"We Struggle to Get a Voice Heard": The Experiences of Student Leaders.

Abstract

We examine the experiences of student leaders working with student affairs educators (SAEs). Framed by social exchange, we identified three themes highlighting how, from the perspectives of student leaders, (in)actions contribute to complicating the working relationship between student leaders and SAEs: (a) deprioritizing and devaluing student leaders' work, (b) enforcing the status quo, and (c) performative acts of advocacy. Implications focus on how to establish, build, and sustain mutually beneficial relationships between student leaders and SAEs.