The Committee on Education and the Workforce met to hear testimony on "Calling For Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos." Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Virginia Foxx, Chairwoman, Committee on Education and the Workforce; and (2) Honorable Robert C. Scott, Ranking Member, Committee on Education and the…

The Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development met to hear testimony on "Confronting The Scourge of Antisemitism on Campus." Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Burgess Owens, Chairman, Subcommittee on Higher Education and the Workforce Development; and (2)…

Food insecurity has been identified as an understudied risk factor for weight-based stigma and discrimination. This study leverages data from 1,904 working-age adults to examine the food insecurity--weight-based discrimination relationship, as well as tests gender differences for this association. Logistic regression models revealed that food…

Language is a carrier of culture, identity, and skills that impacts vocational behaviors. However, the role of English language in Asian international students' experiential sources of self-efficacy has not been assessed. The present study aims to explore the relations between sociolinguistic experiences, including English proficiency (EP) and…

Objective: We examined the association between microaggressions, discrimination, and transgender students' experience of food insecurity (FI). Participants: Data were from the National College Health Assessment conducted 2019-2022. Of 334,957 participants, 8,618 were transgender. Methods: Descriptive statistics and mediation analyses were…

Research on education in emergencies underscores the significant structural obstacles refugee children encounter in accessing education within low- and middle-income countries. However, there remains a notable gap in understanding the challenges confronted by transnational migrant children and the evolving nature of these challenges amidst…

Student-student relationships, as forms of peer interaction, are central components in school life and exert positive effects on children. Based on social cognitive theory, the current study examined the mediating effect of perceived discrimination on the association between student-student relationships and bullying victimization and the…

In this study, we introduce a critical assessment of methodological assumptions made by researchers when using correspondence tests to measure ethnic discrimination. We aim to investigate whether (1) the order in which the applications are sent out, between the test and control person, (2) the conducted matched triad tests, in comparison to…

Vicarious exposure to discrimination can result in multiple negative outcomes in youth. In this article, we offer a conceptual model that articulates the intersecting contextual factors and potential moderators for U.S. Latine youth's exposure to family-level vicarious racism, and explore how that affects youth and family responses. We define and…

Microaggressions are commonplace overt and covert forms of discrimination that convey disparaging messages to individuals who hold marginalized identities, including people with disabilities (PWD). Although PWD are a prevalent nondominant identity group in the United States, little is known about the occurrence of ableist microaggressions in this…

This dissertation investigates how decision-makers, such as teachers or law enforcement agencies, may discriminate against individuals from different racial and gender demographic groups in the context of technology usage. It analyzes the impact of seeing identifying information (such as names, photos, and emails) and signals of quality (such as…

Background: People who have a stutter are often viewed negatively by others. Acknowledgement--defined as notifying others up front about characteristics that might lead one to be evaluated negatively--might be an effective impression management strategy for people stigmatized by stuttering. Past research testing this hypothesis, however, has…

The "Nakba" (Arabic for "catastrophe") was the mass displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, when the state of Israel was created. Many Palestinians who fled in 1948 never saw their homes--and in some cases, Palestine itself--again. They were forced to settle elsewhere in what are now called the occupied…

There is an emerging debate in the field as to whether or not Holocaust education is effective in combating antisemitism. This paper aims to provide explanations for the frequently observed ineffectiveness of Holocaust education in reducing antisemitism by examining two cases that are in many ways diametrically opposed: Scotland as a former part…

This paper was the first to analyze the magnitude, temporal evolution, and decomposition of socioeconomic segregation in Chilean higher education, over the period 2009 to 2017, in which relevant policies aimed at strengthening inclusion and equity in the system were introduced. Two segregation indices, the dissimilarity index and the square root…