About the Journal
Beginning November 2024, the Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation is now the Journal of Higher Education, Athletics, Labor & Innovation.
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The Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation (JHEAI) (ISSN 2376-5267) is devoted to becoming a premier higher education resource for scholars and practitioners. JHEAI strives to publish scholarship on a range of topics that employ various methodological approaches to investigating intercollegiate athletics's role within higher education institutions. The mission of JHEAI is to provide early career researchers and authors from underrepresented groups with an opportunity to showcase their innovative, relevant, and timely research in the rapidly changing fields of sport and 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.
JHEAI provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All content in JHEAI is freely available without charge to the user or their institution.
Current Issue
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.
