The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent move of higher education to online courses has disrupted the learning paths of many students. Social network data were collected from two cohorts of students, those starting their higher education in normal conditions in 2017 and those starting in 2020 during the pandemic. The findings showed that students…

Youth in foster care experience disproportionate rates of abusive relationships, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Extant research points to the need for interventions at multiple levels of the social ecology, however, there is a lack of evidence to guide the development of coordinated interventions for youth, foster…

Peer socialization agents (PSAs; e.g., resident assistants, orientation leaders) are trained to facilitate belonging through formal socialization initiatives. We used secondary qualitative data analysis, in combination with a critical constructivist approach, to explore PSAs' sense of belonging and the contexts in which they experience it through…

This qualitative case study explored assistant principals' practices in instructional leadership. This study was conducted in two small school districts in the South Texas Region 1 area. Research questions included (a) What instructional leadership behaviors are assistant principals in Region 1 engaged in? (b) What support is needed for assistant…

The purpose of this study was to understand the perspectives of northeastern suburban school leaders regarding the implementation of culturally responsive leadership practices. Three frameworks that guided this study were culturally responsive leadership, transformational leadership, and transformative leadership framework. There are bodies of…

Traditional professional development models for principals focused on managerial tasks are presented in isolated, task-driven episodes. Today's principals lead complex and challenging high-accountability environments along with playing an expanded role of instructional leadership for boosting student achievement. The problem is school principals…

This study, the first of its kind uses Black Feminist Thought as a framework to explore and investigate how Black women at Ivy League graduate schools of education make meaning of thriving. There are limited studies that center the voices of Black women at Ivy League graduate schools and there are no studies that look specifically at Ivy League…

Through a basic qualitative research design, I sought to explore interpersonal leadership and its main functions. The individual opinions of 18 directors of leadership were solicited to explore how leaders are developing the next generation of leaders, their practices used to accomplish this, and how they facilitated development. I further sought…

It is essential to include all individuals who can contribute to research, education, and society, especially those from diverse backgrounds and abilities. Yet dis/abled graduate students have been ignored in institutional policies, departmental practices, instruction, advising, and research. Responding to this gap in knowledge, I explore the…

In this article, the authors explore how to support students with disabilities in the transition to higher education by using the metaphor of acquiring a signal to represent thriving. Drawing upon the authors' research on students with disabilities, they share stories of Taylor, David, and Ali as they transition into college life. They then use…

In this case study, we show how building and/or instructional leadership teams (BLTs and ILTs) were repurposed to meet the challenge of the global health pandemic and the racial unrest associated with the murder of George Floyd in 2020. We outline how anti-racist work flourished during this critical time in one school district and led to the…

Objectives: Sexual Strategies Theory suggests people fall on a continuum between having short-term mating orientation (STMO) and long-term mating orientation. One way STMO individuals signal mating goals is via risky drinking. The current study therefore aims to investigate drinks per week (DPW) as a mediator between STMO and risky sexual behavior…

Adventure sports offer an exciting area of investigation regarding pedagogical best practices. Previous research points to the evolution of adventure sports coaching with the development and implementation of the PPTT (physical, psychological, technical, and tactical) framework. However, there is a missing area of consideration within the PPTT…

Mentorship has been identified as a vital process to career advancement. This phenomenological study consisted of in-depth interviews with women who are at the time of this study mid-level administrators in higher education who are engaged or have been engaged as a mentee and are currently or have been mentored. Using Supervisory Career Mentoring…

This qualitative study sought to further understand the experiences of rural community college students of low socioeconomic status as they navigate higher education and a differing class culture. By exploring their lived intra- and interpersonal experiences, this study also sought to better understand how these students integrate and apply new…