Mental health impacts students on human, academic, and economic levels. A growing national mental health crisis over the past decade has left higher education institutions struggling to meet students' mental health needs. Understanding the scope and impact of these experiences for engineering graduate students is critical to supporting their…

In today's interconnected and multidisciplinary design practices, collaboration as pivotal. It's not only a fundamental aspect of successful design outcomes but also influences the way designers work and connect with others. This dissertation delves into the intricacies of collaboration in design, spanning both educational and professional realms.…

This study explores the complexity of generic graduate attributes, including soft skills, qualities, competencies, and capabilities in order to pinpoint how graduate attributes are cultivated in practice during the university experience. Few studies have examined the active and formative role of universities in cultivating generic graduate…

Work-based learning (WBL) has been sought as a strategy to produce better equipped graduates to enter the workforce. This quantitative, quasi-experimental study used Liptak's Career Planning Scale to examine differences that existed between community college student and alumni completion of WBL through enrollment in a Work Experience class and…

As a research team, we collected 40 oral history interviews with teachers and support professionals across the state who meaningfully participated in the 2018 Oklahoma education walkouts. The teachers and staff we interviewed are voices not previously cited in local or national news or would be identified readily as prominent or powerful leaders…

Once an integral component to library instruction programs, tours of academic library spaces are less common despite students' continued need for study spaces with various qualities. This study asks, "What do students remember after taking an asynchronous, on-site academic library tour?" Qualitative analysis finds that, while students…

This study investigated changes in motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, and a range of emotions, including enjoyment, hope, pride, curiosity, anxiety, boredom, apathy, confusion, and shame, from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective over a 2-year period in the Hungarian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Using the same…

This paper examines the experiences of adult participants in the nehiyawak Language Experience (nLE), a land-based Cree language immersion camp aimed at reclaiming nehiyawewin (Cree). Using Indigenous methodology, this study explores the following question: What are the experiences of adult learners and teachers in a land-based nehiyawewin…

Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise for enhancing teaching and learning in higher education, yet educators and administrators still lack practical examples to guide their adoption. This article presents insights and use cases from the integration of LLMs into a first-year undergraduate computer science cohort. By employing LLMs as…

For the first time, this study uses a social identity lens, to explore how one group of students reflect on their experience at an elite Australian higher educational institution (HEI). This qualitative research project invited undergraduate, domestic students who self-identified as being from a low-socioeconomic (low-SES) background to…

While quantitative research has revealed that undergraduate research experiences are closing graduate school matriculation gaps for underrepresented students, little is known about how they are doing this. This study explores this through two in-depth interviews with 12 students who attended a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for…

In recent years, Animal Science demographics have been shifting from many students having an abundance of animal experience towards a majority of students having little to no prior animal experience. It's important to note this demographic shift and to consider how this shift could be impacting student mental health. Throughout a semester long…

This article explores the narratives of two doctoral candidates in a curriculum and instruction program, revealing their dissertation experiences after challenging conventional norms in their coursework. Through qualitative analysis, we identify themes of cultural authenticity, power of the academy, and theory vs. practice. These themes underscore…

The perception of a graduate leadership education program's value by those enrolled is a critical factor in the continued success of the program. This article explores student experiences within an online cohort-based master's-level leadership program. The researchers sought to understand how students rhetorically codified or expressed their…

Efforts to increase student engagement in high- impact practices (HIPs) have taken higher education by storm since seminal work on the positive educational benefits that can result from participation in 11 formally recognized HIPs. However, in recent years, several scholars have called attention to the "high-impact" nature of the…