Background: There is evidence that interventions provided by a speech and language therapist (SLT) can positively impact the quality of life (QoL) of people with primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Current reviews refer to functional approaches rather than categorising QoL-enhancing therapies. Aims: This paper aims to provide an overview of the…

MKE Roots: The Democratizing Local History Project is a U.S. Department of Education-funded educational outreach project of Marquette University's Center for Urban Research, Teaching and Outreach. MKE Roots offers a pedagogical ecosystem for teaching a critical, place-based history of Milwaukee's communities--with particular attention to…

Multimodal composing activities invite language learners to draw upon distinct potentials of diverse modes of representation to make and remake signs for communication. Despite increased interest in incorporating multimodal composing activities in language classrooms, we do not yet have an in-depth understanding of the process of remaking signs…

Student well-being plays a vital role in college study, significantly influencing students' academic performance, satisfaction with learning, cognitive functioning, and motivation. Recognizing its essential impact, this study discovers how psychosocial factors (i.e. academic burnout, learning empowerment, and social support) predict psychological…

Objective: There is a lack of research examining factors that promote the disclosure of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among post-secondary students. However, elucidating which factors facilitate disclosures among students -- particularly students with high risk NSSI -- is important given that disclosure may facilitate access to care. Methods:…

Campus administrators and faculty members conceptualized, planned, designed, implemented, and evaluated TANDEM (Thoughtful Advice. Nurtured Diversity. Engaged Mentorship.), a mentorship program designed to attract, support, and retain faculty. This article includes the stages of developing TANDEM and primarily focuses on how the program responded…

Teachers' leadership behavior has been demonstrated to play a critical role in students' motivation, learning and performance in school. Given its importance, we theorised and tested a model of the determinants for teachers to excel in leadership behavior in the classroom and beyond. Based on self-determination theory, we modelled the influence of…

Preservice teachers will soon be expected to manage a classroom of students who will have myriad peer relationships and social issues among themselves. Managing these classroom social dynamics is increasingly recognized as an essential component of teachers' classroom management practice. One way to support teachers in this skill is to bolster…

Objective: Most undocumented students enter higher education through community colleges, yet these institutions typically offer less support than four-year universities. Using Shumaker and Brownell's theory of social support, we aimed to understand how resources at community colleges influenced undocumented students' persistence. Specifically, we…

This study explores how adolescent and young adult (AYA) women exercise their autonomy when making the decision to use an intrauterine device (IUD). The study team interviewed 42 AYA women participating in a longitudinal study of AYA women's experiences during the first year of IUD use conducted within 30 days of IUD placement. I found young…

This paper explores multiple conceptualisations of interculturality situated within an Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa indigenous territory expressed through local discourses. Considering Amerindian perspectivism I analyse three discursive moments occurring within this territory. The first, is a community elder's narrative constructing a distinctive…

While the under-representation of women in senior leadership roles in the UK higher education sector is well recognised, scant regard has been paid to how this impacts female academics from alternative ethnicities and from overseas. This paper aims to help address this by summarising the findings from an integrative review of published evidence…

The pivot to online teaching during the pandemic brought new challenges for instructors teaching large classes. In response to instructors' need for additional support with engaging students online, two educational development units collaboratively designed the Teaching Exchange. The Teaching Exchange was a virtual series of sessions on different…

Purpose: We seek to systematically explore the joint effects of individual and environmental factors on college students' career adaptability. Design/methodology/approach: This study employed convenience sampling to collect individual and environmental data from 2,021 college students. The interaction between individual and environmental factors…

There is a growing phenomenon within academia wherein the rhetoric of disability culture and disability justice is employed in programming and committee work that aims to address inaccessibility and ableism. In this article, we think intentionally about the institutional lives of disability culture and disability justice in higher education. We…