Jesuit universities provide a means of preparing students to advocate for social justice and the common good through an educational method known as Ignatian pedagogy. Rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Ignatian pedagogy is a teaching practice rich in co…
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Slaughter and Rhoades (2009) developed the theory of academic capitalism to explain the market-like behaviors of colleges and universities, which has been made more prevalent by the rise in neoliberal ideology and the new knowledge-based economy. Bok (2003), Giroux (2003), and o…
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictors of undergraduate, resident students’ attitudes toward guns on campus and the feelings of safety on concealed-carry campuses at five large, public universities in Texas. Data were collected from on-campus housing occupants …
This study added to the knowledge of student retention on a college campus by focusing on how first-year Muslim students experience a sense of belonging. The profile of college students has changed to reflect a more diverse population and U.S. colleges and universities need to b…
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 divers…
Higher education’s history of race-based exclusion and marginalization goes against the values of a new diverse and multicultural learning environment as imagined in a modern-day society (Hurtado et al. 1999; 2012). For Black administrators at Predominantly White Institutions (P…
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a consumer-protection law solely applicable to higher education institutions participating in student financial aid programs. This study addressed the perceived lack of sustainable instituti…
Charitable giving has been a critical resource for higher education dating back to the Academy of Socrates and Plato. It continued through the establishment of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, and in 2020, American higher education institutions received 49.6 billion of priv…
This study examined how first-year, gay, male undergraduate students attending Jesuit Catholic institutions make sense of their transition to college experience. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The participants included seven gay, cisgender, male individua…
A major focus of policymakers in recent years has been community colleges, which have been viewed as potential engines for economic advancement and student success. I examined the leadership history of Roane State Community College, a two-year institution of higher learning serv…
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore special education administrators’ perceptions of the associated challenges in the implementation of school-based mental health services after the abrupt change in the service delivery model due to the passage of AB 11…
Campus child care centers have often been credited for supporting the occupational success of faculty and staff with dependent children. These centers have also been hailed as essential supports for student-parents’ participation in higher education, integration into campus life…
In this study, I focused on the history of Ave Maria University during its formative years in Florida from 2003 to 2011 to answer the research question: How did a new, conservative Catholic university emerge in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century? Understandin…
As an indigenous serving institution, the University of Hawai‘i (UH) serves all indigenous groups including Pacific Islander groups. Continual and practical training of emerging educational leaders at the UH is critical to the ongoing success of Hawai‘i’s only public post-second…
There is a significant gender disparity in the highest leadership levels in Dominican universities. Research argues that in traditionalist societies and in some developing countries particularly, it is increasingly challenging for women to make it to top leadership. To achieve a…
From a historical perspective, the Black Church and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have had tremendous impacts on their constituencies and the communities in which they exist. In several cases, throughout their history and even in some cases today, individu…
The overt nature of racism in the United States has morphed into what researchers describe as microaggression (Sue et al., 2007; Sue, 2010a). Microaggressions are “everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, tha…
With state and federal funding sources shrinking for higher education, it is becoming evident that the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) must become more intentional and strategic in seeking to diversify their revenue stream through such methods as ca…
This applied dissertation focused on understanding the perceptions of orientation professionals of the impact of orientation programming at public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This study illustrates the effective practices of orientation programming and …