Required gateway courses in higher education present ongoing challenges to student persistence, retention, and degree completion. Adaptive learning technology (ALT) offers personalized support and generates learning analytics that can inform faculty teaching and course design practices. This qualitative case study examined faculty experiences with…

Educational outcomes for looked-after children on the autism spectrum are significantly poorer than for autistic children not being looked-after by their local authority (those 'in care'), and poorer than for most other groups of children with special educational needs who are looked-after in England. Such poor outcomes have led to calls for…

This study investigated Chinese international students' sense of belonging by exploring the cultural and cognitive validity of a commonly used sense of belonging instrument, namely the Hoffman et al.'s (2002) Sense of Belonging Scale. Cognitive interviewing procedures supplemented with open-ended questions were administered to 20 sophomore- and…

Substance use in America remains a public health crisis, especially given the ongoing opioid epidemic and an alarming spike in overdose related deaths. Institutions of higher education have a unique opportunity to provide realistic measures of sustained substance use disorder (SUD) recovery through collegiate recovery programs (CRP) that employ…

There are nearly 1.7 million single-mother students who make up a substantial portion of the undergraduate student population. Only 8% of single-mother students graduate with a degree or certificate within 6 years of enrollment. There are multiple factors identified in the literature that contribute to low success and persistence rates. Factors…

For more than a decade, critical service-learning and community-engagement authors and scholar-activists have been pushing for a more race aware, critically informed view of the work of community-based learning. These calls encourage, support and validate the hard work of individuals across campuses who teach and practice in ways that support…

This article presents the author's experiences of practicing as an art therapist with a visible disability working alongside disabled art therapy participants in two settings--one that operates from the social model of disability and the other from the medical model of disability. Based on autoethnographic research, the author describes community…

Using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and the Department of Education Government Accountability Office (DOE GAO), this study examines the prevalence of hate crimes directed at Muslim, Sikh, and Jewish students and explores whether hate crimes increased during the 2016 presidential…

Many school-age children who come to the United States from other countries find the shift in home, community, and institutional constructs to be a challenge (Cairney, 2002; Derderian-Aghajanian & Wang, 2012). Despite this, these children and their families bring significant strengths, resources, and rich funds of knowledge to the table. This…

The article presents the replicable model of Curriculum and Community Based Academic Learning with Research, Action and Service (CCBALwRAS) through a framework of '2 Cs', the 'curriculum' and the 'community'. It puts forth a support strategy for participatory community-based interventions by formally inducting higher education institutions (HEIs)…

During the 2020-2021 school year, more than 60% of college students met the criteria for at least one mental health problem, according to the Healthy Minds Study, which collects data from 373 campuses nationwide. Since then, many colleges have developed mission statements that seek to ensure and preserve access to higher education and success for…

Universities, both in Canada and throughout the global North, are predicated on empiricist and positivist understandings of knowledge and knowledge production which are communicated and strengthened through research practices and protocols. Drawn from a larger study exploring research leadership among accomplished academic staff, this paper…

As Latinx populations are growing throughout the United States and Latinx students are graduating from high school and enrolling in college in noticeably higher numbers than in the past, it has become evident that transfer and degree completion rates are not rising in line with enrollment numbers. The purpose of this study was to examine and try…

This paper explores 'decolonial love' as a pedagogy of care among 16 first generation Black immigrants enrolled in predominantly White four- year colleges in the United States and Canada. The term 'decolonial love' and extensions of this original conceptualization focus on radical self-love and resistance to colonial oppression. Scholars have also…

This basic qualitative interview study explored the perceptions of 18 gender-expansive individuals for whom gender identity exists beyond society's binary construct of gender. Participants have been or are employees or students at a four-year public higher education institution in southern California. This study examined participants' perceptions…