Corruption in academia has a detrimental impact on educational quality, innovation, and public trust, especially in countries with weak governance structures like Yemen. This paper analyzes the pervasive nature of corruption in Yemeni higher education institutions, focusing on key areas such as manipulation in hiring practices, biased thesis…

People with disabilities have become part of a growing population in the U.S. and globally. This study investigated the implicit and explicit attitudes after involvement in a community-inclusive soccer festival, StarkVegas Fútbol Jamboree, that included people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Nine sport management graduate students who…

Despite constituting the majority of mid-level academic professionals and outpacing men in educational attainment, women remain significantly underrepresented in senior leadership roles across higher education. This mixed-methods (n=20) study explores the "sacrifice gap"-the disproportionate personal, professional, and economic costs…

This article engages with Judith Butler's theorisation of gender performativity and seeks to expand understandings of agency in queer theory by conceptualising the mechanisms of resistance in practice, using the case of Chinese schooling as its focus. Drawing on the Confucian dual concepts of "ming" (name) and "shi"…

Today's polarizing socio/historical-cultural contexts challenge the intersectionality of practitioner-scholars committed to justice, particularly those of us from historically marginalized groups, constraining our ability to design careers that align with our values and transform education. Recent efforts to restrict free speech and eliminate…

This study examines South Korea's multicultural education policies through critical discourse analysis of policy documents from 2006 to 2024. As South Korea transitions to a multicultural society, education policies attempt to address increasingly diverse student populations. However, significant discrepancies exist between inclusive rhetoric and…

Purpose: This research aims to gain insight into the stereotypes surrounding vocational education and its groups from the students' perspective. Building upon this basis, it seeks to explore the content, characteristics and solution strategies for stereotypes associated with vocational education and its groups. Design/methodology/approach: It…

This article explores the author's approach to teaching Religious Studies with a focus on gender, sexuality, and feminist pedagogy. In a predominantly white and cis-hetero-male field, the author intentionally incorporates feminist perspectives to create an inclusive and supportive classroom environment. Additionally, their teaching on South Asia,…

Experts have cautioned against the use of college student ratings of instruction (SRIs) in making high stakes decisions for faculty members, such as compensation and tenure, due to extraneous variables that bias student responses. This practice is especially pernicious for minoritized faculty members, with evidence to suggest student feedback to…

The rapid advancement of Conversational AI tools like ChatGPT has sparked polarized debates in academia, particularly around issues of plagiarism, ownership, and bias. Unexamined misconceptions may hinder the effective integration of Conversational AI tools, limiting their potential to stimulate interactive and convergent learning experiences.…

Latinx students make up 77.8% of the English learner (EL) population in the United States (Department of Education, 2017). However, there is a subpopulation of Latinx ELs who are: English-dominant, born in the United States, and identified as long-term English learner (LTEL). ELs who are not reclassified after 6 or 7 years are categorized as LTEL…

Many institutions of higher education have implemented workshops for hiring committee members to familiarize them with the pernicious effects of implicit bias and how to counteract them. Unfortunately, the enthusiasm for implicit bias trainings is not matched by the evidence for their effectiveness. Recognizing the difficulty of removing…

Media culture is exploitative and damaging. It reinforces both racist and sexist stereotypes, which places Black young women's unique racialized gender in a position to be overidentified in derogatory ways. The bodies of Black young women, as an example, are labeled with social stigmas that make them identifiable to society at large as deficient.…

In this paper, we use research with Indigenous Maori women to explain the research interface to bring together Indigenous and Euro-Western ways of knowing. Our research required using an Indigenous research methodology that drew on traditional cultural knowledge with embedded critical and decolonisation theories to understand this…

We consider the problem of bias arising from conditioning on a post-outcome collider. We illustrate this with reference to Elwert and Winship (2014) but we go beyond their study to investigate the extent to which inverse probability weighting might offer solutions. We use linear models to derive expressions for the bias arising in different kinds…