Changing Nature of Campus Protests Frustrates Administrators

by E Wayne Ross on March 13, 2012

The Chronicle: In California and Beyond, the Changing Nature of Campus Protests Frustrates Administrators

Campus protests don’t always arise locally or focus on discrete issues or demands. Sometimes, they’re not even led by students.

Those characteristics vex some senior student-affairs administrators in the University of California system, where a tumultuous combination of steep tuition increases and the high-profile national “Occupy” movement resulted in demonstrations that have ensnared at least two campuses—Berkeley and Davis—in lawsuits.