Universal design for learning (UDL) is a pedagogical framework intended to promote accessibility and equity in learning environments, especially for students with disabilities. In UDL, instructors provide optionality and flexibility in the learning environment for representation, engagement, and expression, rather than expecting the learner to…

Purpose: While women earn an equal proportion of undergraduate degrees in biomedical engineering, there is a significant decline in female representation at the graduate and faculty levels. Prior studies suggest that an inclusive environment could increase female retention in engineering, and there has been increased interest in adding elements of…

Food insecurity is widespread among college students in the United States. CalFresh food benefits, known federally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, can help students in California pay for food, but may not reach all eligible students. This data point provides estimates of CalFresh participation rates among community…

All states require prospective public-school teachers to satisfy licensure requirements to be eligible to teach, including passing one or more licensure tests as a primary requirement. But licensure testing is controversial, with critics arguing it is an unnecessary barrier to entry into the teaching profession. With the onset of the COVID-19…

The advent of graduate level athletic training education programs, including those with online didactic curriculum, encourages instructors to incorporate higher level thinking strategies into their curricula. "Create" and "synthesize" are highlevel verbs in Bloom's Taxonomy. Pathomechanics, the study of how musculoskeletal…

The interweaving of various societal challenges into polycrisis makes resolving nowadays wicked problems increasingly complex, asking for a transformation of both our design and our education practices in the Global North. In this paper, we describe why and how we are developing and researching a multi-actor educational and learning environment…

This paper makes a novel contribution to international doctoral education scholarship by offering a detailed examination of pre-application doctoral communications (PADC) between prospective applicants and various university staff members. While PADC is currently an under-considered phenomenon within extant research literature, the paper argues…

Educators and policymakers have for decades endeavored to increase access to postsecondary education, aware that more and more jobs were requiring some amount of education after high school. Between 1983 and 2021, the percentage of jobs that required some postsecondary education more than doubled, and this trend is expected to continue. Despite…

As part of the budget reconciliation process, Senate Republicans in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions have proposed to hold higher education programs accountable for students' earnings outcomes. The plan would cut off access to federal student loans for undergraduate degree programs where former students do not earn at least…

In response to urgent student mental health needs across Virginia's college campuses, the 2022 Virginia General Assembly appropriated funds (2022 Appropriation Act, Item 144#3c) to support a two-year mental health workforce pilot program at public institutions of higher education. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), in…

Evaluating the long-term impact of college readiness programs on diverse youth presents unique challenges, particularly as youth navigate the complex and often transient path of postsecondary education. Instrumentation limitations and resource constraints can further blur the positive contributions of such programs. In an inaugural study, Indiana…

Using individual-level administrative data from California linked to survey data, this study explores how and why recent high school graduates' college trajectories may have been altered by the pandemic. We find sizable negative effects on college enrollment for the California high school graduating class of 2020. Similar to national trends, we…

As the cost of college continues to rise, free community college has emerged as a strategic policy intervention aimed at improving access to higher education and alleviating the burden of student loans. While free community college offers a potentially lower-cost pathway through college, limiting financial aid exclusively to community colleges…

This study examines how peer evaluation functions in global virtual teams, a setting that reflects the collaborative demands of contemporary international business education. The authors tested whether peer evaluation subscales, total peer-report score, and various indicators of team diversity predict team performance, assessed by instructors in a…

Programmatic assessment (PA) is widely implemented in higher education and is theorised to support self-regulated learning (SRL). However, its mechanisms remain unclear. This study explored students' perceptions of PA's impact on SRL in a part-time, predominantly online Master's programme for healthcare professionals worldwide. A pragmatic…