%0 Journal Article
%T Low
%A Elizabeth M. Lee
%J Social Currents
%@ 2329-4973
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2329496518781354
%X While scholars have developed stronger understandings of challenges facing low-socioeconomic status (SES) students, there has been very little examination of students¡¯ advocacy on their own behalves. The last 10 years have seen a substantial and rapid increase in low-SES students organizing campus groups to provide safe space, activism, and/or education around class inequality at selective and highly selective colleges and universities. By utilizing literature on other student activist movements, I make two contributions. First, I extend the existing work on student activism to include a contemporary and growing movement around socioeconomic inequality that is¡ªunlike many previous campus movements¡ªlargely operating independently of a broader, noncampus social movement. Second, I detail the challenges students face in seeking changes on their own campuses, which I argue are both specific to their roles as activists and also exacerbated, in many cases, by their positions as low-SES students. These findings, therefore, help to further illuminate the ways that socioeconomic inequality is maintained on college campuses over time and also to highlight a growing campus-based social movement
%K higher education
%K socioeconomic status
%K race
%K gender
%K and class
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329496518781354