This pilot study aimed to evaluate the development of writing skills among Master of Public Health (MPH) students after completing a public health writing assignment designed with a transparent framework. The assignment incorporated Lettersmith, a free educational technology tool that supports metacognition and the writing process. A secondary aim…

Cultural and resource centers (CRCs) on college campuses are pivotal safe havens for minoritized students. CRCs respond to immediate student needs (such as offering support following racial bias incidents or providing financial aid literacy coaching) and foster community by engaging students in cultural programming and by offering physical space…

Bangladeshi international students in Canada have strong academic and economic potential but lack proper social integration, which exacerbates their psychosocial challenges. This study aimed to explore their psychosocial difficulties to identify and address those issues. A qualitative study was conducted with 10 female and male students to examine…

Basic Needs Oregon was established in 2021 through House Bill 2835 to ensure that students enrolled at Oregon's public colleges and universities can meet their basic needs--including food, housing, health care, transportation, and emergency financial support--so they can persist and succeed in higher education. Drawing on Basic Needs Oregon…

In the competitive and achievement-driven world of higher education, the mental health and neurodiversity of faculty and staff often remain overlooked or misunderstood. While institutions increasingly prioritize student mental health, the challenges faced by educators are frequently ignored, leaving them to navigate a culture that values…

Neighborhood adversity links to mental health and cognitive outcomes, but little is known about structural factors that may buffer these links. The current study addresses this gap by assessing the role of protective factors in the association of neighborhood deprivation, threat, and segregation with psychopathology symptoms and cognitive…

This study was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the role of emotions within protest experiences among college students. The study sample consisted of 18 undergraduate students aged 18 to 25 who participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement protests. Within the sample, the majority of the participants identified as female (61.11%,…

Objective: To assess depression and anxiety among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with race. Participants: Using a cross-sectional survey, depression and anxiety among college students at a Predominantly White (PWU) and a Historically Black University (HBU) during 2021 were evaluated. Methods: The patient health…

The Good Behavior Game (GBG) is a team-based classroom management intervention developed to mitigate disruptive behaviors and promote prosocial behaviors of school-aged children. While the short-term benefits of the GBG are well documented in meta-analyses and systematic reviews, it is less clear for what long-term outcomes the GBG may reduce…

Sociocultural factors and STEM identity have been previously shown to influence the success and mental health of students. Likewise, student identity influences persistence and can be protective of success and psychological distress in minoritized populations. This work sought to understand how sociocultural factors and mental health were related…

This article examines how carceral logics manifest for undergraduate racialized and disabled students who identify as or have a lived experience of disability. Using Disability Critical Race Theory, a crip-of-color critique, and carceral ableism and sanism as lenses, we challenge color-evasive ideology and explore how services that purport to…

In 2018, the Oregon Legislature formed the Joint Committee on Student Success (JCSS). Over the course of the year, the JCSS met with school and district staff, students, and families to hear about student needs around the state and created a report about those priorities. Following that report, the Oregon Legislature passed the Student Success Act…

Introduction: COVID-19 impacted care delivery in rehabilitation services including speech-language pathology. The purpose of this study was to examine speech-language pathologists'(SLPs) perspectives on the effectiveness of virtual care delivered during the pandemic in Canada, their experiences with therapy delivered virtually and their views on…

Given the critical shortage of community providers and a growing aging population of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, siblings are expected to provide caregiving for their brothers and sisters with intellectual and developmental disabilities. However, family support and disability policies often do not acknowledge…

Mental wellness has been emphasised in positive psychology. However, a significant gap remains in understanding the complex interplay among teachers' difficulty-coping-related variables (e.g., resilience), well-being, and work-related states (e.g., work engagement). The present study examined the role of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)…