The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected higher education and higher education students around the world, but few studies of college students' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic have been conducted in Latin America. This study describes the COVID-19-related experiences and perspectives of Peruvian college students. We surveyed 3,427…

Reported hate crimes in the United States have increased rapidly in recent years, alongside an increase in general racial animus. Scholars have shown that the larger sociopolitical environment can directly impact the campus climate and experiences of all students, particularly students of color. However, little is known about how reports of hate…

This study investigates the socio-cultural experiences of Chinese international graduate students in a Canadian university. Specifically, this research explores the multiple challenges of their engagement in and out of the classroom as it relates to their language and culture. Qualitative data was collected by interviewing students and staff at…

The capacity to navigate conflict and solve problems will persist as an essential skill of the future, even if today's students will be doing jobs that haven't been invented yet. What are we doing in schools right now to ensure students have these skills? For nearly a decade, a program called Speak Truth has taught students to use their voices,…

Educational leadership preparation programs are tasked with advancing the development of future educational leaders' instructional capacities, including the ability to engage teachers in instructional conversations through instructional coaching. The educational leadership program studied here includes a mixed reality experience designed to…

This study uses qualitative methods to explore the subjective experience of Black girls within the formal educational context. Placing two theoretical approaches in conversation, this study applies a decolonial Black feminist epistemological framework to provide a narrative account of the experience of Black girls in their own words. Recognizing…

Interprofessional education (IPE) is essential to prepare healthcare students to work collaboratively once they enter the mental health workforce. However, there is limited research exploring IPE for students in a mental health service context. This study aimed to explore stakeholder experiences of a work-integrated learning (WIL) placement model…

Recent studies and media articles draw attention to gender imbalances in the music industry, both locally in Australia and globally. In Australia, there have been calls to overhaul tertiary music programmes to support and encourage female students into careers such as sound production, screen composition and contemporary music performance, where…

In the last few decades, the push for a more diverse student population has become commonplace across college campuses in the United States. With the demands of growing a more diverse student population, institutions have made widespread changes in policy over the years (Gist-Mackey, Wiley, & Erba, 2017). This dissertation examines the…

This qualitative study delved into the lived experiences of individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Specifically, the study investigated encounters with racial microaggressions among BIPOC counselor education faculty and doctoral students through a qualitative research approach. The research question was,…

The study of gender identity is becoming increasingly important to the field of higher education as younger generations of students enter their undergraduate programs. "As the number of college students identifying as transgender," gender nonconforming, or another gender identity, increases, "so too does the need to understand their…

A sometimes-neglected aim of education in the context of Maori, the tangata whenau (indigenous peoples) of Aotearoa New Zealand, is to build Maori students (tauira) as Maori, a process that supports them to navigate the academic world as well as enhancing their "Maoritanga" (Maori practices, beliefs, way of life). Notions of educational…

Online learning is a necessary teaching method for higher education institutions to cope with future unpredictable events. This study aims to investigate the impact of four forms of perceived quality in online interaction on the satisfaction of international students. The four types of online interaction considered are Teacher-Student Interaction…

Many students come to higher education with a history of trauma. College life may also expose students to traumatizing events. While the past decade has witnessed greater discussion of trauma-informed frameworks, it has not regularly been applied to the college environment. We advance the concept of a trauma-informed campus, where administrators,…

School physical education (PE) has been presented as a privilege for socially dominant groups recognized by their non-disabled bodies. This study aims to investigate the introduction of a 5-week Paralympic sports unit into the PE curriculum as an educational right for disabled students through its recognition as official knowledge representative…