Cogent Education Journal: Navigating Transformation in Higher Education During a Time of Backlash
Category: Publication
Keywords: organizational change, student activism, equity-centered innovation
This article collection explores how higher education institutions across diverse geopolitical and cultural contexts navigate mounting political and ideological backlash while pursuing equity-centered transformation. It invites interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical, and practice-based contributions on institutional responses to political interference, coordinated attacks on DEI, knowledge censorship, and the ethical implications of AI in learning environments. By examining organizational change, student and community resistance, and equity-driven innovations in pedagogy and leadership, the collection seeks to document and theorize the contested role of higher education as a public good, democratic space, and site of struggle over academic freedom and social justice.
Initiator(s):
Dr. Ashley Carpenter & Dr. Stephen Darwin & Cogent Education Journal
Deadline: 08.05.2026
Language(s): English
Publication-Type: Article / Journal
Post created by: Virginia Signorini