With the significant rise in mental health challenges among college students, opportunities exist for educators to adapt curricula that incorporate a focus on student wellness. This study brings qualitative and descriptive insights to the growing body of quantitative research on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based practices (MBPs) for improving…

Teaching about systemic racism and the myth of white supremacy to the next cadre of public administrators is critical as it supports students' abilities to challenge dominant paradigms and center counternarratives; both serve a purpose in advancing toward a more just and equitable society. This paper offers insight into the development and…

Humility, in a variety of forms, has been examined in educational contexts in recent years. However, its association with a particular pedagogical method remains an unexplored area of inquiry. Likewise, social justice and student voice are a concern in international education arenas, including in higher education, but are not usually connected to…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the most important and feasible factors required for reform and successful inclusion of substance use prevention curriculum into aging-infused certificate and degree programs at 4-year universities. Methodology: This study employed a Delphi technique through three iterative rounds to gather data…

Women are increasingly present in the field of engineering, but despite a significant female presence, it has been found that the programs continue to make no reference to women scientists. In chemical engineering, for example, all the names of scientists mentioned in the programs belong to men only. To test this hypothesis of over-representation…

Student evaluations of teaching and learning are playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of high-quality, student-centred education. Insights into student perceptions of their learning experience provide important information that can be used to inform course design and development. The majority of course evaluations take the form…

Over the course of the past three decades, scholars and practitioners lamented low levels of political engagement among college students (National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, 2012; Thomas et al., 2019). The civic engagement movement formed to address concerns about student preparedness for engaging in American…

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, there was a sudden shift from face-to-face instruction to distance learning (DL) in all schools and universities in Saudi Arabia. This abrupt transition was associated with some challenges and changes. This study aims to find out whether instructors, departments and/or colleges at Saudi universities have changed,…

Student debt, some might contend, is a purely financial matter and begins long before students ever arrive on a college campus. Responding to composition's relative disinterest, this article looks to begin the conversation regarding debt's place in the teaching of writing. Against the transactional mechanism lenders insist it to be, debt, as the…

Within the literature on decolonizing the curriculum, a clear distinction is frequently made between diversity and decolonization. While "decolonization" entails dismantling colonial forms of knowledge, including practices that racialize and categorize, "diversity" is a policy discourse that advocates for adding different sorts…

Climate change and the resulting and related environmental and humanitarian outcomes are some of the fundamental challenges of the 21st century. Green chemistry, a relatively recent addition to the chemistry family, aims to reframe chemistry so that chemistry ethically and responsibly attends to its own environmental and human health impacts and…

This paper outlines and details historical L2 curriculum development for segments of China's State education system over a ten-year period beginning with the start of the Sino -- Foreign joint programs classes in 2011. A two-year post assessment from 2015-2017. Tracking students continuing test results for both the CET (College English Test)…

When the author began teaching in Paraguay, he ran into a series of classroom challenges familiar to English teachers around the world: a classroom overflowing with students, a large range of English abilities, and insufficient textbooks and traditional teaching resources. The activity described in this article is a one-size-fits-all activity that…

Drawing upon a two-year study of student-veterans in college writing classrooms, this article analyzes three types of courses developed in an effort to respond to increased military-affiliated student enrollments: veterans-only, veteran-focused, and veteran-friendly. The article concludes with recommendations for an asset-based approach to…

Increasing enrolment of Chinese students has become a key feature of internationalisation for Western universities, but there is limited research into how curriculum internationalisation affects Chinese students' learning experiences. Using the typologies of curriculum internationalisation as a framework, this paper explores and compares how…