The Role of Graduate Student Unions in the Higher Education Landscape

Whitford, Heidi

doi:10.1002/he.20102

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“…Analyzing predictors of engagement in Black Lives Matter and DACA movements among Black and Latinx students, Hope, Keels, and Durkee (2016) also reveal variations across gender and race in whether students took part in these activist efforts, pointing to different psychosocial factors that promote activist involvement. While most studies focus on undergraduate student activism, other work has focused on the strategies of graduate students activists, primarily around efforts to unionize and creating a shared identity as marginalized workers (Rhoades & Rhoads, 2002; Rhoads, 1998b; Rhoads & Rhoades, 2005; Whitford, 2014). Taken together, student activism and student identity processes are intertwined and matter at both undergraduate and graduate levels (Kezar et al, 2017).…”

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Defining ourselves: Exploring our leader and activist identities as Asian American women doctoral students.

Leigh¹,

Pak²,

Phuong³

2021

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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Student leadership and activism on college campuses has received more widespread attention in recent years, with attention to how student identities inform these organizing efforts. But, how students make sense of their leadership and activism practices is less understood, particularly in graduate student contexts and for different marginalized identities. Through collaborative autoethnography, the authors focus on how being Asian American women has shaped our leadership development and activist stances as doctoral students. Our findings demonstrate that in our efforts to create change as Asian American women, our engagement can only be understood through nonlinear and fluid processes for leadership and activism development, the role of institutional contexts, and the centering of racial and gender identities. This study contributes to how leadership and activist identities develop in graduate school while also highlighting complexities within Asian American women’s experiences.

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