Despite the increase in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), role of governing boards advancing servingness is under-examined. Guided by two organizational frameworks that offer paradigmatic shifts for enrollment based institutions (Multidimensional Conceptual Framework Understanding Servingness HSIs) and governance (Equity X Governance), we explored how trustees at one Catholic HSI make sense their identity relation to fiduciary duty obedience. Drawing from an 18-month research-based...

Abstract Background Engineering can play a significant role in the public good. Changing political dynamics and surge activism among broader science community have only heightened this reality. Yet little published research exists about how engineering students develop both their technical identities to affect society. Purpose This study sought extend complicate notions of education that grapple with preparation undergraduate students. The question was following: In what ways do majoring...

State-level governing boards (SLGBs) can play an essential regulatory role as intermediaries between the public, state-elected officials, and campus-level leadership. However, these have been understudied within higher education relative to their enormous potential influence postsecondary institutions state political dynamics via ways they engage leverage discourse in agenda setting process. To explore this latent function, authors analyze strategic plans generated by SLGBs of 33 states...

Demographic shifts within the nation have elicited an explicit and implicit call to action address issues of diversity, equity, inclusion. Topics such as curriculum, access, tuition individuals students, faculty, staff, even administrators are presently foci for equity-centered initiatives research higher education. Within equity imperative, however, one vital stakeholder group continues be ignored in both practice—governing boards As situated at highest level leadership, governance,...

More American college students spend their time working in paid employment than the past. Prior scholarship has focused on relationship between work and conventional outcomes (e.g., grades, persistence, engagement), but little is known about impact of students' civic engagement. As campuses are called to prepare for both careers life, this analysis contributes evidence regarding a potentially tenuous subsequent willingness ability connect larger community. Findings reveal that on-campus jobs...

Faculty and administrators at postsecondary institutions continue to grapple with understanding the dynamic nature of student activism. In response, National Survey Student Engagement administered a supplemental item set following 2016 presidential election, in which more than 3,000 respondents were asked about their involvement Leveraging these data, this study employed multilevel modeling measure relationship between activist behaviors backgrounds, high-impact practice (HIP) participation,...

Substantive cross-racial interaction on college campuses has been known to have positive effects student learning and development (Chang, Astin, & Kim, 2004). However, literature shows that students from different minoritized racial groups often remain separated majority White groups, such as fraternities, thus prohibiting each group realize the benefits could offer (Sidanius, Laar, Levin, Sinclair, Utilizing focus methods, this study investigated attitudes of 20 senior, White,...

One way that institutions have responded to hostile campus environments for minoritized students is by creating bias response teams (BRTs). In this critical intrinsic case study, we examined ways 16 educators (i.e., student affairs professionals, faculty, and administrators) at a large predominantly White public university in the Midwest deployed reinforced dominant conceptions of cultural social capital when responding incidents. Findings indicate BRT work often stalls out supporting...

Purpose The purpose of this duoethnography was to share our narratives as a left-behind early career faculty (ECF) and graduate student with minoritized identities reflect on academic socialization processes. Specifically, when many scholars are raising alarms about the retention success identities, it is crucial recognize dimensions within organizational context academia. Design/methodology/approach authors sought an approach that would facilitate interrogation overlap divergence authors’...

This study focuses on the role of interpersonal experiences within students' political identity development. Based interviews with 22 undergraduate student leaders from two small liberal arts colleges in different regions country, reveals dimensions campus climate willingness or ability to be politically engaged. The article concludes recommendations how educators can work understand norms.

This study investigated how institutional leaders within an alliance navigate and use their agency to cultivate organizational change support the success of underrepresented racial minority (URM) science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) students. As part this study, we partnered with Illinois Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ILSAMP), a signature program National Science Foundation (NSF), explore our research question. The phenomenon interest is leaders’ perceptions...

In an era where many states’ postsecondary education governance dynamics are evolving, we set out to understand whether state-level governing boards with centralized functions affected institutions’ decisions engage in in-person instruction during the fall of 2020, first Covid-19 pandemic. We examined sociopolitical features related strength state boards. The data alluded linkages between Republican control and lower bachelor’s degree attainment linking (β = −.45) weaker governance. also...

Despite the positive effects of cross-racial interactions for students, predominantly White sororities remain segregated. Utilizing focus group methods, this study investigates racial attitudes sorority women to understand influence on attitudes. Findings revealed that participants in minimized race, thought about diversity within context, and perceived barriers interactions. These findings have important implications campus professionals who work with women.