What is at risk in campus activism?: Learning as part of progressive social change in U.S. and Indian higher education.

This paper studies student activism within higher education, examining the associated risks in varied cultural and historical contexts. Utilizing case studies from the United States on environmental sustainability within a business school and entrenched caste-based hierarchies in India, we describe how student activism was enacted to transform infrastructures of higher education. This study shows how students navigate institutional norms and power structures, and how risk shaped students' practices of activism and their learning.