Despite American Muslim students' increasing population on college campuses, there remains limited research in understanding the Islamic campus hate crimes phenomena from their lived experiences. Hermeneutic research is needed to explore the recurrent happenstance of violence, increased prejudiced encounters against Muslim students, and increased…

The lack of diversity of institutional leaders and faculty in private biological science graduate schools has created barriers for Black, Brown, and Indigenous graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and women who pursue science careers in biomedical research. The disparity in the leadership of these populations has impacted the ability of…

This mixed-methods study examined the factors contributing to international student sense of belonging on three U.S. campuses, particularly upon their arrival to their campus and during a global pandemic. This three-article dissertation discusses the major findings that were identified in the data. Article 1 highlights the recurring theme of…

As a thirty plus year Black American educator in the Midwestern United States, I have experienced racial bias. I felt it affected my career advancement. As a current educational administrator, I wondered if others have experienced racial bias and if they felt it affected their career as well. In this phenomenological study, the voices of…

A humility workbook intervention's impact on relational humility, cultural humility and defensiveness scores were tested in a pretest/posttest design in a population of Christian doctoral level supervision students. Relational humility was operationalized by the Relational Humility Scale (Davis et al., 2011), cultural humility was operationalized…

This study examined the ways in which White teachers talk about facilitating conversations about race in their classrooms. Through semistructured interviews of eight teachers in a suburban school district in Central California, information was gathered about how teachers talk about race or avoid talking about race in their classrooms and what…

This qualitative study explored the impediments, social adjustments challenges, and classroom experiences of F-1 international students enrolled at community colleges in the Midwest region of the United States with at least one semester completed after their arrival. Through their respective accounts, the participants shared their positive and…

Black women's political and social position in the United States has afforded them with a unique set of experiences as American citizens. It has been shown that Black women in the US are typically viewed through a narrow lens of salient, racialized and gendered stereotypes, and as a result struggle to be seen as capable professionals and…

Today polarized attitudes and aptitudes have created a subtle but steady paradigm shift in how equity, diversity, and stakeholders see inclusivity (EDI) issues. As a result, focusing on critical aspects of equity relationships and the fallout from discriminatory attitudes towards marginalized groups has become ever more needed. While diversity…

The purpose of this sacred ethnography is to examine the implications of living at the intersections of dis/ability, race, gender, sexuality, spirituality/religion, and class, while persisting through doctoral education in what is referred to as the United States. To further help describe the concrete ways institutions of higher education's…

As state educational standards increasingly emphasize cultural awareness, this study explores how White elementary school teachers in predominantly White schools can be better supported to meet these expectations and enhance their self-efficacy and cultural competence. This study was conducted at a small rural elementary school on the coast of…

Dominant systems of White masculinity--or attitudes, behaviors, and ideologies rooted in White masculine dominance alongside homophobia, misogyny, and racism--within higher education impact how students frame and understand their identities and experiences during their undergraduate careers. For sexual-minority men and transmasculine individuals,…

Dietetics plays a pivotal role in maintaining health among all human beings (Slawson et al., 2013). Registered dietitians serve as the official, legally recognized healthcare providers for dietetics guidance (Davis & Affenito, 2014). The racial and ethnic profile of registered dietitians in the United States is largely White, lacks…

The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of LGBTQ Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students at a large public university in the south-western United States, as it relates to the culture and climate of the program and campus. The LGBTQ community faces its own unique health disparities. Research in medicine suggests improving the…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how African American women mentor leaders in higher education describe current or past mentoring strategies for mentoring other African American women in higher education in the southeastern United States. The conceptual model used in this study was high-quality mentoring…