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Exploring How Student Activists Experience Marginality and Mattering During Interactions with Student Affairs Professionals
- College Student Affairs Journal
- Southern Association for College Student Affairs
- Volume 37, Number 2, Fall 2019
- pp. 113-127
- 10.1353/csj.2019.0009
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
This study examines student activists’ interactions with student affairs professionals. Guided by Schlossberg’s (1989) marginality and mattering framework, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 student activists. Student activists experienced marginalization in three ways (1) misperceptions of student organizing, (2) not feeling heard, and (3) lacking authentic interaction with student affairs professionals. The article concludes with a discussion of the myriad of ways that student affairs professionals can positively engage with student activists.