Walter Lee's research while affiliated with Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and other places

... Imbalance in academic hiring practices, in which a small number of universities produce an outsized portion of faculty, is one of many factors equated with institutional prestige (Burris, 2004;Morgan et al., 2018;Wapman et al., 2022). Institutional prestige is often measured extrinsically; ranking schemes, such as the "Best University Rankings" published by U.S. News and World Report, are well known and often utilized in publicity campaigns and recruitment efforts (Fleming et al., 2023). In addition to outsized faculty production, faculty at prestigious institutions also earn more grant money, employ more research and support staff, publish more papers, and receive more citations and awards (Crane, 1965;Cole and Cole, 1974;Thomas and Zhang, 2005;Wieland et al., 2016). ...

... In addition, others are more critical, such as a lack of acceptance of the research, lack of funding, lack of mentorship, and difficulty of finding your community (Dart et al. 2019;Dart, Trad, and Blackmore 2021). Finally, if the EER researcher is intrinsically motivated to improve engineering education (Bezerra Rodrigues, Paul, and Seniuk Cicek 2021; Dart, Trad, and Blackmore 2021), they often work in diverse settings (Bodnar et al. 2021) and may have to work to have their voice heard over the status quo or hold their position amidst the tensions in motivations and purposes between practice and research. ...

... Whereas racism is endemic to the social structure of the United States, we will situate these characteristics within the epistemological norms of engineering education research. Neely Fuller Jr. made a profound statement in declaring misconceptions of White supremacy as a fundamental source of confusion, and his words seem prophetic when examining the abundance of unsuccessful initiatives to broaden the participation of Black people in engineering (London et al., 2020(London et al., , 2022. Therefore, we offer insight into the mechanisms of White supremacy to strengthen the ability of engineering education researchers to better assess the plight of Black people in engineering. ...

... Accordingly, the papers included within the second issue of this series continue to explore how STEM higher education researchers and various stakeholders can respond to the challenge of promoting equity and combating oppression. For more information about Issue 1 of the series and the authors, see Lee and Rodriguez (2022). ...

... Student support includes a rich variety of possible activities in response to local needs [6,7]. At the Faculty of Engineering Technology (FET) at KU Leuven, the support activities are arranged roughly into two categories: course-specific activities such as Q&A sessions and basic mathematical skill courses, and activities that surpass the course-specificity such as academic skills interventions and study career guidance. ...

... Our research is working toward the development of such an assessment. Developing assessments is an iterative and cyclical process in which one identifies the criteria to be assessed, gives and evaluates the assessment, and reflects upon the validity of the assessment [15,16]. In this paper, we address the first of these three stages by identifying the learning objectives of a computational introductory physics course. ...

... This finding is consistent with previous studies which reported that Black students as a racially minoritized group tended to have lower grades (Whitcomb & Singh, 2021) and lower achievement than their White and Asian peers (Tyson, 2011). One reason for this trend could be that, on average, Black students did not have the prerequisite skills to do as well in the course because K-12 schools that serve high populations of Black students lack accessibility to quality and advanced learning experiences in and exposure to STEM (London et al., 2021). ...

... A logic model is a systematic instrument designed to visualise an organisation's desired result of how a programme could or should be directed (Edwards et al., 2021;Rodrigues et al., 2018). The logic model has detailed out a set of four specific components that are essential to producing the desired output (Rodrigues et al., 2018). ...

... In our review, five papers called for or had implications for bringing together CoP and intersectional power (Adams et al., 2011;Esnard et al., 2017;Miller et al., 2019;Reinholz et al., 2021;Strong et al., 2021). This included a paper about Caribbean academics forming and using a CoP as a support system as they navigated early career challenges, concluding that intersectionality would be a valuable addition to their CoP (Esnard et al., 2017). ...

... Research was also conducted on HE level using the concept of SLB. One of the research studies [15] used the concept of street-level bureaucracy to investigate faculty and academic advisors. The authors state that although SLB in universities may not have been involved in creating the related policies, these stakeholders must assist in implementing these policies and interact with the students affected by them. ...