Student activism  

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Student activism is work done by students to effect political, environmental, economic, or social change. It has often focused on making changes in schools, such as increasing student influence over curriculum or improving educational funding. In some settings, student groups have had a major role in broader political events , as reflected in the youth activism article.

See also

• Youth voice
• Youth activism
• Youth empowerment
• Youth participation
• List of social movements
• Youth rights
• International Students Day
• LGBT Student Movement
• Town and gown
• Jeltoqsan
• Counterculture of the 1960s

Organizations

• 180/Movement for Democracy and Education
• Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
• The International Human Trafficking Institute
• Australian Student Environment Network
• Campus Antiwar Network
• Canadian Federation of Students
• Energy Action Coalition
• The Freechild Project
• Federation of Student Nationalists
• Idealist on Campus, a program of Action Without Borders
• Kyoto Now!
• National Youth Rights Association
• North American Students of Cooperation
• Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund
• New York Public Interest Research Group
• Muslim Students' Association
• People & Planet (UK's biggest student campaigning network)
• Secular Student Alliance
• Students Coalition Against War
• Students for a Democratic Society
• Students for a Free Tibet
• Students for Justice in Palestine
• Student/Farmworker Alliance
• Students for Sensible Drug Policy
• Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
• United Students Against Sweatshops
• Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
• National Students Federation Pakistan
• Baloch Students Organization
• United States Student Association