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…

The article reveals the key problems of professional training of advocates; analyzes the features of basic legal education and the system of advanced training; and discusses key approaches to state control over the quality of education. In the course of the study, it was determined that the main problems of professional training of advocates are…

Community College Reentry Programs (CCRPs) are campus-based programs that serve formerly incarcerated students by providing targeted services attuned to their needs. Currently, there are 62 community colleges in California that have CCRPs. While emerging research has begun to examine the experiences of students in these programs, little is known…

This study explores the interplay between digital leadership, knowledge-sharing behavior, and institutional change in higher education institutions (HEIs) through the lens of the Institutional Theory of Leadership, with a focus on advancing higher education for sustainable development (ESD). We develop theoretical arguments and provide empirical…

In 2020, 10 visionary undergraduate students across Canada were brought together through the 3M National Student Fellowship and tasked with developing a project that furthers STLHE's mission of enhancing teaching and learning in higher education. To address a need for increased national collaboration among student groups and to unify student…

Through the lens of resilience-based student success frameworks, this article aims to illustrate how small-scale individual actions such as early outreach and student advocacy work, can bolster student outcomes and surround first-generation, low income, and underrepresented college students with a community of support.

This paper uses critical archival analysis, paired with textual analysis of grant descriptions, to understand how nine foundations -- all with endowments derived from the student loan industry -- have motivated their college completion work and the relationship between these commitments and grantmaking over time (2000-2019). Mobilizing concepts of…

Throughout the United States, the makeup of our student population continues to change, growing more diverse where our teaching populations grow stagnant and consist of White women. Can teacher preparation programs do more to meet the needs of their evolving student population? Unfortunately, few studies on teacher preparation programs can refute…

This study analyzes educators' conceptions of STEM education at the beginning of an online graduate course for in-service teachers. It offers a qualitative thematic analysis of educators' initial conception of STEM education and their roles as STEM educators through the use of concept maps and reflection statements. Conceptions of STEM varied…

Psychology has witnessed an upsurge in discussions around institutional racism as a response to global anti-racist activism following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 by a police officer in Minneapolis, USA. Within academic institutions, students have been challenging institutional racism for years, highlighting how the whiteness of…

'Institutionalising open education-open teaching in the university culture is about leadership envisioning and leading sustainable change.' This article seeks to provoke a dialogue and we welcome your feedback in our social media spaces.

In this paper we present the Advancing Racial Equity in Community College Model which maps out the organizational conditions shaping institutional transformation. Focused on two dimensions, the level of "organizational support" and "shared responsibility" to enact equity, we describe four quadrants with distinct organizational…

This reflective essay addresses the nexus of two recent events in the United States: (1) the public scrutiny of the relationship between land grant universities and the expropriation of Indigenous lands and (2)the often uncritical and rapid uptake of settler land acknowledgments at public college and university events. We argue that written land…

This study explored the experiences of White women working in higher education and their capacity and willingness to participate in allyship behavior towards diversity, equity, and inclusion changes on campus. White women may utilize their majority social identity to become allies for and advocates of multicultural competence and understanding on…

This article introduces a semester-length activity designed to foster a critical consciousness among Lambda Pi Eta (LPH) members. Through discussion-based workshops on campus public memory, LPH members learn to think critically about how universities celebrate their history in a manner that perpetuates hegemonic power relations. Then, LPH members…