The Journal of Higher Education

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Mitchell Chang

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Volume 92, issue 7, 2021

Editor’s Comment pp. 1021-1027

Mitchell James Chang

Equalizing or Stratifying? Intergenerational Persistence across College Degrees pp. 1028-1058

Anna Manzoni

Why Policymakers in Georgia and Indiana Barred Incarcerated College Students from State Financial Aid pp. 1059-1084

Bradley D. Custer

Debating Diversity and Social Justice Curricular Requirements: How Organizational Culture at a Liberal Arts College Informed the Change Process pp. 1085-1108

Ryan A. Miller and Paul Holliday-Millard

Cultural Capital and Opportunities for Exceptionalism: Bias in University Admissions pp. 1109-1139

Uma Mazyck Jayakumar and Scott E. Page

What We Talk about When We Talk about Rigor: Examining Conceptions of Academic Rigor pp. 1140-1163

K. C. Culver, John M. Braxton and Ernest T. Pascarella

White Hoarders: A Portrait of Whiteness and Resource Allocation in College Algebra pp. 1164-1185

Naomi W. Nishi

Volume 92, issue 6, 2021

Do Promise Programs Reduce Student Loans? Evidence from Tennessee Promise pp. 847-876

Taylor K. Odle, Jason C. Lee and Steven P. Gentile

Teaching Innovation Capacities in Undergraduate Leadership Courses: The Influence of a Short-Term Pedagogical Intervention pp. 877-896

Matthew J. Mayhew, Benjamin Selznick, Lini Zhang, Amy Barnes and Sarah Mangia

Philanthropic Foundations and Higher Education: The Politics of Intermediary Organizations pp. 897-926

Nabih Haddad

Accelerating College Remediation: Examining the Effects of Math Course Redesign on Student Academic Success pp. 927-960

Angela Boatman

Grade Expectations: The Role of First-Year Grades in Predicting the Pursuit of STEM Majors for First- and Continuing-Generation Students pp. 961-985

Marissa E. Thompson

Tuition, Targeting, and Tradeoffs: A Conjoint Analysis of Americans’ Preferences over the Design of Higher Education Subsidies pp. 986-1017

Samuel J. Imlay

Call for Nominations/Applications for Editorship of the Journal of Higher Education pp. 1018-1020

The Editors

Volume 92, issue 5, 2021

Editor’s Comment pp. 677-679

Mitchell James Chang

“If Lil’ Wayne Can Say It, Why Can’t I?”: White Male Undergraduates Using the N-Word pp. 680-703

Nolan L. Cabrera and Dee Hill-Zuganelli

What’s the “Problem” of Considering Criminal History in College Admissions? A Critical Analysis of “Ban the Box” Policies in Louisiana and Maryland pp. 704-734

Royel M. Johnson, Rafael E. Alvarado and Kelly Ochs Rosinger

Instructors’ Conceptions of Minoritized College Students’ Prior Knowledge and Their Related Teaching Practices pp. 735-759

Milagros Castillo-Montoya and Jillian Ives

“I Belong Because It Wasn’t Made for Me”: Understanding Working-Class Students’ Sense of Belonging on Campus pp. 760-783

Genia M. Bettencourt

“It Seems like They Purposefully Try to Make as Many Kids Drop”: An Analysis of Logics and Mechanisms of Racial-Gendered Inequality in Introductory Mathematics Instruction pp. 784-814

Luis A. Leyva, R. Taylor McNeill, Brittany L. Marshall and Oscar A. Guzmán

Lost in the Transition: The Cost of College-Readiness English Standards Misalignment for Students Initially Classified as English Learners pp. 815-846

Tatiana Melguizo, Stella Flores, David Velasquez and Tim Carroll

Volume 92, issue 4, 2021

Higher Education for California Native Nation Building: A Retrospective on College Experience and Completion pp. 499-521

Theresa Stewart-Ambo

How Neoliberalism Shapes the Role and Responsibility of Faculty Members for Eliminating Sexual Violence pp. 522-545

Sarah Socorro Hurtado

Beneath the White Noise of Postsecondary Sorting: A Case Study of the “Low” Track in Higher Education pp. 546-569

Amy E. Stich

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Potential of State-Level Governing Boards in Postsecondary Education Policy Agenda-Setting pp. 570-595

Demetri L. Morgan, Raquel M. Rall, Felecia Commodore, Rachel A. Fischer and Sam Bernstein

Ambiguous Credentials: How Learners Use and Make Sense of Massively Open Online Courses pp. 596-622

Krystal Laryea, Andreas Paepcke, Kathy Mirzaei and Mitchell L. Stevens

Notions of Human Capital and Academic Identity in the PhD: Narratives of the Disempowered pp. 623-647

Lynette Pretorius and Luke Macaulay

Boundary Crossing Between Academia and Law: Understanding Researchers’ Participation in Legal Cases Pertaining to Educational Equity pp. 648-675

Liliana M. Garces, Briana Hinga and Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

Volume 92, issue 3, 2021

Contingent Faculty Employment and Financial Stress in Public Universities pp. 331-362

James C. Hearn and Rachel Burns

The Constraints of Fear and Neutrality in Title IX Administrators’ Responses to Sexual Violence pp. 363-384

Jacqueline Cruz

How Change Unravels: The Failure of Ideal-centered Organizational Change at Regional Comprehensive Universities pp. 385-409

Cecilia M. Orphan and J. Matthew Hartley

The Equity Cost of Inter-Sector Math Misalignment: Racial and Gender Disparities in Community College Student Outcomes pp. 410-434

Federick Ngo and Tatiana Melguizo

Institutional Selectivity and Occupational Outcomes for STEM Graduates: A Generational Comparison pp. 435-464

Jeongeun Kim, Jiwon Jung and Yeukai Angela Mlambo

Strategies of Resistance among Racially Minoritized Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Critical Race Theory Perspective pp. 465-498

Eddie Comeaux, Sara E. Grummert and Nelly A. Cruz

Volume 92, issue 2, 2021

College Choice, Interrupted: Understanding the Choice Processes of Hurricane-Affected Puerto Rican Students in Florida pp. 169-193

Awilda Rodriguez, Enid Rosario-Ramos, Paula Clasing Manquian and Adriana Rosario Colón

By Lack of Reciprocity: Positioning Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Organizational Field of Higher Education pp. 194-226

Graham N. S. Miller, Freda B. Lynn and Laila I. McCloud

Trailblazers, Reciprocity, and Doctoral Education: The Pursuit of Critical Race Praxis and Survivance among Doctoral Students of Color pp. 227-251

Tuesda S. Roberts, Lorena Gutiérrez, ThedaMarie Gibbs Grey and Raven Jones Stanbrough

Navigating Challenges to Facilitate Success for College Students with Autism pp. 252-278

Bradley E. Cox, Jeffrey Edelstein, Bailey Brogdon and Amanda Roy

Multiracial Faculty Members’ Experiences with Biculturalism pp. 279-302

Jessica C. Harris and Tiera Tanksley

Scientific Collaboration on COVID-19 Amidst Geopolitical Tensions between the US and China pp. 303-329

Jenny J. Lee and John P. Haupt

Volume 92, issue 1, 2021

Legitimating Prestige through Diversity: How Higher Education Institutions Represent Ethno-Racial Diversity across Levels of Selectivity pp. 1-30

Megan M. Holland and Karly Sarita Ford

The Role of Selective College Admissions Criteria in Interrupting or Reproducing Racial and Economic Inequities pp. 31-55

Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Karly Sarita Ford and Junghee Choi

Interaction across Ideological Boundaries and College Outcomes pp. 56-83

Jiali Luo

Shining the Spotlight on Those outside Florida’s Reform Limelight: The Impact of Developmental Education Reform for Nonexempt Students pp. 84-115

Christine G. Mokher, Toby Park-Gaghan and Shouping Hu

Making Meaning of the Mid-Level Administrator Roles in International Student Service Centers pp. 116-139

Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif, Hugo A. García and Jon McNaughtan

From Exclusive to Inclusive: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Study Abroad Participation and Practices pp. 140-167

Melissa Whatley and Amy E. Stich

Volume 91, issue 7, 2020

From Community College to Graduate School: Exploring the Role of Academic Advisors in Promoting Graduate Education at Baccalaureate Degree-granting Community Colleges pp. 1003-1027

Edna Martinez and Chinasa Elue

Developing a College-Going Habitus: How First-Generation Latina/o/x Students Bi-directionally Exchange Familial Funds of Knowledge and Capital within Their Familias pp. 1028-1052

Courtney L. Luedke

A National Study of the Financial Implications of Community College Baccalaureate Adoption pp. 1053-1086

Justin C. Ortagus and Xiaodan Hu

Reconciling Intent with Action: Factors Associated with the Alignment between Transfer Intent and Coursework Completion Patterns among Two-Year College Students in STEM pp. 1087-1115

Hsun-Yu Chan and Xueli Wang

The Importance of Community Colleges in Students’ Choice to Major in STEM pp. 1116-1148

Martha Bottia, Elizabeth Stearns, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephanie Moller and Cayce Jamil

Whose Data? Which Rights? Whose Power? A Policy Discourse Analysis of Student Privacy Policy Documents pp. 1149-1178

Michael Brown and Carrie Klein

Volume 91, issue 6, 2020

The Facade of Fit in Faculty Search Processes pp. 833-857

Damani K. White-Lewis

Partisanship, White Racial Resentment, and State Support for Higher Education pp. 858-887

Barrett J. Taylor, Brendan Cantwell, Kimberly Watts and Olivia Wood

The Politics of Designing Tuition-Free College: How Socially Constructed Target Populations Influence Policy Support pp. 888-926

Elizabeth Bell

A Competitive System: Graduate Student Recruitment in STEM and Why Money May Not be the Answer pp. 927-952

Whitney E. Wall Bortz, David B. Knight, Chelsea H. Lyles, Timothy Kinoshita, Nathan H. Choe, Maya Denton and Maura Borrego

Othermothering: Exploring African American Graduate Students’ Decision to Pursue the Doctorate pp. 953-976

Carmen M. McCallum

Owning Faith: First-Year College-Going and the Development of Students’ Self-Authored Worldview Commitments pp. 977-1002

Matthew J. Mayhew, Alyssa N. Rockenbach and Laura S. Dahl

Volume 91, issue 5, 2020

Editor’s Comment pp. 651-652

Mitchell James Chang

A Culture of Success: Black Alumnae Discussions of the Assets-Based Approach at Spelman College pp. 653-673

Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Jacqueline M. Forbes, Shelby Rogers and Tangela Blakely Reavis

To Be Black Women and Contingent Faculty: Four Scholarly Personal Narratives pp. 674-697

Christa J. Porter, Candace M. Moore, Ginny J. Boss, Tiffany J. Davis and Dave A. Louis

Existing and Resisting: The Pedagogical Realities of Black, Critical Men and Women Faculty pp. 698-721

Chayla Haynes, Leonard Taylor, Steve D. Mobley and Jasmine Haywood

Affirmative Intervention to Reduce Stereotype Threat Bias: Experimental Evidence from a Community College pp. 722-754

Dominique J. Baker, Benjamin T. Skinner and Christopher H. Redding

Interdisciplinary Cluster Hiring Initiatives in U.S. Research Universities: More Straw than Bricks? pp. 755-780

Quinn Bloom, Michaela Curran and Steven Brint

The Relationship of First-Year Residence Hall Roommate Assignment Policy with Interactional Diversity and Perceptions of the Campus Environment pp. 781-804

Kevin Fosnacht, Robert M. Gonyea and Polly A. Graham

Sticking with STEM: Understanding STEM Career Persistence among STEM Bachelor’s Degree Holders pp. 805-831

Samantha M. R. Jelks and Andrew M. Crain

Volume 91, issue 4, 2020

Borrowing Smarter or Borrowing More? Investigating the Effects of a Change in Federal Loan Policy pp. 483-513

Jason C. Lee, Erin B. Ciarimboli, Paul G. Rubin and Manuel S. González Canché

The Value of an Incomplete Degree: Heterogeneity in the Labor Market Benefits of College Non-Completion pp. 514-539

Matt S. Giani, Paul Attewell and David Walling

Parents and Families of First-Generation College Students Experience Their Own College Transition pp. 540-564

Casandra Elena Harper, Hao Zhu and Judy Marquez Kiyama

Ley de la Vida: Latina/o Immigrant Parents Experience of Their Children’s Transition to Higher Education pp. 565-587

Stephany Cuevas

Capitalizing Baccalaureate Degree Attainment: Identifying Student and Institution Level Characteristics that Ensure Success for Latinxs pp. 588-619

Lucy Arellano

Building Readiness and Intention Towards STEM Fields of Study: Using HSLS:09 and SEM to Examine This Complex Process among High School Students pp. 620-650

Elizabeth R. Kurban and Alberto F. Cabrera

Volume 91, issue 3, 2020

Taking College Teachers’ Working Conditions Seriously: Adjunct Faculty and Negotiating a Labor-based Conception of Quality pp. 327-352

Gary Rhoades

Better Positioned to Teach the Rules than to Change Them: University Actors in Two Low-Income, First-Generation Student Support Programs pp. 353-377

Becca Spindel Bassett

Framing the Search: How First-Generation Students Evaluate Colleges pp. 378-401

Megan M. Holland

College-Going Trajectories Across Early Adulthood: An Inquiry Using Sequence Analysis pp. 402-432

David B. Monaghan

Blue Lights and Pepper Spray: Cisgender College Women’s Perceptions of Campus Safety and Implications of the “Stranger Danger” Myth pp. 433-454

Chris Linder and Marvette Lacy

Understanding the Impact of a Multi-Institutional STEM Reform Network through Key Boundary-Spanning Individuals pp. 455-482

Lucas B. Hill

Volume 91, issue 2, 2020

Bridging Divides: Understanding Knowledge Producers’ Perspectives on the Use of Research in Law pp. 167-191

Patricia Marin, John T. Yun, Liliana M. Garces and Catherine L. Horn

How the Sausage is Made: An Examination of a State Funding Model Design Process pp. 192-221

Denisa Gándara

High School All Over Again: The Problem of Redundant College Mathematics pp. 222-248

Federick J. Ngo

A Pledge of Faithfulness: How Black Christian Fraternity Men Embody Race, Gender and Religious Identities pp. 249-274

Keon M. McGuire, Joseph D. Sweet, Kenzalia Bryant-Scott, Terrence S. McTier and Emeka Ikegwuonu

Not Waving but Striving: Research Collaboration in the Context of Stratification, Segmentation, and the Quest for Prestige pp. 275-299

Blanca Torres-Olave, Ashley M. Brown, Lillianna Franco Carrera and Carlos Ballinas

The Company Regional Comprehensive Universities Desire to Keep: Choosing Institutional Membership Associations pp. 300-325

Cecilia M. Orphan and Graham N. S. Miller

Volume 91, issue 1, 2020

Campus Racial Incidents, Hate Crimes, and White Male and Female Students’ Racial Attitudes pp. 1-31

Juan Carlos Garibay, Felisha A. Herrera, Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero and Gina A. Garcia

The Vertical Transfer Penalty among Bachelor’s Degree Graduates pp. 32-57

Dirk Witteveen and Paul Attewell

News Media Representations of International and Refugee Postsecondary Students pp. 58-83

Tim Anderson

Math Counts: Major and Gender Differences in College Mathematics Coursework pp. 84-112

Daniel Douglas and Hal Salzman

Making Sense of Persistence in Scientific Purgatory: A Multi-Institutional Analysis of Instructors in Introductory Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Courses pp. 113-138

Joseph J. Ferrare and Julia M. Miller

Metrics, Money, and Managerialism: Faculty Experiences of Competing Logics in Higher Education pp. 139-164

Shawna Vican, Asia Friedman and Robin Andreasen