The racial and cultural climates at predominantly White institutions of higher education have a history of being unwelcoming and unsupportive of administrators and leaders of color. Leaders of color have filled a majority of the leadership positions charged with advancing diversity and equity-driven agendas at predominantly White institutions. The…

The purpose of this basic qualitative research study was to investigate the leadership style that student affairs leaders practiced and whether or not the leadership style contributed to the support of the programming and resources for undergraduate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT+) students at public, four-year institutions. The…

Gender is the central axis around which the transformation of radical right forces is taking place: a new type of movement is emerging which is not excessively masculine. Latvia is experiencing an increase in women's participation in the radical right, the Latvian National Front (LNF) being a vivid example. The development of the LNF was…

In this essay, the authors discuss the ecologies of teachers and administrators, examining the historical relationships between workers and organizations. Exploring matters of affinity, loyalty, privilege, cowardice, corruption, and oppression, the authors illustrate how leaders have used and continue to use positional advantages to overtly,…

Background/Context: Institutional missions serve many purposes within universities, but most studies focus on how mission points to direction, guidelines, or priorities. However, organizational missions have been shown to have other functions such as instructing members about actions or behaviors that are acceptable. This paper therefore examines…

Educational leadership is facing a need for change; this change requires innovative approaches such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to transform teacher practice. Principled modelling by these leaders is integral to sustained change. In addition, to initiate this change, traditional practices such as group work can be used with a UDL focus…

The current study discusses the ethics of the teaching profession among secondary school teachers from school leaders' perspective in Riyadh. It aimed at providing a proposal for the ethics of the teaching profession. The study utilized the descriptive approach and a questionnaire applied to 426 school leaders. The sample responses means were…

There is a looming crisis in California community colleges due to an unprecedented number college presidents retiring. African American women presidents have played a vital role in supporting the success of students of color, particularly African American students. It will be critically important that a new generation of talented African American…

Stakeholders throughout the United States of America (USA) Catholic School system have collaborated to develop a set of standards and benchmarks aimed at securing a strong future for the continuance of its educational programs. Catholic Schools in the (USA) are comprised of a diverse population of students and faculty who collectively represent a…

This Delphi study asked a 25-member expert panel of higher education technology leaders to examine requirements for their role and make predictions a future higher education technology leader (eg. Chief Information Officer or CIO) will need to succeed. The panel, representing a range of institution sizes and types, assisted in exploring the…

School systems throughout the United States need collective healing. The COVID-19 pandemic sent a shock through the nation resulting in many families experiencing job loss, food insecurity, increased financial and emotional stress, and mental health issues for the first time, while exacerbating such issues for many other families who already…

Effective leadership is recognised as the second most impactful variable influencing student achievement and promoting teaching quality (Bush 2021; Leithwood et al. 2020). The paper reports on the perceptions of educational leaders in the Western Australian public education system about: their leadership capability, support mechanisms and…

The Listening Guide method was founded in opposition to other forms of interview coding which either put data into predetermined and/or binary categories. Feminist psychologists believed that other methods of qualitative research disappeared the undertheorized portions of subjects' narratives. This method does not seek to only hear voices of queer…

School principals often contend that having the ability to be the instructional leaders that they were trained to be hinges in part upon maximizing their decision making latitude. These leaders assert that policy flexibility allows schools to make necessary changes without the bureaucracy that they believe stifles reform, improvement strategies,…

This study explored the training needs of small colleges and universities to adopt cloud computing securely. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to determine what training would allow the small colleges and universities to deploy cloud computing solutions securely. The research interviewed 10 IT leaders from small colleges…