The purpose of this article is to share UNCF's promising practices for implementing the Careers Pathways Initiative at HBCUs, which include: (1) involving faculty throughout planning and implementation phases; (2) identifying a point of contact with a direct reporting line to leadership; (3) imbedding the initiative into the curriculum; and (4)…

Pacific Islanders (PI) continue to be underrepresented in all sectors of higher education, including students, staff, and faculty. For example, data from the 2010 Census reveals that less than 20 percent, or one fifth, of Pacific Islander adults aged 25 or older hold a bachelor's degree (EPIC & AAJC, 2014). These data point to an urgent need…

Just as important as the power of student activism to catalyze change on college campuses is the potential of Ethnic Studies and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) programs to create the conditions for college students to develop their consciousness of systemic injustices and capacities to engage in…

In this article, the author discusses how relationships are central in enacting an Ethnic Studies pedagogy in the role of a student affairs administrator charged with the development and implementation of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AA&PI) Student Services-Asian American and Pacific Islander Retention and Education (ASPIRE), the first…

At North Carolina State University (NC State), first-year master's students in the Higher Education Administration program enroll in the Foundations of Higher Education & Student Affairs (EAC 540) course that provides an introduction to the field of higher education and student affairs administration, including the historical and philosophical…

Studies have shown that parental involvement plays an important role in their children's academic success (Castro et al., 2015), but the problem is that many parents do not know how to help their children and often end up creating additional and unnecessary stress for their children as well as having their children develop negative attitudes…

Because of the learning needs of Generation Z (Gen Z) college students, those born between the mid-1990s to the late-2000s, the authors explore how professor-student interactions can be used to drive student success. Face-to-face lectures have served as the backbone to university instruction for decades and in the 2000s were joined by online,…

During the 2017-2018 academic year, the authors co-supervised a building of 29 resident advisors (RAs) and approximately 1,000 undergraduate students in a large residence hall. To ensure that this community is successful each year, Housing & Residence Life (HRL) at Virginia Tech places two full-time professionals in this residence hall. This…

In this article, the author shares the story of Kristin, a low-income single mother raising her six-year-old son Max in Southern California. Taking 13 college credits, Kristin bartended nights and weekends, while raising Max on her own. The author met Kristin while studying the experiences of low-income mothers enrolled in college in the…

In higher education, the underachievement of minority males is consistently reflected in research, where data have shown a persistence gap separating minority males from other student groups in measures of academic progress and college completion. Campuses typically did little, if anything, to build the capacity of faculty and staff to educate and…

Visuals and images are ubiquitous on college campuses and with the lives of students, faculty, and staff. Increasingly students, administrators, and faculty have access to the means of creation, production, and distribution of images. While particular images are crafted by institutions to communicate particular messages, the use of visuals and…

Systemic oppression is a pervasive and insidious problem in U.S. society. In higher education, challenging oppression sometimes requires exposing how institutions perpetuate violence toward minoritized populations, passionate confrontations with people who have committed undeniably egregious acts or are key powerbrokers actively perpetuating…

Imagine being one of the most nationally visible, yet highly invisible student population in America. That is the reality for Arab American students on college campuses. How can visibility be created to support Arab American students on college campuses? Educators need to look at the way this minority is invisible in the curriculum. Educators are…

The authors of this article are both men of color (Chicano and Filipino) and former student affairs educators. For over a year, the authors have been engaged in a multiple case study of five comprehensive state universities that have institutionalized support for men of color. The study sites are all within the same state higher education system,…

St. Philip's College is the only community college in the nation that is both a Historically Black College (HBCU) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The college has a long history of evolving to serve the local population in San Antonio, Texas. Currently, more than 50 percent of St. Philip's students are Latinx, 29 percent are White, and 12…