Previous literature suggests that students who feel unsafe in their academic settings experience harmful academic, social, and psychological ramifications. With an alarming increase in school shootings, violence, and media coverage, the political discourse surrounding gun violence and strategies to ensure safety on college campuses has become…

Exploring built pedagogy, one college set out to disrupt structure and create a community of research by erecting a teaching lab yurt and inviting faculty to create a cohort of action researchers teaching in the yurt. The round shape of the yurt facilitated a more democratized learning environment where students found themselves a greater part of…

In recent years, smart classrooms have been widely constructed in colleges and universities. To help the design of student-centred smart classroom in compliance with students' information literacy levels and enable all students to adapt to the smart classroom smoothly, this study utilised a quantitative method to investigate the information…

This study used data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education to consider whether college student employment was associated with changes in two measures of students' diversity attitudes: openness to diversity and challenge and universal-diverse orientation. Additionally, this study considered whether interactions with diverse peers…

This study examined the bidirectional longitudinal relations between achievement goals and academic performance among Chinese college students. The Achievement Goal Questionnaire was administered to a sample of Chinese college students (N = 311) in their first and third years of study. Their end-of-term grade point averages were used as measures…

Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Self-Determination Theory (SDT), this study investigates the influence of cultural context on how students interpret and respond to their teachers' actions and classroom dynamics, which contribute to either need satisfaction or frustration. The research underscores the importance of understanding students'…

Increasing interest among faculty, researchers, educators, and scholars in Open Educational Resources (OER) as significant tools for promoting openness, equity, and quality of education in both distance and face-to-face pedagogical settings has continually generated research attention on OER and Open Educational Practices. The motivational roles…

Objective: College students, especially females, reported worsened mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. This multigroup comparative study aimed to explore stress and resilience of female college students between in-person and online enrolments, as well as with and without mental health diagnoses, at early and later stages of the pandemic.…

The metaverse is a network of interoperable and persistent 3-D virtual worlds where users can coexist and interact through mechanisms, such as gamification, nonfungible tokens, and cryptocurrencies. Although the metaverse is a theoretical construct today, many collaborative virtual reality (CVR) applications have emerged as potential components of…

This article aims to evaluate the moderating effect exerted by students' perceptions of the university support environment on the relationship between their respective entrepreneurial characteristics and entrepreneurial intentions. The subjective norms associated with the university support environment encompass perceptions on teaching activities,…

Objective: This study assessed changes (in relation to smoking status) in tobacco use, attitudes toward TFC policies, and tobacco use risk knowledge by applying a three Wave repeated cross-sectional assessment. Participants: Participants were students at Wave 1 (n = 2,169), Wave 2 (n = 2,576), and Wave 3 (n = 2,169) and faculty at Wave 1 (n =…

Purpose: This study aims to examine the relationship between sustainability initiatives and student satisfaction in accommodation services at the University of Northampton. Design/methodology/approach: Four main sustainability factors, including energy consumption, waste management, environmental responsibility and green infrastructure, are…

The formulation of a sense of community (SOC) among students has received significant attention in the literature in recent years. However, digitally enhanced learning and COVID-19 have amplified the challenges vis-à-vis connecting students and making them feel involved and recognized in virtual learning ecologies for higher educational…

The present study explored LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other non heterosexual/cisgender identities) engineering students' navigation of engineering educational contexts and reported the impacts of the engineering educational culture on LGBTQ+ students' well-being. Drawing from a sample of ten LGBTQ+ university students…

Deans of students are the main points of contact between the university management and the students they serve in Kenyan universities. This position exposes them to acts of hostility both online and offline. This article explores the experiences of deans of students in Kenyan universities with cyberbullying. It specifically analyses the prevalence…