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Sheridan, Vera – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Refugee Background Mature Students, with many having come from the global South to seek asylum, form a minority group in higher education. This qualitative study uses a Critical Race Theory framework to examine the lived experience of four Refugee Background Mature Students from Angola and Nigeria with a focus on microaggresions, the everyday…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Refugees, College Students, Foreign Countries
Jennifer G. Cournoyer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Women now comprise the majority of the higher education workforce; yet they still experience workplace aggression at alarming rates. The purpose of this action research study was to investigate workplace aggression among women colleagues at a small, rural community college. The study also sought to create a more supportive work environment for…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Aggression, Females, Peer Relationship
Sparmer, Maria Nazare – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study was to describe the perceptions and experiences of practicing registered nurses (RN) regarding their clinical experience with faculty and horizontal violence (HV) during their nursing education. The problem is HV, a phenomenon in nursing that has increased in frequency and severity…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Attitudes, College Faculty
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Lee, Ahlam – Educational Review, 2022
This study developed a conceptual model of hierarchical microaggression phenomena in colleges and universities in the United States. Young, Anderson, and Steward coined the term "hierarchical microaggression" in 2015, which refers to microaggression towards defenceless and less powerful stakeholders. Because the hierarchical…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Aggression, Bullying
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May, Amy; Tenzek, Kelly E. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Bullying within academia often focuses on peer bullying or the student victim. However, the student bully who targets professors is a neglected area of study yet just as destructive, demeaning, and intimidating. Using a narrative lens analysis, the researchers share how the story of bullying unfolds in the classroom. Distinct triggers, such as…
Descriptors: Bullying, College Faculty, College Students, Teacher Student Relationship
Nyborg, Deborah G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore and understand relational workplace aggression among female faculty and administrators at three western U.S. universities. This study was designed to address the gap in empirical knowledge of the phenomenon by elucidating how workplace relational aggression affects the lives of female university faculty and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Women Faculty, Women Administrators