environmental justice, defence of undocumented students, whistleblower protection, international solidarity and labour rights are among a myriad of issues which have emerged to expand the range and scope of equitable education politics within student movements. This commentary provides a perspective on higher education through the lens of one student activist. This reflection shares some thoughts on the implications of high tuition fees for marginalized communities and emphasizes the importance of youth activism in advancing the struggle for accessible postsecondary education and socioeconomic justice domestically and abroad.

Student Movements and User Fees: Trends in the Effect of Social Background and Family Income on Access to Mexican Higher Education, 1984-1996

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Post
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
User Fees ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Income Quartile

The 1999 strike at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) mobilized students around the demand for free public higher education to promote equality of opportunity. In the wake of that movement, it is necessary to evaluate the effects of user fees and of free tuition in promoting equality of opportunity. For this purpose, I used the Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto to gauge the impact of family background and household income on the chances for attending higher education since 1984. Despite the low user fees charged in Mexico's public universities during the period, the data show that selectivity by family income worsened. Private universities, always selective, remained so. More worrisome is the fact that, by the mid 1990s, young people living in the poorest income quartile of households were less than ten times as likely to attend public higher education, as compared with children from the richest quartile of households. Free tuition in itself is unlikely to promote equality of access, because the beneficiaries of free tuition--increasingly--came from upper income families. / La huelga de 1999 en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) mobilizó a los estudiantes en torno a la exigencia de una educación pública gratuita que promoviera una igualdad en la oportunidad a acceder a instituciones de educación superior. En el despertar de ese movimiento, es necesario evaluar los efectos de los pagos del usuario y de la enseñanza gratuita en la promoción de dicha igualdad de oportunidad. Por ende, utilicé la Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto para calcular el impacto que han tenido el trasfondo social familiar y los ingresos de la familia en cuanto al acceso a la educación avanzada desde 1984. A pesar que durante el período ya mencionado las universidades públicas de México cobran muy poco al estudiante, las estadisticas ejemplifican que las universidades públicas no aceptan a los estudiantes a base de los ingresos familiares del estudiante. Las universidades privadas, que siempre han sido selectivas, continúan siéndolo. Lo que preocupa más es que, para mediados de la década de los noventa, la juventud que vive en los sectores más pobres ha perdido la oportunidad diez veces más de asistir a universidades públicas que los jóvenes que viven en sectores más adinerados de la ciudad. No es probable que la enseñanza gratuita en sí promueva la igualdad de acceso a universidades públicas, ya que los beneficiarios de la enseñanza gratuita--cada vez más--provienen de familias con altos ingresos.

scholarly journals Az egyetemi és akadémiai ifjúság politikai szerepvállalása 1830–1880 között

Gerundium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
László Szögi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
National Language ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Youth Movements ◽  
National Movements ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The 19Th Century

The Political Involvement of the University- and Academic Youth between 1830 and 1880. The institutional network of the higher education in Hungary was very diverse on the turn of the 18th and 19th century and in the first part of the 19th century. In the multi-national and multi-confessional country, 88 institutions provided higher than medium level education. Most of these institutions were related to the historical denomination but besides them several state higher educational institutions existed. We reported about the student movements of these schools in this paper. In the first part of the 19th century the Holy Alliance’s system prohibited the foundation of student movements, although, in most of the institutions, reading circles and literature student associations were formed in which the leaders of the future national movements played an important role. The period of the revolution and the fight for freedom of 1848–1849 was significant regarding the student movements as well, because at most universities the studentry listed their requests aiming not only the reform of student life but the social changes as well. After the defeat of the freedom fight it was not possible to form student associations for ten years. But from the 1860s the battle for the national language of higher education marked the Hungarian youth movements. After the Austro- Hungarian Compromise, the studentry’s activity decreased, although they spoke in some political questions. For example, in 1867–1877, during the time of the Russian-Turkish war, the students in Pest and Cluj- Napoca stood against the Russians and not the Turks. This action produced that the university youth got back 36 valuable medieval codices from the Turks which were stolen in 1526 from the Royal Library in Buda.

Higher Education Policies

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-96
Author(s):  
Donatella della Porta ◽  
Lorenzo Cini ◽  
César Guzmán-Concha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Higher Education Policies ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter discusses long-term and short-term political-economic changes occurring in the field of higher education (HE) related to the recent wave of student protests. It offers a historical overview of the trend of marketization affecting the HE sectors of Chile, England, Italy, and Quebec in recent decades. The four regions under investigation cover different HE systems, from those where the role of the state is still prominent (Italy and Quebec), and the commodification trend is not so strong, to others in which the market, along with the commodification of the sector, have acquired greater relevance over recent decades (England and Chile). The chapter argues that the different pace and form of the marketization process have heavily affected the ways in which students mobilized in terms of action repertoires, political goals and demands, and organizational structures. Exploring the variety and the institutional differences in the field of HE helps one assess the variety of the student movements embedded in such fields.

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