Many organizations across the United States were severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including institutions of higher education. Campus leaders needed to make decisions about closing campuses, increasing financial constraints, shifts in research, and changing class modalities. Past research shows that one preferred method for making…

With the shifting dynamics within higher education, there is a stronger reliance and need for financial support in order to aid the institution's growth and financial health. One particular segment of their donor base that institutions will need to cultivate in order to respond to these dynamics is among their alumni. Simultaneously, while many…

As more states adopt universal education savings account (ESA) programs, analysts have declared that the "final frontier" of school choice has been reached. Another choice that parents might want to make and policymakers should support as an intermediate option between private school and homeschooling is partnering with their local…

The project director sought to equip a select group of college students from Shades Mountain Baptist Church (SMBC) in Birmingham, AL to increase their Great Commission awareness and participation. The project director addressed a very significant need in his ministry context. He helped college students meaningfully connect their desire for purpose…

Learners in connectivist learning are diverse. It's necessary to make a clear understanding of learners' participation types and characteristics for optimizing the learning support service and learning evaluation in connectivist learning. This study aims to describe different types of learners in connectivist learning from two dimensions of social…

Guided by the Icelandic Prevention Model, a community-led coalition in Franklin County, KY, aimed to subsidize costs for participation in supervised organized leisure time programs among its youth via adaptation of the Reykjavik City Leisure Card program, locally known as the 'YES Card' voucher program. This study examined whether the proportion…

The primary purpose of this study is to explore how parents involve themselves in their children's music practice. It is based on the retrospective views of Chinese collegiate students majoring in music. A total of 14 Chinese students participated in individual semi-structured interviews. The qualitative analysis in this study centred on the type…

Children with atypical sensory integration have difficulty responding to the processing and/or organization of sensory information, this disability affects functional participation in routines and activities of daily living. Participation is defined as involvement in life situations, it is essential to promote life experiences and the development…

Students in large cities across the United States can better understand agriculture through their involvement in School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE). Since the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act in 1917, Agricultural Education has been a pathway that encourages students to continue schooling and connect with future careers. We conducted a…

Educators must continuously assess and adjust to maximize the amount of information students retain. One way to evaluate teaching effectiveness is thru pre- and post-semester assessments. Factors such as individual willingness to participate can affect the validity of these assessments. Our hypothesis was that students will more actively…

Career and Technical Student Organizations and Career and Technical Education programs in secondary education claim to prepare its students and members for post-secondary success. However, these claims are inherently difficult to study and quantify. By using a synthesis of the literature on emerging adulthood, self-directed learning, and…

The regulations of the Individuals with Disabilities Act and the New York State Part 200 Procedural Safeguards mandate that parents of students with disabilities be afforded an opportunity to attend their child's Committee on Special Education (CSE) meeting to discuss needs and services. Historically, CSE meetings have been held in school…

To help students achieve academic success, school administrators need actively engaged teachers. However, public schools in the United States struggle to keep teachers engaged, contributing to an already existing teacher attrition crisis. This quantitative study examines the association between professional development elements and teacher…

Using a strengths-based approach, this study investigated whether Black adolescents' provision of different types of support to family (chores, childcare, emotional, financial support) was associated with their educational outcomes (school engagement, grades, suspensions), and whether these associations differed by household income levels. The…

A central purpose of higher education is to prepare students to be active participants in our democracy. To measure how students intend to participate, we need items to capture their anticipated behavior and analytical tools to summarize the results in meaningful ways. This study used a popular set of items along with latent class analysis (LCA)…