The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the relationship between self-perceived leader efficacy and organizational change management amongst Higher education institutions (HEI) academic deans in the Northeast Region of the United States. There was a gap in the literature regarding best practices for academic leaders…

This qualitative study examines leadership challenges and lessons learned from 27 months of crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic as described by educational leaders in an urban public school district. Interviews were conducted with sixteen public school administrators: the Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Principals, Assistant Principals…

Entrepreneurs build successful businesses by taking innovative ideas from research labs to market. This article describes a pedagogical approach and its outcomes in utilizing a multi-stage, multi-course, and multi-semester capstone integrative project to teach entrepreneurial marketing (EM) of early-stage technologies. Herein we explain concepts…

Though "assessment is an integral part of the learning process," unfortunately, struggles are not uncommon, and for various reasons, some students struggle with specific assessments. So, the question becomes, what should be done about it? Discussions on inclusive educational practices have exploded as a part of a renewed push for greater…

In today's universities, women are still underrepresented in senior leadership positions. The research-focused systems and structures that support the progression of men often work against women who are drawn to alternative career paths within the academy for a variety of reasons. UK universities have seen an increase in teaching-focused career…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to extend the Blevins et al. (2020) study by empirically examining the benefits of using a customized study abroad host-country provider (hereafter referred to as "SAA") of logistical and other services that support non-native host country (hereafter referred to as non-indigenous) college of business…

It is not known why Latina community college administrators are disproportionally underrepresented in higher education. Of all full-time faculty in postsecondary institutions, 3% are Hispanic females; 1% or less of full-time professors are Hispanic females, and 3% are full-time assistant professors. The purpose of this qualitative study was to…

The emergence of change management in educational organizations in the 21st century has raised the need to adapting paradigm shift in leaders' vision on setting the goals, missions and objectives towards the effective achievement of the organization's goals, this paper sheds lights on the paradigm shift of change management aiming to bring about a…

Public Higher Education (PHE) reflects a drastic reduction in funding to subsidize its day-to-day functioning, increasing dependence on tuition fees to be operational, the existence of outdated government funding policies, and the lack of a sustainable funding mechanism. Notwithstanding, the plethora of research attempting to understand different…

Campus administrators and practitioners must make sense of state policy and system-level initiatives for successful implementation. This qualitative study examined campus administrators' and student health and well-being practitioners' sensemaking of the University System of Georgia's (USG) Mental Health Initiative (MHI) through interviews with…

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to explore the shared experiences of novice school principals' mentor training and to gain an understanding of the experience of peer educators. This dissertation employed a qualitative case study methodology to interview Arizona principals with less than three years of experience who did not receive…

School principals are moved from one school to another because of retirements, resignations, or school divisions' rotation policies. Leadership transitions can be challenging for the principal and the school community given that the leaders have little to no knowledge of the new school, its culture, and its staff and no established relationships.…

The problem that was explored in this study was that many students with learning disabilities are enrolled in Jamaican teachers' colleges but were not provided with accommodations. The purpose of the study was to determine the perceived and barriers that Jamaican college administrators experience in facilitating the accommodation of students with…

Student activism has existed for as long as higher education has existed in the United States. The subject has been studied at length, and yet there is still more to be understood regarding institutional response to student activism, students' perceptions of that response, and strategies that may be employed to address student activists' concerns.…

The recent worldwide pandemic impacted educational systems on a global scale, forcing school leaders to reimagine educational structures as they faced the ongoing wounding of the unprecedented, shared trauma wrought by COVID-19. Mandated U.S. school closures in March of 2020 forced an immediate transition to distance learning and presented…