Call for Participation – Volume 2 is Coming soon!
Learn more about format, licensing, and other information on the submission guidelines page:
A New Type of Journal
The International Journal of Equity and Social Justice in Higher Education is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal. This new type of journal focuses on promoting change related to social justice and equity in higher education.
Who?
This journal seeks to publish a variety of voices and perspectives on higher education:
- students,
- staff, student affairs, leadership,
- community members, and
- part-time and full-time faculty.
What?
This journal seeks to publish a variety of media including:
- video,
- audio,
- images, and
- text articles in a digital online format.
How?
This journal also supports a variety of creation modalities including:
- online spaces for academic conversations and idea generation,
- collaborative and cooperative authorship,
- preview and feedback from peers throughout creation phases,
- peer review as support during publication phases, as well as
- individual work.
What topics?
The first edition will focus on the theory and practice of antiracist and culturally responsive/sustaining teaching, working, and being in higher education. Submissions seek to explore and reflect on one or more of these kinds of questions:
- Why is this important? Where do you start? How do you plan for these teaching methods/practices? How do you create professional development around these topics?
- How does one persist through difficulty and resistance? What are practices for ongoing and continuous improvement?
- How are these practices applied at system, institution, department/division, classroom levels? How are these applications connected?
- How are these teaching methods/practices infused into facilitation, curriculum, and assessment? How do these teaching methods/practices play out in different contexts and disciplines?
- How do these teaching methods occur in different modalities (asynchronous online, synchronous online, hybrid/blended courses, face-to-face)?
When?
The journal will publish one edition per year. Important 2022 dates:
- To express interest in participating in the Learning Community for collaboration or preview/feedback, please contact elizabeth.harsma@mnsu.edu
- The deadline to submit a finished product for peer review will be: June 1, 2022.
- The first edition publication date is September 1, 2022.
Contact
For questions about this journal and call for participation, please reach out!
