This descriptive qualitative study explored the professional lived experiences of Latina/o faculty at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities in New England. With only 3% of full-time professors identified as Latina/o, recruiting them has become a concern for higher education. This study was grounded in the community cultural wealth model (Yosso,…

What do strategic and collaborative partnerships look like? Hora and Millar (2011) defined three types of partnerships, which are defined in this brief: (1) limited; (2) coordinated; and (3) collaborative. Presented in this brief are the following: (1) Partnership scenarios; (2) Leveraging strategic institutional partnerships to diversify the…

Working conditions have been shown to have a significant influence on teachers' retention decisions. Despite disparities between rates of retention for Teachers of Color (TOC) and their White peers, extant research related to links between working conditions and retention tends to treat teachers as a monolithic group. The goal of this study was to…

This essay documents approaches to growing honors affiliate faculties through community and university partnerships. The need for new strategies to prepare non-traditional faculties is shown by evidence that the student population is changing and by the critical responsibility honors programs have in the mentorship of diverse students.…

The purpose of this dissertation in practice (DiP) is to explore the relationship, if any, between the Mississippi Teacher Corps Graduate School experience and the expressed reasons of some of its teachers to either leave their placement school; teach in another critical-needs school in Mississippi, but not remain long-term; teach in another…

This article brings together a number of key issues that emerge in research around the problem of teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools. It offers a broad overview of the hard-to-staff schooling sector as discussed in recent academic literature and provides a context-specific overview of the literature around workforce shortages in…

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly and dramatically altered higher education, including changes to the workplace. Many staff and faculty positions were eliminated, while other employees experienced furloughs or reduced work hours. This study examines the experiences of 1,080 higher education professionals from 782 institutions of higher education in…

This study aims to examine the influences of Personal Value and Job Satisfaction dimensions on Professional Commitment. The research was conducted at 33 private universities in West Jakarta and used as many as 288 lecturers who had not yet had the Certificate of Functional Position. The statistical analysis technique was used the Partial Least…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how Black faculty describe their experiences of belonging and how those experiences influence employee engagement and intention to stay at the community college. The theoretical framework focused on the belongingness theory and used a conceptual framework of belonging and the Black…

Job satisfaction and intent to stay in a nursing faculty position are critical in enhancing nursing education quality and addressing the current nursing shortage by attracting future nurses to the workforce. The unique challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic could have affected faculty members' job satisfaction and decisions regarding remaining…

Teachers are the most important school-related factor impacting students' academic outcomes. To meet the needs and potential of all students, North Carolina must be able to recruit and retain high-quality teachers. North Carolina continues to experience challenges with vacancies and positions filled with teachers who are not fully certified in…

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether faculties' affective professional commitment mediates the relationship between transformational leadership behaviors of university management, perceived organizational support, and faculties' institutional citizenship behavior. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire from a…

Despite efforts to increase diversity in NASPAA-accredited MPA programs, men continue to hold most faculty positions, even though women represent the majority of the MPA student body and earn doctoral degrees at similar rates to men. Previous research suggests this imbalance may stem from unequal workloads, perceptions of institutional climate,…

Purpose: This study aims to provide a causal framework for teacher burnout (BO) and work engagement (WE) by examining the factors that contribute to it and evaluating how progressive education (PE) affects teachers' performance in Higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a multi-stage sampling technique…

Traditional teacher education and alternative teacher preparation programs struggle to recruit and retain prospective and early-career educators of color. To address this challenge, Jalene Tamerat and Clifford Lee recount their experiences as teachers and teacher educators-of color. They propose a reframing of pedagogies, curricula, and…