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Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice

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Editorial: A Call To Action For Sorority And Fraternity Life, Crystal E. Garcia

Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice

Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice editorial: a call to action for sorority and fraternity life.

When Everyone Is Blamed, Are All Responsible? Defining The Legal Relationship Between North American Interfraternity Conference Fraternities/National Panhellenic Conference Sororities And Universities In Harassment Cases, Colleen E. Lofton

Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice

A complex legal relationship exists between North American Interfraternity Conference fraternities/National Panhellenic Conference sororities and higher education institutions. This legal relationship has been defined for issues such as association rights and hazing, yet little research exists about this relationship in harassment cases. My review of scholarship and case law revealed that control and level of claim specificity are needed to define the relationship in instances of harassment. By understanding this legal relationship, both North American Interfraternity Conference fraternities/National Panhellenic Conference sororities and universities can continue to address harassment in higher education.

Considerations For Antiracist Practices In Sorority And Fraternity Life: A Critical Race Theory Perspective, Michael A. Goodman, Crystal E. Garcia, Stacey D. Garrett, Kaleb L. Briscoe

Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice

This conceptual piece uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a way to recognize systemic inequities within sorority and fraternity life (SFL) communities, and to advance meaningful change on college campuses. We engage histories, literature, and current events to aid practitioners and scholars in deeper considerations around antiracist education in action. Further, we provide an accompanying case study to offer practical considerations for SFL practitioners, campus administrators, and scholars seeking to engage antiracist work within these communities.

“Where I Feel Most Accepted”: Creating Queer-Affirming Fraternity Environments And Experiences, Patrick R. Githens

Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice

This study focuses on what makes undergraduate fraternity chapters affirming for openly queer members. Although studies have been published on the demographics and experiences of non-heterosexual fraternity men, there needs to be more clarity regarding what makes chapter experiences welcoming and supportive for this population of members. Through qualitative grounded theory methodology with 10 study participants from Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) Fraternity, this research found that diverse membership, leadership, and supportive interpersonal relationships contribute to an affirming chapter environment. The findings and recommendations share what fraternity undergraduate chapters can do to create and foster a queer-affirming environment.

What’S Next: Historically White Sorority Chapter Officers’ Response To 2020 Racial Events, Ericka Roland, Colette Grubman, Keri Decay

Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice

The racial events of the summer of 2020 left many searching for answers regarding racial equity. This critical phenomenological qualitative study examines how chapter officers perceived the summer 2020 racial events that influenced their leadership regarding race and racism in their historically White sorority. The study findings revealed that the racial events catalyzed the chapter officers’ self-reflections, navigation of racial organization climate, and leading chapter reflection and education. These findings have important implications for practice and scholarship supporting chapter officers’ racial consciousness leadership development.

Geometric Shapes That Sing And Move: An Interdisciplinary Lesson With Pre-Service Teachers, Gladys Krause, Gustavo Velandia

School of Education Articles

Our work shares a practical example of an interdisciplinary lesson in which two teacher educators collaborated to integrate mathematics and music in an elementary mathematics methods course. This paper describes the process of collaboration in designing the lesson and shares original instructional resources to be used in the classroom. We also discuss what the pre-service teachers participating in the lesson shared about their learning experience, and what we, the teacher educators, learned from this experience. In presenting this work we aim to promote the opening of spaces in teacher preparation programs that allow pre-service teachers to develop their own instructional …

Reflexiones Sobre La Orientación Educativa En América Latina: Un Llamado A La Acción, Syntia Santos Dietz

Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation

El presente artículo sirve como conclusión a la primera edición especial en español de la revista científica que lleva como nombre Revista de Política y Evaluación en la Consejería Basada en la Escuela (JSCPE por sus siglas en inglés), entiéndase aquí consejería como sinónimo de orientación educativa, ofreciendo un espacio de reflexión e intercambio de conocimiento científico respecto a la orientación educativa en América Latina. En este artículo se discute la importancia y necesidad de políticas públicas y proyectos de investigación en apoyo a la profesión de la orientación educativa. Se comparte una sinopsis de las temáticas discutidas en esta …

Orientación Escolar En Latinoamérica: Historia Y Contexto Actual En Legislación Y Políticas Públicas, Alfonso Barreto, George Vera, Mario Fung, Fabiola Macias, Flora Medina

Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation

El presente artículo discute brevemente algunas carac-terísticas comunes y distintivas de la orientación escolar en cuatro países latinoamericanos: Costa Rica, Honduras, México y Venezuela. La orientación escolar tiene más de cien años en Latinoamérica. Su desarrollo ha variado según cada país de la región. No obstante, existen un con-junto de asuntos que son comunes en la región. La ori-entación escolar, comúnmente referida como orientación educativa, debe ayudar a los estudiantes en la toma de decisiones que impactan su vida y carreras profesionales. Asimismo, se denota la necesidad porque los orientadores participen en discusiones relacionadas con las políticas en su campo …

Aportes De La Política Educativa Costarricense En El Servicio De Orientación Del Ministerio De Educación Pública, Catalina García

Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation

El presente artículo muestra algunas reflexiones en torno a los aportes que se dan con la entrada de la transformación curricular en el marco de la Nueva Política Educativa costarricense a la disciplina de la orientación al interno del Ministerio de Educación Pública. Las contribuciones al servicio de orientación se realizan en las tres áreas de intervención a saber: Componente Educativo, Componente Vocacional y Componente Personal Social. Se da un especial énfasis al fortalecimiento que ha tenido la orientación a raíz de la incorporación de las habilidades del siglo XXI para la potenciación y desarrollo integral de las personas estudiantes …

Fortaleciendo El Vínculo Con Las Familias Desde El Servicio De Orientación, Para Una Mejor Calidad Educativa, Mario Fung

Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation

El aporte de la familia “durante y posterior a la pandemia” es fundamental para mejorar la calidad educativa. El trabajo colaborativo desde la sinergia: hogar, escuela y estudiante es vital para una mejor preparación y para formular con éxito proyectos de vida. La educación, apoyada en los centros educativos y en el hogar, ofrece un abanico de oportunidades para que los padres, madres o personas encargadas se involucren activamente en el proceso educativo de sus hijos e hijas; así se logra una educación de calidad en donde todas las partes involucradas en este proceso sean beneficia-das.

Introducción A La Edición Especial En Castellano De La Revista Ispresc, George Vera, Alfonso Barreto

Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation

La Sociedad Internacional para la Investigación y Evaluación de Políticas en Orientación Educativa (ISPRESC) tiene entre sus objetivos fomentar la investigación en orientación educativa y la evaluación y desarrollo de políticas públicas en materia de orientación. Para ello, ISPRESC promueve la generación y diseminación de información científica-humanística, así como la colaboración con profesionales de la Orientación y afines, centros formadores de orientadores, líderes de organizaciones de Orientación, y con instituciones y servidores públicos interesados en el desarrollo de la Orientación como disciplina y profesión prestadora de servicios humanos a la sociedad. Para ISPRESC, los profesionales de la orientación en general …

Developing An Asynchronous Lgbtq+ Affirmative Counseling Training: A Mixed-Methods Study, Amber Pope, Noelle St. Germain-Sehr, Bianca Augustine, Amanda St. Germain-Sehr, Tai Lexumé, Jeff Moe, Senttra Snowden-Gregg, Tamika N. Jackson

School of Education Articles

Master's level counseling students completed a 5-week online asynchronous LGBTQ+ affirmative counseling training. Using a mixed-methods and quasi-experimental design, results indicated that participants’ LGBTQ+ knowledge, clinical skills, and advocacy increased posttraining. Content analysis revealed four themes of how students experienced the training. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.

International Education’S Academic Benefit: Potential For Community College Virtual International Exchange, Melissa Whatley

School of Education Articles

This study focuses on the potential academic benefit of virtual international exchange for community colleges and the students they enroll through a comparison of virtual exchange and study abroad. Using data from two community colleges in the US Southeast, this study draws upon the notion of socioacademic integration. Specifically, this study theorizes that both virtual exchange and study abroad have a positive relationship with students’ academic outcomes given their potential to foster socioacademic integrative moments. How- ever, given the scalability of virtual international exchange, it was expected that these programs are associated with a greater relationship to students’ academic outcomes …

From Terror To Pride: Supporting Faculty Through A Blended Learning Community Of Transformation During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mark J. Hofer, Adam Barger, Kelly Leffel, Katalin Wargo

School of Education Articles

The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote, blended, and online teaching and learning presented universities around the world with myriad challenges. This rapid shift into uncharted territory, however, also created an opportunity for faculty developers to lead exploration of new pedagogies, challenging teaching assumptions. In this article, we share the story of how a center for teaching and learning led the shift to remote and blended learning through a community of transformation (Kezar et al., 2018). We share results from a survey of faculty following multiple professional development opportunities and explore themes that emerged from interviews with six instructors …

Lingua Asia: Decolonizing Heritage Language Education, Collin Absher

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The emergence of APIA programs within higher education has assisted in posing the question of what should be included in the K-12 history curriculum as it is lacking in Asian American history, African American history, and other marginalized groups’ history and information. In tandem, heritage learning Mandarin classes, while they do attempt to bring the students' writing and reading levels up to their speaking levels, instead focus solely on Chinese history, culture, identity, and societal problems. This is valuable; however, what of the Chinese American identity? There has been a surplus of over 200 years of Chinese American history within …

“The History Of Our History”: The Preservation And Development Of The College Of William & Mary’S Wren Building As An Historic Site, Katie Moniz

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The Wren Building has been the core of the College of William & Mary for as long as it has operated. The history of the building is inseparable from that of the College. The traditions, politics, relationships, and events that make up the history of William & Mary have played out within the walls of the Wren Building—the tangible testimony of the College that has existed since the seventeenth century. For the William & Mary community, to understand the history of the Wren Building is also to understand its own identity. As such, examining the evolution of the conceptualization, preservation, …

Harnessing The Power Of Virtual Reality For Organic Chemistry Education, Jungmin Shin

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Understanding organic chemistry concepts heavily relies on visualization of the geometry of molecules and spatial arrangement of molecules during mechanisms. 2D textbook depictions have their limitations in visualizing the three-dimensionality of organic chemistry. Student learning outcomes could be greatly improved from 3D visualizations of these topics. This project explores the potential of an emerging technology, Virtual Reality (VR), being incorporated as a teaching resource for organic chemistry.

This paper discusses two trials for evaluating the potential of VR as a teaching resource for organic chemistry in select topics of the Diels-Alder reaction and R/S configurations and stereoisomers. The Diels-Alder reaction …

“It Is In Spanish”: Colaboración Como Herramienta De Transformación Educativa, Andriana Inés Ávila Zárate, Gladys Krause

School of Education Articles

El presente planteamiento describe el trabajo realizado por dos educadoras de maestras en dos contextos geográficos, culturales e idiomáticos diferentes: Colombia y Estados Unidos. Como educadoras, comparten: a) la responsabilidad de formar a futuros maestras de preescolar y primaria; y b) el interés por crear experiencias educativas que permitan expandir las perspectivas sobre lo que significa ser maestra. Las autoras proponen un marco colaborativo y plantean su implementación en la formación de maestras. Su planteamiento empieza por describir tres años de trabajo colaborativo creando espacios para que maestr@s en formación interactúen y colaboren entre ellos para el desarrollo de diferentes …

Using A Cultural Humilty Framework For Lgbtgeqiap+ Affirming Counseling Training, Amber Pope, Noelle St Germain-Sehr, Bianca Augustine, Amanda St. Germain-Sehr, Tai Lexumé

School of Education Articles

Excerpt from publication: "Although enhanced visibility has created more space for LGBTGEQIAP+ ways of being over the past few decades, anti- LGBTGEQIAP+ discourse, legislation, and acts of violence have increased in the U.S. in recent years. However, the number of LGBTGEQIAP+ Americans who self-realize their sexual, affectional, and gender expansive identities continues to increase, especially among younger generations (Jones, 2023)..."

Beyond The Exit: Moma Design Store & The Extended Museum Experience, Anna C. Wershbale

Undergraduate Honors Theses

American art museum attendance soared following World War II as museums became popular education and entertainment destinations for the growing middle class. Shaped by the influence of 1980s Reaganomics and the effects of neoliberal funding policies, museum shops developed from small information desk ventures into a vital source of public relevance and financial sustainability. When given creative liberty and economic attention, the now standardized amenity presented the opportunity to sell institutional ethos. In light of neoliberal capitalism’s tendency to construe value primarily in economic terms, shops reveal how the art museum strategically assigns new meaning to its collection, mission, and …

Applying Street-Level Bureaucracy Theory To Understand The Barriers To The Implementation Of Restorative Justice In Public School Organizations, Eric J. Reed

The William & Mary Educational Review

This systematic review identifies the barriers to implementing restorative justice programs in public school organizations. Due to the novelty of restorative justice in schools, barriers often hamper the implementation process. Thus, it was necessary to identify barriers and how they can be mitigated. The PRISMA tool was utilized to examine 17 studies. The review harnessed Lipsky’s (1980) street-level bureaucracy framework to understand the roles of street-level bureaucrats in the education bureaucracy and to understand how the barriers align with the variables that comprise the framework. The results indicated that several barriers existed which include resources, bureaucratic discretion, and role ambiguity.

Development And Validation Of The Sense Of Belonging Among Counselor Education Students Survey (Sobaces)., Allison Fears

The William & Mary Educational Review

Sense of belonging among students has been studied extensively (Gopalan & Brady, 2020), and has been shown to be a predictor of success, engagement, and well-being in college students. While studies have investigated a sense of belonging amongst specific marginalized groups within a university (e.g. Duran et al., 2020; Lewis et al., 2021; Sims et al., 2020) there have been few studies that examine a sense of belonging among master students in counselor education programs. This paper will outline the development and validation of a new instrument, Sense of Belonging among Counselor Education Students (SOBACES).

Engaging Latinx Students: A Path To Life-Long Learning, Paola Mendizabal

The William & Mary Educational Review

Although the Latino ethnic group is the largest minority and the fastest growing subgroup in the United States, they are one of the most underserved groups in public schools. This is due to many systemic issues; however, this paper focuses on student engagement. Increasing student engagement decreases student dropout rates. If we can foster high levels of engagement with Latinx students in K-12, they are more likely to graduate high school possibly with aspirations to further their education. This conceptual paper aims to answer the following questions: What factors inhibit and/or contribute to Latinx students' engagement? How do we engage …

Moving Forward In The Wake Of The Pandemic: Shifting From Schools Acting Alone To Engaged Partnerships With Families And Communities, Sheri S. Williams

The William & Mary Educational Review

Workplace shortages are a top concern for schools in times of calm and even more troubling in times of stress. Burnout is especially widespread in stressful situations of disrupted learning, trauma, and discord (e.g., Diliberti & Schwartz, 2022; Thomas et al., 2019). In the wake of the pandemic, educators struggled to deal with the stressors on their own (IES, 2022). It became clear that schools could no longer work in isolation. Moving forward in the wake of the pandemic required an intentional shift in purpose from isolated classrooms to interconnected partnerships with families and communities. In the path to recovery, …

Emerging From Critique Towards Liberation: A Framework In Leadership Education, Erica R. Wiborg, Amber Manning-Ouellette, Ericka Roland

School of Education Articles

What does liberation look like in leadership learning and education? This article offers examples for (re)imagining leadership education in program design, coordination, and assessment by centering the leadership for liberation framework and other liberatory approaches. The authors offer examples of how these frameworks serve as an entry point for college student liberatory leadership learning.

Contextual Influences In Tp(A)Ck Research: Bronfenbrenner And Beyond, Judi Harris, Ting Huang

School of Education Book Chapters

This critical review examines the past 15 years of scholarship about contextual influences in TP(A)CK to better understand its theoretical bases. While Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory is usually applied in this work, either implicitly or explicitly, its articulation is most often incomplete and/or inaccurate, with some confusion evident about the nature and foci of multiple, intersecting systems of contextual influences. We argue for a more comprehensive way to theorize context in future TP(A)CK research, using Bronfenbrenner’s systemic explanations of the complex and interdependent aspects of contextual influences and actors. We also recommend additional focus upon indirect, intersectional and sociocultural influences …

Chesapeake Bay Life Cycles, Alexandria Marquardt

Reports

Grades: 4. Subjects: Life Science | Biology | Oceanography

Use reading and comprehension to explore animal and plant life cycles Simulate a blue crab population

Do Invasive Hogs Alter Species Relationships In Salt Marshes?, Hallie Fischman

Reports

Grades: 7. Subjects: Life Science

Build a salt marsh relationship web and determine the impacts of invasive hogs

Deeper And Deeper: An Introduction To Seafloor Geology, Amy Nicholson

Reports

Grades: 4. Subjects: Earth Science | Oceanography

Identifying seafloor features and reading bathymetric profiles.