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Campus Educational Contexts and Civic Participation: Organizational Links to Collective Action
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 86, Number 1, January/February 2015
- pp. 38-70
- 10.1353/jhe.2015.0003
- Article
- Additional Information
Proponents of civic engagement extol the virtues of the college experience for enhancing students’ capacities for democratic participation, yet few studies have examined the organizational contexts of such actions. This article applies theory regarding social movements in organizations to highlight the relationship between campus curricular offerings and campus collective action.