A Time for Action: Relating Student Identity and Experiences with Activist Behaviors

• In Event: (Re)Considering Student Civic Engagement, Activism, and Coping Mechanisms

Abstract

Using data from an experimental item set administered with the NSSE in which more than three thousand respondents were asked about their involvement in activism, multilevel modeling was employed to measure the relationship between these behaviors and student backgrounds, high-impact practice participation, involvement in student activities, and institutional characteristics. characteristics.

Authors

• Demetri L. Morgan, Loyola University Chicago

• John Zilvinskis, SUNY Binghamton

• Brendan Dugan, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research