This study aimed to recommend student success management strategies that respond to first-generation students' needs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). HBCUs play a key role in providing access to higher education for black students. While significantly contributing, HBCUs face challenges in ensuring academic achievement,…

The importance of student mental health as an institutional priority came into stark relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. The total disruption of collegiate life over the two years highlighted the links between student mental health and institutional success. The traditional institutional response assigning support to students with mental health…

This paper addresses the urgent reality of the environmental crisis, underscoring its irreversible nature and the critical need for transformative action. It explores the complex intersections of capitalism, consumer culture, and climate justice, highlighting the profound societal challenges these forces create. Through case studies of two…

In this randomized controlled trial with controls for student characteristics, the authors used a loss-aversion strategy to test whether students achieve greater learning gains from combining research-based instructional strategies with loss aversion. Students in the control group began the class with no grades and built their course average by…

Universities are rethinking their teaching and research programs and their whole third mission in response to the framework provided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But how do universities walk the talk? What are the main strategies and activities undertaken by universities to implement the 2030 Agenda? While the higher education…

Integrative transformative learning in a feminist perspective asks students to engage in potentially troublesome and unsettling debates, to confront their own privilege and situated knowledges, and to experiment with conventional boundaries for knowledge production. We introduce the idea of the "tentacular classroom" grounded in the work…

I begin in this article with an examination of James Baldwin as a distinct curricular voice whose work opens a dialogue interrogating whiteness as curriculum. In a series of essays, "The White Problem," "On Being White … And Other Lies," "The White Man's Guilt," and "White Racism or World Community," Baldwin…

University educators are encouraged to be innovative in their teaching practice, and are often recognised and rewarded for these innovations. However, the effective dissemination and consequent adoption of such innovations is still relatively ineffective, despite the development of diverse dissemination frameworks and strategies. The literature…

The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged many to engage with determining what is most effective in the realm of teaching and learning and how we can negotiate what we have done in the past with what makes sense for the future. In proposing a framework in which to encourage the community of physical education teacher educators to redefine physical…

Independent schools are increasingly looking to research as a strategy for building equitable systems and practices, through the creation of an embedded researcher position. This commentary grapples with how independent schools are building internal research capacity find. Using a self-study methodology with interviews, job document review, and…

Academic mentoring has taken its rightful place alongside teaching for supporting student success. However, mentorship in higher education is complex, contextual, and laborious, as well as under-researched and not consistently recognized. Mentoring by design-focused on developmental learning that can empower and transform participants--embeds…

This quantitative descriptive study aims to identify the intervention strategies used in Alabama's public high schools and obtain the school principals' perceived effectiveness of math intervention strategies to help students perform at high levels on the math portion of the ACT. The research team sent a survey to 316 Alabama public high school…

This quantitative descriptive study aims to identify the intervention strategies used in Alabama's public high schools and obtain the school principals' perceived effectiveness of math intervention strategies to help students perform at high levels on the math portion of the ACT. The research team sent a survey to 316 Alabama public high school…

The problem addressed in this research study was that strategies used by literacy coaches to train teachers to improve elementary level reading instruction are often not effective. The purpose of this qualitative narrative analysis study was to gain insight into the perspectives of teachers and literacy coaches in one school district in South…

Purpose: Internationalisation is one of the significant manifestations of the ongoing transformation of doctoral education. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the perspectives of Portuguese universities and doctoral students regarding the importance of internationalisation and the strategies to achieve it in doctoral education.…