About the Journal
The Journal of Higher Education Athletics (JHEAI) (ISSN 2376-5267) is supported by the University of Oklahoma. The goal of the journal is to become a premier higher education resource for both scholars and practitioners. We strive to publish scholarship from a range of topics that utilize a plethora of methodological approaches investigating the role of intercollegiate athletics within institutions of higher education.
This journal is inclusive of research investigating NCAA participating member institutions, NAIA institutions, and other organizations and associations that support college sports. The scholarly articles included in the JHEAI will be reviewed empirical and theoretical studies in intercollegiate athletics that constitute significant contributions to the literature. We encourage submissions focusing within the following areas: methodological, political, cultural, social, economic, policy, and organizational issues in intercollegiate athletics.
We are accepting submissions and publish bi-annually with the potential for additional issues including special editions.
Current Issue
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): Special Issue: (In)Equity in College Sports
Special Issue: College Sport (In)Equity: Working Within and Beyond the Law to Achieve Intersectional Racial Justice Praxis
This special issue grew out of a colloquium examining college sports intersectional (in)equities. Through a critical interdisciplinary group of scholars, at varying stages in their careers, we sought to interrogate how college sports serve as a vehicle for social progress and retrenchment.
The scholarship in this issue calls for changes throughout college sport. It invokes the need for change in: the conditions for college athletes and practitioners who work within college sports, media coverage and narratives about college sports, how researchers study college sports, and how we teach future practitioners and leaders of college sports.
Although the colloquium was closed in order to encourage in-process and potentially controversial scholarship, we have been intentional in publishing the final articles with open access to widely broadcast these ideas.
Articles in this special issue were rigorously peer-reviewed; however, we diverged from this journal’s norm by conducting a non-anonymized peer review–instead capitalizing on the expertise of colloquium participants by including them as peer reviewers. Please see the introduction to this special issue for more about our collaborative process and the philosophy behind it.
In Memory of Dr. Kristina Marie Navarro-Krupka
While completing this special issue, we lost an integral athletics and higher education scholar-practitioner, Kristina Marie Navarro-Krupka. The vast network of collaborators, colleagues, and friends who mourn Kristina’s death is a testament to the power of the scholarly community she built and an affirmation of the potential for theory-rich, critical, and applied research to impact people and institutions. The imprint of Kristina’s scholarship was already apparent in citations across this special issue and journal at large. We dedicate this issue to her memory.
Published:
2024-04-19
