Implications of theoretical perspectives for student affairs

Over the last 15 years I have had the pleasure to correspond with Philip G Altbach on different aspects of his half-century of research into student activism. On a number of occasions, I would take him up on something he wrote repeatedly in the 1980s and 1990s. Namely, Altbach used to argue that "student activism is a highly complex and many-faceted phenomenon for which there is no overarching theoretical explanation".

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Human Science Research Council SA
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2026-05-22
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https://doi.org/10.14749/32378049
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Academic Freedom and Politics
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Implications of theoretical perspectives for student affairs

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Implications of theoretical perspectives for student affairs

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Abstract

Over the last 15 years I have had the pleasure to correspond with Philip G Altbach on different aspects of his half-century of research into student activism. On a number of occasions, I would take him up on something he wrote repeatedly in the 1980s and 1990s. Namely, Altbach used to argue that "student activism is a highly complex and many-faceted phenomenon for which there is no overarching theoretical explanation".

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