While many higher education institutions highlight their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), recent legislation and policies across several Southern states have indicated significant pushback against these initiatives, with some states enacting bans or restrictions on DEI efforts on college campuses. This essay will examine the…

As Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Scholars, we understand that community colleges can be sites where harm and pain are reproduced for Students of Color. Racial microaggressions, a form of systemic everyday racism, adversely impact the academic experiences of community college Students of Color, producing high pushout and low completion rates.…

Higher education scholars have studied the American college presidency. Yet, fewer studies have prioritized the support systems needed to ensure that the presidential pipeline is representative of the students they serve. By examining the concept of sponsorship through a hermeneutical phenomenological approach, this piece described the mechanisms…

This paper based on the opening address for the 2023-2024 School Psychology Futures Conference, reflects on contemporary inequities in school psychology practice, research, and graduate education. Challenges as the profession reckons with its oppressive past are highlighted. Drawing on concepts from liberation psychology, critical school…

Administrators and faculty at many colleges and universities are dedicated to making the faculty hiring process fair and equitable. One program that has shown promise is to train and appoint a Diversity Advocate (DA) to serve on each faculty search and screen committee. In this study, we created and examined the early stages of a DA program at a…

Noting the popular psychology embrace of "self-care," in this study, we sought to assess the relationship between self-care behaviors and symptoms of depression and anxiety in school psychology graduate students. Participants were recruited from the National Association of School Psychology (NASP) approved graduate training programs. A…

While campus food pantries are growing increasingly popular as an intervention aimed at improving student retention, little work has examined what it takes to start and maintain these resources on the ground. We leverage data from 17 interviews with pantry leaders, and social media posts and internal documents, to describe the creation and…

Students and teachers with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQ+) experience harsh discrimination in schools and society. This discrimination has fueled attacks on their humanity and threatened their safety in mathematics classrooms. Consequently, advocacy…

In this paper, we examine the underexplored topic of language teacher educator (LTE) emotions and intersectionality through our individual counternarratives to show how intersectionality and emotions have shaped our own experiences, trajectories, and ideologies as LTEs. We also propose some larger ideas and themes in the form of a grand…

We examine the experiences of student leaders working with student affairs educators (SAEs). Framed by social exchange, we identified three themes highlighting how, from the perspectives of student leaders, (in)actions contribute to complicating the working relationship between student leaders and SAEs: (a) deprioritizing and devaluing student…

Language teacher educators' identity is a significant contributor to pedagogical and professional choices they make in their work. Utilizing Foucault's notion of ethico-political self-formation as adapted by Clarke (2009), the researchers explored the identities of six advocacy-oriented language teacher educators (LTEs) working in the United…

Co-Curricular LGBTQ+ Social Justice Educational Interventions (SJEIs), commonly called Safe Zones, aim to improve the climate for LGBTQ+ individuals. Less than 5% of campuses have a LGBTQ+ resource center across the United States, which means institutions must rely on volunteer facilitators, including faculty. Using narrative inquiry, this article…

In the spring of 2022, we (a teacher-educator from the USA and a Kachin graduate research assistant) interviewed 14 participants from Myanmar who were engaging in an unprecedented educational re-imagining during the Spring Revolution following the 2021 military coup that gripped the county. Three preliminary findings of our study focus on…

Building on the previous chapters in the volume, this concluding chapter provides a practical overview of theories relating to religious diversity and organizational change to outline recommended actions for practitioners across higher education functional areas who want to create a more equitable landscape for non-Christian college students.

As experts that have recently transitioned from practicing in the special education field, special education doctoral students are crucial levers that can influence special education policy and advocacy initiatives. This article details the unique role doctoral students play in this work, ways doctoral students can familiarize themselves with…