student activist
Young cause champion
A student activist is someone enrolled in school—usually college or university—who organizes or participates in campaigns for social or political change.
The term often implies protest activity: marches, sit-ins, boycotts.
Student activists occupied the administration building to demand divestment.
The compound carries connotations ranging from idealistic to disruptive, depending on the speaker's politics.
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- rallyGathering for a cause
- marchRhythmic group walk
- free speechProtected verbal liberty
- campusInstitutional grounds and buildings
demonstration · picket · sit-in · organize · movement · grassroots · civil rights · social justice · boycott · petition · leaflet · megaphone · banner · chant · solidarity · uprising · radical · idealist
- activistsMartin Luther King Jr., protester, campaigner, demonstrator, Rosa Parks
- student governmentclass president, treasurer, vice president, secretary, representatives
- political prisonersprisoner of conscience, dissident, detainee, gulag prisoner, internee
student activistsilent majority
Presumed moderate, publicly mute multitude
fence-sitter · bystander · spectator · armchair critic · slacktivist
student activistuniversity administrator
College management official
tenured professor · school principal · campus security · old guard · corporate executive
student, students, study, studies, studied, studying, studious, studiously, studio