Hustle in Higher Education: How Latinx Students with Conviction Histories Move from Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education

The voices and experiences of formerly incarcerated college students are emerging throughout the social science literature. The importance of documenting their narratives is grounded in the reality that more than an estimated 12,000 system-impacted people are enrolled throughout the California postsecondary education system. This paper highlights the knowledge and skills formerly incarcerated students possess and deploy to navigate higher education successfully. Our study adds to the growing body of literature examining the experiences of formerly incarcerated Latinx students from an anti-deficit perspective. We use the theory of funds of knowledge and semi-structured interviews with 16 formerly incarcerated Latinx students at different points of the postsecondary education pipeline to understand their experiences. We find that formerly incarcerated Latinx students tapped into their “hustle” to move from surviving to thriving in higher education. These pre-college skills, acquired through their life experiences, allow students to seek academic and financial resources, create academic networks, and make personal connections with institutional agents to overcome various personal and institutional barriers.

Nurse coaching improves healthy conditions: an integrative review of the literature

Coaching has become a popular strategy in a complex environment. Nurses who incorporate coaching into their professional practice broaden their skills and opportunities in the entire spectrum of health, wellness, and healing. The aim was to illustrate and compare coaching models and to address their relevance in health promotion. A literature review from 2010 to 2019, retrieved from MEDLINE, reference tracking, and consultation of academic networks, has led to peer-reviewed articles on coaching models for health promotion. A total of 70 articles were found, 45 of which were excluded because too generic and not specific to the clinical nursing field. Finally, only 15 articles that well respected the inclusion criteria have been selected. The implementation of coaching can be seen in several health care fields, especially in nursing, to enhance health by empowering individuals.

Create E-Newsletters, Podcasts, Wikis, Social Networks, Blogs, and Webinars

E-newsletters, podcasts, wikis, social networks, blogs, and webinars can all be important to researchers’ communication strategy. However, they should be prioritized along with the many other activities and responsibilities. Researcher should also decide what their social media “persona” should be. E-newsletters should be organized to include content users will find helpful and should be managed to observe best practices. Podcasts should observe specific technical and production requirements to make them successful. Wikis can be highly useful to share information within and among research groups. Social networks—including lay-level and academic networks—can provide valuable contacts and promote collaboration. Blogs can be useful communications with lay and professional audiences but have both pros and cons. Twitter and webinars can be a conduit to the public, as well as a useful communication tool within research groups.

Beyond cultural and geographical proximity: delving into the factors that influence the dynamics of academic relationships between students in higher education

Scholars have widely recognised the importance of academic relationships between students at the university. While much of the past research has focused on studying their influence on different aspects such as the students’ academic performance or their emotional stability, less is known about their dynamics and the factors that influence the formation and dissolution of linkages between university students in academic networks. In this paper, we try to shed light on this issue by exploring through stochastic actor-oriented models and student-level data the influence that a set of proximity factors may have on formation of these relationships over the entire period in which students are enrolled at the university. Our findings confirm that the establishment of academic relationships is derived, in part, from a wide range of proximity dimensions of a social, personal, geographical, cultural and academic nature. Furthermore, and unlike previous studies, this research also empirically confirms that the specific stage in which the student is at the university determines the influence of these proximity factors on the dynamics of academic relationships. In this regard, beyond cultural and geographic proximities that only influence the first years at the university, students shape their relationships as they progress in their studies from similarities in more strategic aspects such as academic and personal closeness. These results may have significant implications for both academic research and university policies.

Reflective Tutoring and International Presence of Graduate Students: Teacher Training Experiences

Background: The criteria for assessing the impact of tutoring are descriptive and results-oriented to train graduate professionals and researchers. The voice of the actors is null and void to identify thoughtful practices that promote the presence of students in academic activities abroad. Objective: To search the international experiences of teachers that enhance the international presence of the students of the master’s degree in Nursing. Methods: Qualitative research with descriptive design and oriented in tutor experiences to empower students to participate in international academic events. The study population was intentional according to their international track record, experience in tutoring and availability and five tutors from the Master of Nursing Program participated. An interview was conducted via virtual, during pandemic confinement, lasting an hour and a half on average. Interviews were transcribed and analysis categories identified using AtlasTi. Results: Tutoring experiences were systematized into five categories: tutoring perception, tutoring conditions, tutoring objective, relevant tutoring experiences, contribution to master's internationalization. Discussion: Tutoring is a role of great complexity that does not stick to the elaboration of the thesis, it implies dissemination of academic work in international contexts, knowledge of students to plan the accompaniment, establishment of academic networks as results of the program's mobility actions. Conclusions: Postgraduate tutoring involves assessing the significance of research and its scopes that are delimited by the characteristics of the students, the international experiences of teachers, but also of institutional support to support mobility and the linkage promoted by teachers.

The carbon footprint of a scientific community: A survey of the historians of mobility and their normalized yet abundant reliance on air travel

This paper presents a survey conducted among the community of transport historians, on the occasion of the annual conference of the main association in this field, T2M. The survey collected quantitative and qualitative data on air travel by these scholars during 2019. The paper discusses the weight of social factors (gender, academic position, age) in the carbon footprint of these researchers due to flying. It shows the strong dependence of this community on flying, perceived as the only system likely to meet the need for physical encounters, particularly for conferences and the life of academic networks. It also shows that these historians see the issue of the airplane as a moral problem for which their institutions are expected to propose solutions. However, the scale of the weight of long-haul flights seems to be underestimated by the scholars' perception, while it raises questions about the ability to find alternative solutions.