One of the major tenets of Critical Race Theory, the interest convergence hypothesis
postulates that policies promising improvements for Black Americans are enacted only to the …

For more than a century, scholars and policymakers have commented and debated on the
purposes of higher education. These conversations reflect a combination of public and …

From a postcolonial perspective, US higher education is entangled with the colonial past
and the neoliberal neo-colonial present as an economic actor that dominates global …

From threatening protestors to cutting diversity office funding on college campuses, one
contemporary brand of policymaking has overtly sought to undermine social justice efforts in …

States provide substantial support for higher education through appropriations to public
colleges and universities that can be used to maintain relatively low tuition levels and funds …

Higher education is a central institution in US democracy. In the 2010s, however, many
states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear …

Postsecondary institutions' responses to COVID-19 are a topic of immediate relevance.
Emergent research suggests that partisanship was more strongly linked to institutions …

Prior studies have documented the pattern of decreased state funding for higher education
in periods of economic contraction (ie, the balance wheel phenomenon). This qualitative …

States diverge widely when it comes to education funding choices, leading to substantial
differences in how much states spend on schooling, the role of local versus state revenue …

Using intersectionality as a framework, we examined the professional socialization and
support experiences of 12 Black first-generation (first-gen¹) women administrators in Higher …