Student Activism

The university created a committee to examine the events of student-led protests on campus in April 2024, which ultimately found that school officials acted within their rights to break up demonstrations.

Despite the potential for expulsion or arrest — and deportation for some — St. Louis college student activists work to build coalitions and protect themselves as they prepare for future protests.

This January, Wash U students can join a new on-campus chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Student leaders want the campus to become more politically involved.

Before Parkway West graduate Elizabeth Franklin turned 18, she wrote for the school paper as a way to inform – and challenge – those around her.

Teenagers and young adults have experienced record-breaking temperatures for much of their lives. Frustrated with the slow pace of progress among their parents’ generation, some young Missourians are taking action in their communities.

Students in St. Louis raised their voices on Saturday morning to protest racial profiling and systemic police violence against African-Americans.More than…