...Urban schools higher education youth violence youth engagement social connectedness university-assisted community schools (UACS) Youth and community health are complex and best achieved through multidisciplinary, place-based, and highly engaged approaches to transform social space...

..., our thoughts about our lives and how we formulate our ethics to counteract dominant forms of neoliberal higher education. During the author’s time as a PhD student and then an academic, the author has found understanding self-identity and how it fits with and shapes the academic work essential...

... practice higher education Sustainability education has undergone many changes in the last five decades and generated multiple discourses about its meaning and application within higher education. However, student perspectives are largely absent from these debates. This chapter seeks to address...

..., anonymous works, nonsense verse, and spoken word. Library instruction higher education poetry children's poetry nomenclature information literacy youth poetry ACRL framework Vignette On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite...

...Abstract This chapter examines the effect of the Brexit process on international student migration from the European Union (EU) to the United Kingdom. Using administrative data on higher education students in the United Kingdom, the authors employ a dynamic and a synthetic difference...

... the author’s complex lived experience of social class in higher education. It spans 1980s Ireland, 12 years as an emigrant in England and then a return to Ireland from the 2000s onwards. It explores how the trajectory from borderline lower middle-class/working-class origins in a poor Dublin suburb through...

... of mental health in higher education and the role of the higher education institution (HEI) in promoting well-being. Mental health is a concern for all, children, adults, students, employees, and every individual. The research focuses on the mental health of students in HEIs, as they are groomed as future...

...Abstract This chapter illustrates the role of gender mainstreaming in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education within higher education institutions (HEIs) and its contribution towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 4 about Quality...

... educational institutions. It concludes with a call for comprehensive institutional reforms, including unconscious bias training, equitable promotion criteria, and continued advocacy to dismantle systemic barriers and promote diversity in higher education. Gender equality feminist institutional theory higher...

... academic libraries library transformation higher education research trends AI in education 1. Introduction Rapid advances in GenAI have launched a transformational era in a variety of areas that have a major impact on university formation, academic libraries, and research ecosystems. In contrast...

... and Research Libraries, 2010 , p. 17). Given the increased demands for evidence and accountability in higher education and in academic librarianship over the past 25 years, it is no longer necessary to try to convince Library and Information Science (LIS) readership of the necessity and centrality...

...It is vital for students, businesses, consumers, including academia at large that programs and certifications in higher education are legitimate. The credentials awarded by cross-border suppliers ought to be authentic and recognized for employment or higher learning on a national and worldwide...

... the public and their increased thirst for acquiring higher education and the benefits that come alongside it, they have begun voicing their critical opinions and desires to achieve greater benefits from these institutes. According to Miotto and Del-Castillo (2020) , public universities are facing increased...

... learnings from beginning with exploration was to demonstrate that Micro‑Credentialing was not a threat to established processes, but rather an additional option for adding value to learners and the institution. Higher education offers a unique context for innovation involving Micro‑credentials...

... Responsibilities Besides the talk of students’ rights, there is also a dire need to highlight the responsibilities that accompany the right to higher education. Academic institutes, schools, or universities often tend to be victims of problems like conflict and disobedience among their members based on proximity...

... and academic achievement, will be explored. This chapter will examine the understanding of inclusion across different geo-politico-socio-cultural contexts for a more nuanced view of inclusion. Diversity equity inclusion higher education policies leadership practices Introduction Education, particularly...

...Abstract Intellectual Property (IP) and academic freedom are two fundamental concepts in the realm of higher education. While the former is concerned with the protection of the rights of innovators, the latter aims to foster a conducive environment for knowledge and research advancement...

... for some Black males in higher education and beyond. Rather than focusing on the difficulties, the authors discovered at one institution that membership in Employer Resource Groups (ERGs) enhances eudaimonic happiness—a type of happiness driven by purpose and meaning—through fostering belonging, support...

... to “their intersecting identities within the context of predominantly white environments” ( Gayles & Smith, 2024 , p. 21). Smith (2024) identified that as a result, African American women in higher education are often disadvantaged and forced to navigate the walls of whiteness ( Brunsma et al., 2012...

...Black feminism mentoring liberatory research research teams community higher education In the warmth of a sunlit classroom, a group of graduate students gathered around a grand, circular, wooden table. It was a familiar space for them, a counterspace that had become...