The Perception of Progress: A Conceptual Framework of Institutional Responses to Campus Protests

• In Event: Institutionalized Inequity: Experiences of and Responses to Campus Protest

Abstract

The success of campus protests has largely been studied through students’ tactics and strategies. However, the institutional responses to these protests has been underexplored. This paper blends theories around power and resource dependence with critical race theory to group institutional responses as apathetic, short-term, co-opting, and partnering to student protests.

Author

• Katherine Cho, UCLA