Promoting academic success and well-being among traditionally underrepresented students.
Featured Work
Responding to racial
microaggressions: Resilience among Black undergraduate students
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how Black undergraduates demonstrate resilience in response to experiencing racial microaggressions. Given that racially hostile and unwelcoming campus environments persist and that some response strategies have been associated with mitigating…
Student-Ready critical care pedagogy: An empowering approach for struggling students
This qualitative case study proposes a pedagogy to support the academic success of students from historically excluded groups (HEGs), e.g. first-generation students, low-income students, and Students of Color, who are struggling…
Black Students’
perceptions of campus
climates and the effect
on academic resilience
Black college students may demonstrate academic resilience despite navigating a challenging campus climate that can make it challenging for them to excel academically. This paper investigates the relationships between general, academic, and racial campus climates and academic resilience…
Environmental racial microaggressions experienced by Black college students
Racial microaggressions can be interpersonal or environmental. This paper explores Black college students’ experiences of environmental racial microaggressions which have no apparent offender…
Kristen J. Mills, Ph.D. 