Student protest
Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities (university or civil or both) and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem. Protest forms include but are not limited to: sit-ins, occupations of university offices or buildings, strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Jan Palach's,[1] and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring[2] and Kostas Georgakis' protest against the Greek junta of 1967–1974.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
"School strike" redirects here. For climate-related schools strikes, see School Strike for Climate.Response and aftermath[edit]
Over time, university tolerance of campus protests have grown; while protests occurred before the 20th century they were more likely to be "crushed... with an iron fist... by university leaders" than by mid-20th century, when they have become much more common and tolerated. By the early 21st century, the university response to campus protest in the United States is much more likely to be negotiations, and willingness to yield at least to some of the student demands.[34] There was a resurgence of student activism in the United States in 2015.[35] In Germany, tuition in public universities were abolished in response to student protests between 2006 and 2016.[36][37]
University response to student activism and campus protests can still be much harsher in less liberal countries like China or Taiwan.[28] In 1980 student protests in South Korea were violently suppressed by the military (the Gwangju uprising).[38] As recently as in 1989 a large scale student demonstration in China that moved off-campus, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, was met with deadly force.[39]