This qualitative research study explored South Texas educators' perceptions of emotional intelligence after COVID-19. The study aimed to develop an understanding about teachers' emotional intelligence and perceived impacts on secondary teacher job proficiency. A qualitative approach employing a phenomenology methodology was used. Purposive…

This study aimed to investigate and describe the nonacademic decision-making experiences impacting U.S. Catholic college or university senior student affairs officers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 virus affected all institutions of higher education, and while most campuses had crisis response plans to guide decision-making, most…

The 2020 global pandemic forced a shift in focus in how school administrators responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. The level of urgency to ensure continuity of learning to digital and remote learning was unprecedented. This study investigated the experiences of new school principals who began their new principalship role during the COVID-19…

The purpose of this case-study investigated the role of the Pre-Freshman Summer Experience Program used for an Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) located at State University (SU) Upstate. More specifically, this study explored how students fared during the completion of the pre-freshman summer experience program throughout the ongoing COVID-19…

Teacher attrition has been a problem for many years and is continuing to grow at an alarming rate. The National Center for Education Statistics is estimating a shortfall of a million teachers by 2028. This can negatively impact student growth as school districts are forced to overfill classrooms to compensate for the teacher shortage. This purpose…

Positive student behavior is necessary, not only for a positive school culture, but for learning to take place, as students cannot learn in an environment where they do not feel safe, physically and/or emotionally, just as teachers cannot teach to the best of their ability. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of…

Higher education continues to evolve to serve students, communities and employers. Faculty members are an integral part of the service to these stakeholder groups. Existing research in higher education focuses on a variety of topics from both students? and faculty members? perspectives. Job satisfaction for faculty members is an area that has been…

Scope and method of study: The purpose of this national research study was to examine the effects that COVID-19 had on primary flight training at the collegiate level. This study was to determine how pilot production was affected by the pandemic and its associated lockdowns and mitigation measures to help see the ripple effects it caused and…

Transfer students are an increasingly important piece of the college athletics puzzle; however, little is known about the athletic identity of this important population and the effects of COVID on their commitment to sport. The purpose of this study was to measure and compare the athletic identity levels of NCAA student-athletes who transferred to…

When the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, public safety departments at four-year institutions of higher education in the U.S. were vulnerable. This vulnerability was because of the limited time they had to initiate their pandemic response to help protect their campus communities, and the need to create or revise institutional emergency response…

Over the past three years, there have been changes in learning observed due to COVID-19 pandemic-related disruptions that affected young learners who needed support during instruction, raising concerns about their learning progress. As such, this qualitative phenomenological study explored and described the parent and teacher perspectives on the…

Although school districts have prepared and planned for school crises for many years in response to the Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting tragedies, the COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges for school districts when dealing with educating students amid a pandemic. This qualitative phenomenological study examined…

Impacts to postsecondary institutions' enrollment and financial positions that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic were examined in this study. Taking a quantitative observational approach, enrollment trends as they relate to changes in tuition and fee revenue, unrestricted cash on hand, and unrestricted investments held are analyzed to determine…

The COVID pandemic was an unprecedented event declared a worldwide pandemic in March 2020, which caused a disruption among the graduate students and faculty instructors of colleges and universities nationwide. The purpose of this instrumental qualitative case study was to explore the challenges brought about by the phenomenon faced by faculty…

The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between principal self-efficacy, principal experience, and pandemic rebound rates to better understand the attributes of school principals who are leading schools at different rates of rebounding following the global pandemic in Oregon. In the 2022-2023 school year ODE used the calculation of…