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There is considerable literature documenting the need to diversify leadership in higher education. When data tracking diversity is reported, representation is most often given in binary terms such as people of color versus White population. Although diversity has recently increa…

A phenomenological study of twelve current students with autism studying in Mid-Western United States universities were interviewed about their time in middle and high school. The research question was “What were the lived experiences of university students with autism (ages eig…

Female circumcision is a practice that globally has affected 130 million people. Two million females are circumcised yearly, amounting to 6,000 circumcised per day. Female circumcision is defined as the deliberate removal or injury to any part of the female genitalia without med…

This research explores the socially embedded experiences of four adults who migrated in childhood and maintain their mother tongue while acquiring and appropriating a second language and way of being in the world. The participants in this inquiry, from Somalia, Peru, Hong Kong a…