ABSTRACT
Activism is used to mean the activist challenges to policies and practices, with the aim of achieving a social goal and without acquiring direct power for the activist. Specifically, college athlete activism, is “organized and collective forms of protest and conflict” that advances college athlete interests in the scope of their own college sport contexts. Activism on campus takes on different issues in different forms. Marches and protests prevailed across college campuses during the Civil Rights era and the Vietnam war. College athlete activism can take many forms. Stories of college athletes developing a passion for an issue or cause like childhood diseases after volunteering or bonding with a particular patient where athletes see the effects firsthand draw attention to serious situations far beyond their sport. College athletes are the key to system change that will advance a common good for all of college sports.
