Erika Long explores the lack of diversity in school librarianship and the delicate balance of standing firm in one's Blackness while building relationships with students and leveraging limited resources to provide rich experiences that prioritize #OwnVoices books.

This essay proposes a Catholic structure for the intellectual life of faculty that invites participation in ways that honor their diverse backgrounds, even antipathy toward religion, while also demonstrating that identifiable Catholic perspectives, including Catholic social teaching, can provide a useful framework for faculty members to understand…

This resource provides recommendations for methods, tools, suggested (not endorsed) sample solutions, and tasks trainers can use to increase participant engagement in professional learning experiences. It also outlines connections between adult learning principles and steps in the "Adult Learning Framework." This resource includes: (1)…

This is an exploratory case study that explored service-learning experiences and perceptions among Latinas enrolled in a South Texas university. This study also addresses the challenges and benefits that are associated with Latinas and service-learning in higher education as service providers. This study provides a better understanding of Latina…

The purpose of the study was to examine the perceptions of dual enrollment from high school administrators in urban, suburban, and rural districts in Georgia to discover what procedures or practices were utilized to promote positive experiences for dual enrolled students. Thirty-one respondents participated in the study from Georgia districts.…

This study presents an examination of the relationship and predictability of selected socio-personal, job-related, and school-related factors on the level of financial support by alumni at an historically black college and university (HBCU). In this study, the researcher specifically examined the predictive power of socio-personal, job-related,…

Congolese/Zairean immigrant community college students face challenges at a US community college setting. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive research was to understand participants' description of their encounters. Theories helped understand the phenomenon under research. Ogbu and Simons (1998) Cultural Ecology Theory was used to…

Professional development and job satisfaction is a topic of great interest for all those who are involved in the field of early childhood education. Professional development is closely related to organizational development, both representing a result of continuous changes in education. At a personal level, professional development has an internal…

Teacher washout can disrupt teacher effectiveness and undermine the espoused pedagogy in teacher education programs. Teacher washout occurs once an individual occupies a teaching role after formal training but corresponds with the potency of teacher education programs and K-12 experiences. Teacher washout literature is limited and does not address…

Academic department chairs are key in helping universities achieve student success. To succeed in their decisions and furthering their university's educational mission, department chairs can use institutional data to inform their decision-making. In many cases, however, there are gaps, misalignments, and inefficiencies between department chairs…

The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study is to examine the lived experiences of accounting students who are incorporating experiential learning into their training as part of their academic curriculum. The aim of this study is to understand perceptions of undergraduate accounting majors at higher education institutions and how…

The single-mother college student population has quietly grown to over two million undergraduate students over the last two decades, but most of them will not attain a degree. What has been missing is a better understanding of the lived experiences of successfully persisting single-mother college students as told by the women themselves. This…

Employee engagement is a critical component of a productive work environment. Female teachers have been found to exude lower levels of workforce engagement than their male counterparts based on a variety of quantitative studies completed in the past. Females dominate the field of education with nearly 70% of the workforce being comprised of women.…

America's teaching force does not represent the children in its classrooms. The majority of public-school teachers are white women, while the majority of their students are not. The system within which U.S. educators operate is infused with racist procedures and curriculum presented through a white, western, Eurocentric, patriarchal lens that…

Educating is difficult work, and education is a stressful profession. Burnout among teachers and other stakeholders in the field has been a known phenomenon for decades. To support teachers in promoting student success, instructional coaches have become a fixture in many schools across the U.S. However, little is known about their worklife…