'Research is a major aspect and fundamental component of many social struggles and movements for change' [Choudry, A. 2013a. "Activist Research Practice: Exploring Research and Knowledge Production for Social Action." Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes 9 (1): 128 151. doi:10.18740/S4G01K, 128]. For Palestinians, research and knowledge…

Whilst Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 has influenced education in various ways, major reforms perceived as promoting mainland control have been resisted. For two decades, Hong Kong's educational autonomy under the 'one country, two systems' formula was thus largely maintained. This changed radically with the response to the…

In this article, we will argue that students played an important role at several crucial junctures of modern Czech history, which secured them a central position after 1989 in the new democratic model of higher education governance. However, over the last two decades students have largely lost this position owing to several factors: the growing…

When these inequities began to change in the 20th century, due in part to the sweeping court-ordered integration following Brown v. Board of Education and the simultaneous expansion of public colleges and universities, all citizens began to gain access to educational achievement and, as a result, true access to the American power structure. The…

The confrontation techniques used by today's student protesters to bring about change have often proved damaging to higher education. (Editor)

In address to Association of American Colleges (Houston, Texas, Jan. 1970), author calls for rededication of students to learning, faculty to the role of teaching, administrators to awareness of new responsibility and trustees to sincere protection of the college. (IR)

Advocates of corporate governance reform hailed passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 as a long-overdue raising of the accountability bar for corporate directors. Although SOX, as the law is widely known, does not legally apply to nonprofit boards, it has profoundly influenced the way many trustees, especially current and former corporate…

Beleaguered administrators and faculty who submit to student power" as a way of defusing student unrest and an indication of educational reform are compromising their authority and the future of democratic education. (IR)

This essay, describing events surrounding a student demonstration at the University of Massachusetts, provides an understanding of the mechanics by which the confrontation came into being, and analyzes relevant opinions and attitudes of students. In 1968, the university's student majority supported radical student leaders in a tactical switch from…

Suggests several research needs related to conflict management in universities, which could be met by students of public administration. (JH)

Discusses activism among college and university trustees, characterized by assertion of authority in administrative matters, often in direct conflict with academic leaders. Suggests a parallel with investor capitalism, in which corporate owners may become active in organizational governance, and warns that constituent passivity in these…

It would be easy to believe now that the student activism of the 1960's was an unpleasant aberration, quick to develop and almost equally quick to subside. However, recent events indicate that the student movement never quite ended. Today's student see greater gains from recourse to the courts and to the legislature. Success in gaining…