This article provides an analysis of published writing on amenities in higher education with the goal of bringing order to the voluminous information and helping to advance research. It examines over 40 articles and books to answer four interrelated questions: 1) How are amenities defined in the context of higher education? 2) How are amenities…

Recruiting, teacher preparation, and acquiring teaching jobs can be viewed as a pipeline. The function of the pipeline is to provide competent and qualified physical education teachers to teach in our nation's schools. On the exit end of the pipeline, jobs for physical education teachers are plentiful. At the entry level to the pipeline, the…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the authors' views of university-multi academy trusts' (MATs) opportunities for future interconnectivity that could support successful partnerships. Design/methodology/approach: The authors developed a matrix of university-MATs partnerships that could help identifying potential scenarios of…

The advent of neoliberal school reforms and school marketisation compels schools to advertise extensively and creatively for student recruitment. This chapter focuses on a particular school that has converted and modified structural features like perimeter walls for advertisement and showcasing purposes. Employing an anecdotal discourse analysis,…

Teacher preparation programs are facing an alarming drop in enrollments around the country. Our university, The State University of New York at Albany, has not been exempted from decreased enrollments. Low enrollments have led us to initiate direct attempts to recruit quality applicants to our master's programs. As part of our overall recruiting…

Current research in teacher education has turned a gaze toward recruiting students of color into teacher preparation programs. Yet teacher education programs fail to deconstruct the intersectional racial grammar of teacher education to provide meaningful learning experiences for preservice teachers of color, who often endeavor to teach in the very…

At a time when the number of younger students entering our colleges and universities is stagnant, and the number of older people in our society continues to grow by the millions, schools of social work have an opportunity to broaden their student base by intentionally including people past midlife. This article argues that we must recruit and…

While there is now extensive literature related to the internationalization of post-secondary education in Canada, developments within K-12 public schooling have received much less attention. This article explores recent developments in international education in Canadian public-school systems, with specific attention to developments in Manitoba.…

Underpinned by neoliberalism and spurred by growing international student mobility (ISM), global trends and policymaking on internationalisation are geared towards the maximisation of efforts by countries and institutions to recruit fee-paying international students. For international students, previous studies on their decision-making processes…

The National Science Foundation projects that the United States could see over 2 million unfilled STEM jobs in 2025 (National Science Foundation, 2018). At Redacted University for Review faculty from the STEM fields have undertaken the Science and Mathematics Attraction, Retention, and Training for Texas (SMART Texas) project, a National Science…

Purpose: By reviewing policies on higher education for international students, this article aims to investigate the change of social-historical context, policy issue, and policy solution and provide implications for policymaking. Design/Approach/Methods: The study used qualitative text analysis. One hundred and twelve policy papers were collected…

In the past few months, a plethora of reports have documented the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global business, and these are generally not something to be happy about. As expected, the international education sector has not been spared. Because of border closures and stringent travel protocols implemented by many countries, international…

Effective recruitment into Career Technical Education (CTE) programs requires framing CTE to meet the needs and aspirations of each learner and their parent/guardian. This Advance CTE report provides insights on what families value in their education; elevates what aspects and messages about CTE that most resonate as well as the go-to messengers…

Purpose/Problem: It is estimated more than 75% of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) college-bound students (rising freshmen) who live in the North American Division (NAD) do not attend an SDA college/university. This is a major challenge for the NAD colleges/universities. Discovering motivators and barriers for SDA college-bound students is vital in…

The purpose of this evaluation was to investigate the factors that contribute to students' recruitment and retention in the Arabic program at my college. The two questions guiding this evaluation were: (1) what factors influence students to join the Arabic program at my college and (2) what factors influence students to continue to enroll in…