Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In recent months, protests at US colleges and universities-replete with sit-ins, anti-war slogans, tent villages, and arrests of students-have inspired comparisons with 1960sera activism.1 During that convulsive period, students responded to the Vietnam War by turning their campuses into sites for civil disobedience and forums for free speech.In response, politicians like Ronald Reagan decried the permissiveness of college and university leaders and denounced student agitators.2 Those who went to college in the 1960s see obvious parallels between past and present.3 The summoning of police to disperse protestors has polarized the public and raised questions about the limits of democracy.4 Student activism has renewed disagreement over the meaning of higher education.And conflicts over free speech have spilled far beyond campus, with congressional hearings effectively ending the careers of several college presidents.5 Such conflicts and uncertainties are clearest in times of upheaval.Yet they are always lurking beneath the surface in higher education.What does it mean to live in 1 John Semley, "'Police Raids Are Nothing New': Student Protesters from 1960s See History Repeating Itself, " Guardian,
Source: History of Education Quarterly
DOI: 10.1017/heq.2024.38
Authors: A.J. Angulo, Jack Schneider
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4405247435