As excellence in teaching and learning, in combination with a focus on student performance rates, are guiding the demands placed on higher education institutions, modern universities are attributing strategic importance to leadership of teaching and learning. Previous studies on educational leadership have, nevertheless, identified significant…

On March 28, 2022, Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1557 "The Parental Rights in Education" bill into law, taking effect July 1, 2022. As written, the bill: (a) prohibits discussion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, and all other terms and concepts related to sexuality and gender (LGBTQ+)…

As school systems struggle to recover from years of disruption, new programs, policies, and nontraditional organizations that support innovation in the teaching role will need to grow to support all students' learning. But what is it like to teach in new ways? What are the advantages and drawbacks? What brought educators to these unconventional…

Despite the research of Chief Diversity Officers in K-12 educational setting being limited, these DEI-focused professionals have become a recent emergent practice in Connecticut school districts. Informed by the research on Chief Diversity Officers in corporate organizational and higher educational structures, this phenomenological study aimed to…

Educators in non-formal education organizations are often expected to display values of volunteering and giving to the community. These contributions, which are beyond the call of duty, are defined as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). When such behavior is performed as a result of pressure rather than out of free will, that pressure is…

The role of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in preparing human resource for local, national and global sustainable development is paramount. Such role can be adequately performed by competent staff who are satisfied with their jobs. This study determined the extent of the relationship between job satisfaction and characteristics in public…

The environmental issues has transcended the confines of national boundaries and become global concerns. To address these matters, Environmental Education (EE) has emerged as a pivotal strategy aimed at elevating students' awareness, knowledge, and attitude towards the environment. In this light, China has incorporated EE into its official…

This study addresses the role of teachers in students' well-being in higher education, which has not been well defined in the literature. A qualitative study was conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences. It explores student beliefs about educators' roles in their well-being, and the requirements to fulfil such roles. In total, 27…

The dominant response within higher education to the emergence of free online text- and graphic-generating software has been a concern with identifying AI usage in students' work. We argue that this is both a waste of time and neglects our educational responsibilities. A police-catch-punish approach to AI, as with the use of this process in…

The legalities around incidents in outdoor education (OE) are undeniable, and ignorance is not a defence. Using case study analysis specific to legal literacy, we extend this analysis to include the "7 Rights" framework and add two additional rights for consideration, referred to as the 9 Rights. This discussion organizes what is…

The purpose of this study is to describe differences in global perspective taking between MBA alums who graduated with a dual degree from both a Colombian university and a U.S. university and those who did not participate in the program. The Global Perspective Inventory (GPI) is a survey tool that evaluates global competencies across three domains…

This qualitative study utilizes Latina/Latino Critical Race Theory as a lens to present the perceptions of Latina/Latino/Latinx school counselors who were in public high schools for at least two years with caseloads of at least 350 students. Counselor Burnout has been a topic researched extensively but mainly through studies that focus on the…

To influence student achievement and improve learning outcomes, building leaders are expected to exercise key elements of instructional leadership. School leaders experience barriers to engaging in efforts to increase teacher effectiveness and guide instructional improvement, due to the demands on their time as they balance the operational,…

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted teaching and learning, causing schools to close and to move students to remote learning. Many principals sidestepped the guiding principle for schools, the mission statement, and were instead on a mission to salvage teaching and learning. Environmental entities became crucial to school survival. The open system…

Purpose: This practitioner paper intends to explore how Public Higher Education Institutions (PHEIs) in Pakistan could strategize alumni to encounter the financial sustainability challenges and achieve their organizational potential relevant to academic, research and public services. Design/methodology/approach: Employing a hermeneutic…