The Journal of Higher Education
Wednesday, October 7
Organizational Virtue Signaling, Tier-one Excellence, & Legitimation Liabilities: A Critical Policy Analysis on the Role of Urban HSIs in the Transfer Pipeline
Purpose This instrumental case study of organizational legitimation and socio-legal pressures investigates the (un)intended policy outcomes of Texas House Bill 51—a performance-based funding model.Research Questions Through critical policy analysis, this study asks how emerging research policy contexts exacerbate…
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Wednesday, September 30
Who Pays When the Government Taxes Colleges?
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced a 1.4% excise tax on the net investment income of select nonprofit colleges. Affected colleges warned that the tax would force them to cut educational spending and reduce financial aid to students. Using a triple-difference design that exploits the policy’s dual eligibility…
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Monday, September 28
Campus Engagement and Climate-Based Factors Associated With Academic Achievement of Collegiate Athletes: A Meta-Analytic Investigation
In the ever-evolving landscape of intercollegiate athletics, postsecondary institutions are increasingly committed to creating inclusive environments that enable collegiate athletes to thrive academically. Some of the influential factors shaping athletes’ academic achievement may be their experiences of campus…
doi.orgBeyond the Blueprint: Navigating Higher Education for Students with Autism and Co-Occurring Disabilities
Although research on autistic college student success is growing, less is known about those who navigate both autism and co-occurring disabilities during college. This mixed-methods study employs a rigorous proposition testing approach to address critical gaps in the literature. Drawing on national survey and…
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Thursday, September 24
Friday, September 18
The Role of Microgrants in Improving Low-Income Students’ Academic and Financial Outcomes Across Demographic Characteristics
This quasi-experimental study examined the effectiveness of a one-time institutional microgrant program on academic and financial outcomes among Pell-eligible undergraduate students. Academic outcomes investigated included retention to the next semester, degree completion, attempted credit hours, and grade point…
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Wednesday, September 9
Canaries in the Field: Admission Professionals, Racial Crisis, and Systemic Inequity in a Color-Evasive Organization
Guided by a racism-conscious theoretical framework for understanding organizational behavior, this study illustrates how systemic inequity is reproduced in elite-college admissions. Using critical-qualitative case study methods, including interviews with 18 admission personnel, I examine four mechanisms of…
doi.orgServingness 2.0: A Renewed Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding Servingness in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs)
The Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding Servingness in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) made a significant contribution to HSI practice and research. Despite recent federal attacks on HSIs and loss of funding, HSIs will continue to enroll a significant number of Latine students and grapple with…
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Friday, August 21
Beyond the Binary: How Asian American Students at Elite Universities Make Meaning of Race-Conscious Admissions
doi.orgCrossing Borders and Telling Stories: A Narrative Inquiry of Asian International Students’ Engagement in U.S. Racial Justice Activism
International students’ engagement in racial justice activism remains understudied. Guided by International Student Critical Race Theory (IntlCrit) and using narrative inquiry, this study examines how transnational and institutional influences shaped Asian international students’ engagement in U.S. racial justice…
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Tuesday, August 18
A Muddy Climb: Organizational Conditions That Enhance Perceptions of Fairness for Non-Tenure Track Faculty Navigating Promotion
Although higher education institutions have increasingly put in place promotion policies and processes for non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF), little research has examined how NTTF navigate these nascent organizational structures. This qualitative case study investigates the experiences of 26 full-time NTTF at a large…
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Thursday, August 13
Developing Social Capital for College Teaching: Exploring Connections Between Faculty Teaching-Focused Personal Networks and Evidence-Based Teaching
Evidence-based teaching is widely recognized as critical for student learning in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM), yet whether and how faculty develop these instructional practices through their social ties remains less well understood. To illuminate these dynamics, this study…
doi.orgFinancial Vulnerability: A Latent Class Approach to Understanding the Relationship Between Student Success and Financial Situations at Community Colleges
As institutions strive to enhance their interventions for students facing financial stress, additional research into who these students are and how their financial choices are associated with their persistence is critical. In this study, we focus on how student tuition financing is associated with student persistence.…
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Tuesday, August 11
The Commodification of Doctoral Student Agency in STEM Lab Supervision: A Phenomenologically Directed Study
Higher education research on STEM lab supervision has often addressed the dynamics of doctoral agency through three parallel strands of scholarship: the restriction of research judgment, the redefinition of scholarly self-understanding, and the redirection of agency toward productivity-oriented self-management. What…
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Wednesday, August 5
Out of the Gate: The Relationship Between Dual Enrollment Gateway Course-Taking and College Academic Momentum
This study explores the relationship between dual enrollment (DE) math and English gateway course-taking and academic momentum indicators — earning 30 credits by the end of the first year, first-year credit accumulation, and persistence to the third semester. The study is based on a sample of first-time freshmen at…
doi.orgHispanic Serving? Exploring the Impact of the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program
Approximately 20 percent of all U.S. postsecondary institutions are eligible to apply for a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) grant, with over a 90 percent increase since 2010. Despite extensive descriptive and qualitative research on Latine-serving institutions (HSIs), fewer quantitative studies have examined how an…
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Monday, August 3
“An Enrollment Opportunity That’s Aligned with Who We Are” A Critical Analysis of Campus Presidents Supporting Prison Education During Targeted Incarceration
This qualitative study draws upon semi-structured interviews with 31 college and university presidents whose institutions host prison education programs. We examine how presidents justify their support for prison education and find three dominant themes among their narratives: mission and margin, knowledge and…
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Tuesday, July 21
Perhaps You Should Use a Colon: Predicting Citation Counts of U.S. Higher Education Journal Articles
The reputations of researchers and journals alike are substantially based on the frequency with which their publications are cited. Some inquiry has examined predictors of citation counts, but these studies generally do not examine education research, and the findings often diverge considerably across disciplines or…
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Thursday, July 16
Job Values and Career Choices of STEM PhD Graduates: Evidence from the 2023 Survey of Doctorate Recipients
Contemporary doctoral education is situated within a changing labor market shaped by gender inequity, disciplinary difference, and regional opportunity structure, yet little is known about how students’ job values predict career choices. Guided by the Theory of Work Adjustment and Warr’s Vitamin Model, we examined…
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