Campus Culture Research Articles

Eradicating dominant ideologies in higher education: the responsibility of campus leadership in developing a culturally-congruent education experience

ABSTRACT Educational leadership serves a pivotal function in establishing the tenor of campus cultures. Executive decisions shape educational policy and practice in ways that either hinder or advance marginalised students’ academic success. Leaders are in powerful positions to modify unjust academic ecosystems and to de-ideologise the white-centric dominant ideologies that lead to student pushout. Leadership actions tend to justify the status quo rather than to deconstruct campus culture and reconstruct antiracist options. Inaction from leadership has resulted in cultural discontinuities that lead some students to self-deidentify from academia. This article expands upon cultural mismatch theory to describe how race dysconsciousness, academic capitalism and rugged individualism operate to buttress ecosystemic conditions that create racially-antagonistic campus cultures. We propose strategies that leaders can implement to eradicate dominant ideologies at their home institutions and within educator-student relationships and individual mindsets. We also discuss important considerations and corresponding actions for creating culturally-congruent equity-focused educational spaces.

Research on the Reform of College Students' Employment Guidance Curriculum from the Perspective of the Internet

This paper explores the optimisation path of college students' career development and employment guidance courses in the context of the Internet era. With the advent of the Internet era, college students' employment faces more opportunities and challenges. This article first analyses the impact of the Internet on college students' employment, including more employment and entrepreneurship opportunities, more diversified employment choices, higher employment ability requirements, and more comprehensive employment guidance. Then, the article points out the major problems in the construction of career development and employment guidance courses for college students, including the lack of awareness of the importance of employment guidance courses for college students in colleges and universities, the vague content of the courses, the imperfect system, the unified form of teaching, the lack of practical teaching, and the lack of capacity of teaching staff. Finally, this paper puts forward the optimisation path for the construction of college students' career development and employment guidance courses in the Internet era, including deepening teaching reform, strengthening team building, cultivating a good campus culture and other suggestions. Through the research of this paper, we aim to provide effective ways and strategies for colleges and universities to improve the quality of talent cultivation and solve the employment difficulties of college students.

Exploring the Integration of Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture into Higher Vocational English Education from a Cross-cultural Perspective

In the context of globalization and cultural diversity, higher vocational English education not only needs to focus on language skills development but also should emphasize the enhancement of students' cross-cultural communication abilities. As a spiritual treasure of the Chinese nation, the integration of excellent traditional Chinese culture into higher vocational English education holds significant importance in cultivating talents with international perspectives and cultural confidence. In this regard, this paper, from a cross-cultural perspective, explores the necessity and approaches of integrating excellent traditional Chinese culture into higher vocational English education. Firstly, the necessity of integrating excellent traditional Chinese culture into higher vocational English education is addressed, including enhancing students' cultural confidence and national pride, promoting the improvement of students' cross-cultural communication abilities, and enhancing the cultural connotations and practicality of English teaching. Secondly, specific integration approaches are discussed, including the integration of teaching materials and curriculum content, innovation in teaching methods and means, and enriching campus culture and extracurricular activities. By integrating Chinese traditional festivals, historical stories, idioms, and other cultural elements, employing interactive teaching methods such as scenario-based teaching and role-playing, and organizing cultural experience activities such as traditional Chinese cultural festivals, calligraphy, and Chinese painting, excellent traditional Chinese culture can be effectively integrated into higher vocational English education to enhance students' cultural literacy and cross-cultural communication abilities. Finally, the paper emphasizes the importance and practical significance of integrating excellent traditional Chinese culture into higher vocational English education from a cross-cultural perspective, calling for vocational colleges to focus on cultural integration and inheritance in English education, and to cultivate talents who can confidently communicate and showcase the charm of Chinese culture on the international stage.

The Value and Path of Integrating the Spirit of New Era Educators into the Cultivation of Normal University Students

The spirit of educator embodies rich connotations and holds multiple dimensions of value for the cultivation of normal university students. At the individual level, it aligns with the inherent needs of normal university students' growth; at the university level, it implements the fundamental task of fostering morality and cultivating people; and at the societal level, it responds to the demands of building a strong education nation in the era. In the new era, promoting the spirit of educators should be based on theoretical teaching, strengthening normal university students’ cognition of the spirit of educators; nourishing through campus culture, cultivating normal university students’ emotions towards the spirit of educators; and using educational practice as a carrier, deepening normal university students’ practice of the spirit of educators.

Discussion on the Impact of Campus Culture Construction on Ideological and Political Education and Learning Style Construction

In the contemporary education system, campus culture construction, ideological and political education and learning style construction complement each other. Campus culture is the embodiment of the university spirit. A good campus cultural environment plays an important role in the improvement and edification of students' moral quality. Therefore, campus culture construction plays an important role in the cultivation of students' ideological and political education. This paper will explore how campus culture construction affects ideological and political education and learning style. It has an impact.

Research on the Implementation Path of Music Aesthetic Education in Public Art Education in Local Colleges and Universities

With the progress of The Times and the implementation of education reform, the development of college education pays more and more attention to the quality training of students. Public art education, as a main way for local colleges and universities to promote quality education and lead students to all-round development, can be reformed and innovated from three aspects: deepening the reform of public art education, strengthening the construction of music aesthetic education curriculum system, and strengthening the role of music aesthetic education in campus culture construction. The article mainly analyzes the implementation path of music aesthetic education in public art education in local colleges and universities.

Unsettling tradition: exploring intersections of campus hazing and white supremacy

Hazing—a form of interpersonal and community violence often minimized and normalized as tradition—can negatively impact students, undercut university missions, and contribute to harmful campus environments. While student hazing is a problem, postsecondary leaders are also grappling with legacies of whiteness and white supremacy that have shaped campus culture, including taken-for-granted norms and traditions. Using Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) as a framework (Cabrera et al., 2017), this qualitative study explored how perceptions of campus hazing may reflect and contribute to perpetuating white supremacy in a sample of U.S. universities. Across 12 institutions, 7 public and 5 private, 345 individuals—169 staff members, 167 students, and nine alumni—were interviewed, primarily in focus groups, sharing perceptions of campus culture and hazing climate. Tradition, with themes of alumni involvement and influence, pride, and space, is discussed, illuminating how whiteness and white supremacy is reinscribed via campus hazing.

Integrating Ideological, Political, and Aesthetic Education for Personality Development

This abstract examines the integration of aesthetic education with ideological and political training in medical colleges. It emphasizes the concept of "aesthetic education" within "integrated ideological and political education." The focus is on moral and aesthetic development in students, alongside building campus culture. The approach utilizes traditional Chinese medicine's strengths and professional traits in its aesthetic education system. Medical students receive aesthetic training through courses, activities, and other methods. This approach blends medical aesthetics with Civic-Constitutionalism practice. It aims to instill cultural confidence and national identity, using the beauty of medical science. Ultimately, the goal is to develop medical students' aesthetic personalities through beauty-infused moral and ethical education.

Study of Cultural and Creative Design based on Narrative Design

Using narrative design method to combine campus culture for campus cultural and creative product design practice, based on the narrative research method, summarise its design key points and combine it with specific case studies to analyse, combine narrative design and campus cultural and creative products to prove the feasibility of the design practice. With the help of narrative design methodology for campus cultural and creative design, campus emotions are used to create emotional resonance with consumers, with narrative design as the entry point, campus culture as the theme, and campus cultural and creative products to express the final effect. Using narrative design as the theoretical basis and shape grammar as the design method to create cultural and creative products with campus culture will touch consumers' hearts, which will help them to be brought into the constructed narrative scenario, feel the narrative theme, and cause emotional resonance with consumers.

Research on Campus Cultural and Creative Product Design based on Rooting Theory

To address the problem of homogenization of campus cultural and creative products at this stage, and to build campus cultural and creative products that meet consumer needs by combining campus characteristics. This study conducted semi-structured interviews with teachers, students, and staff on campus and coded and analyzed the interview texts using the rooted theory method. Through the analysis, we obtained a demand value embodiment model containing 12 core concepts and three levels of functional value, experiential value, and innovation value. It enables the design of campus cultural and creative products to better trigger users' emotions, disseminate campus culture, become an important medium for interpreting campus culture and provide a new step-by-step reference and practical path for the application of campus cultural and creative product design.

Campus Cultural and Creative Product Design Based on Spatial Narrative Perception: The Case of City University of Macau

Campus cultural and creative design is in an emerging period, so the development is not mature enough and there are some problems and challenges. In this paper, we use spatial narrative theory to design campus cultural and creative products with common emotional memories of users and campuses. Through interviewing and extracting the classification elements, we reconstructed a new narrative using spatial narrative theory and designed a handbook product with the common emotional memory of the user and the campus. The booklet consists of a book jacket cover, a functional book, a three-dimensional bookmark and a highlighter pen. The design is a fusion of subconscious perception design and figurative memory extraction design, and allows the user to use the pen to participate in the process and to construct a shared memory with CityU. Therefore, this study proposes a design framework for campus cultural and creative products based on spatial narrative perception and a specific application of handbook design, hoping that the framework and the design practice can provide new ideas and methods for the design and practice of campus cultural and creative products, and contribute to the enhancement of campus culture transmission and promotion.

Campus Cultural and Creative Design based on Narrative Concepts

Campus cultural creation marks an essential part of cultural and creative design. Its innovative development is conducive to enhancing the campus brand image, spreading campus culture, and improving the reputation and popularity of universities. Campus cultural creation is a product of the integration of culture and design. Cultural products convey the intrinsic value of culture in the form of design and have dual symbols of culture and emotion. Creating campus cultural products by integrating narrative concepts can better arouse users' emotions, thereby in While giving cultural product design some special symbolic connotation and profound meaning, we can experience the social role and emotional power of design as spiritual culture.

Current Situation and Construction Path of Integration of Shandong Red Cultural Resources into University Campus Culture

Shandong red cultural resources are abundant, which are an indispensable and important cultural form in the construction of university campus culture. However, there are still deficiencies in the integration of content, methods, channels, and mechanisms between the two. This article explores paths of integration of Shandong red cultural resources into university construction of campus culture from various perspectives, including establishing and improving Shandong’s Red Cultural Resource database to enrich the Connotation of Campus Culture Construction, enhancing the practicality and participation of Shandong red cultural resources to activate the main body of campus cultural construction, enriching the dissemination carriers of Shandong red cultural resources to expand the channels of campus cultural construction and establishing a comprehensive integration mechanism to stimulate the endogenous driving force of campus cultural construction.

Student leaders can boost accessibility beyond the classroom

Complete access to the college experience includes being a part of the campus culture and having equitable opportunities to interact with peers beyond the classroom.

Navigating the Pedagogical Landscape: An In-Depth Review of the Educational Atmosphere in College Settings

This comprehensive review paper delves into the multifaceted dimensions of the educational atmosphere in college environments. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly perspectives, we explore the various factors that contribute to shaping the learning environment within higher education institutions. From pedagogical approaches to institutional policies, campus culture, and student experiences, this paper aims to provide a holistic understanding of the complex dynamics that define the educational atmosphere in colleges. By synthesizing current research findings, identifying key trends, and highlighting challenges and opportunities, our review seeks to inform educators, administrators, and policymakers in fostering a positive and enriching learning environment for students in higher education.

Organizing Shared Approaches to Equity Work

ABSTRACT Campuses are experimenting with new ways to structure and organize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. Existing organizational structures tend to focus either on top-down or vertical ways of organizing DEI work (e.g. chief diversity officer positions) or more horizontally integrated designs such as DEI committees. These structures are limited in their ability to embed the type of culture change necessary to erode entrenched inequities on college and university campuses. Our study identifies organizational structures that are more shared or matrix-like as promising approaches for transforming campus culture. We specifically describe four different models of a more shared organizational design for DEI and discuss the implications of changing structures in this way.

Cybersecurity integration in distance learning: an analysis of student awareness and attitudes

<div align="center"><span>With the rapid growth of distance learning, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity has become increasingly essential to protect students, instructors, and institutions from cyber threats. This paper examines the role of cybersecurity in enhancing students’ security awareness during distance learning. A literature review covers critical cyber threats in distance learning and strategies to mitigate risks through cybersecurity tools, policies, training, and promoting a culture of cybersecurity. Primary research was conducted by surveying 531 university students engaged in distance learning to assess their cybersecurity awareness, attitudes, and behaviors. Results indicate relatively low awareness and adoption of secure practices. Recommendations include implementing multi-layered cybersecurity defenses, student security awareness training, and nurturing a “human firewall” through a cyber-aware campus culture. Cyber risks can be reduced through proactive partnerships between students, faculty, information technology (IT) staff, and administrators to secure distance learning environments.</span></div>

The realistic dilemma and path choice of cultural and creative development on college campus

Campus cultural and creative products are not only an important carrier of campus culture and image communication, but also carry out the connotation of campus culture communication with other universities and cities. A small number of well-known colleges and universities can bring their own Intellectual Property (IP) because of their popularity. As for ordinary schools how to enhance the “cultural output” and commercialization by virtue of their own cultural and creative products is an urgent problem. The successful practice of IP commercialization in Forbidden City can provide useful reference. The study innovatively puts forward the idea of “new cultural creation” to empower traditional cultural creation, focusing on the core of cultural and creative IP construction, improving the cycle of cultural creation product chain to stimulate the endogenous power; schools to provide strong basic support; relying on the regional cultural industry to promote the development of cultural creation in colleges and universities is a very good path to choose. choice.

Exploring the Path of Integrating Chaozhou Opera Artistic Elements into Campus Cultural Construction from an Aesthetic Education Perspective

The core of aesthetic education for college students lies in fostering their sensitivity to beauty, cultivating their aesthetic judgment, and enhancing their overall quality to nurture well-rounded individuals. However, the current lack of aesthetic education courses in colleges mostly focuses on theoretical explanations, with a dearth of practical experience-based courses. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find suitable methods and approaches for implementing aesthetic education. Traditional theatrical performances encompass a wealth of artistic elements, and incorporating these elements into aesthetic education for college students can effectively enhance campus cultural activities and elevate their intellectual qualities. This paper aims to explore the aesthetic connotations of Chaozhou Opera culture and discover effective ways to integrate traditional theatrical artistic elements into the construction of campus spiritual civilization, thus harnessing the guiding power of aesthetic education.

Development path of college labor education based on big data platform in the context of health psychology

Abstract Labor education is an important content of quality education, and the promotion of higher education cannot be separated from the implementation and practice of labor education. The labor education platform and labor education resource base in colleges and universities are established using the big data platform, which combines Hadoop technology and the HBase database. In order to help students obtain labor education teaching resources more efficiently on the labor education platform, reinforcement learning is combined with a deep neural network to optimize the scheduling of teaching resources, and α -the dispersion recommendation algorithm is used to realize personalized recommendations of teaching resources. With regard to the effectiveness of the labor education platform, load testing and application effects were carried out, and the influencing factors of labor behavior and craftsmanship cultivation of college labor education students were analyzed in depth. The labor education platform’s transaction response time increases by 22.5 seconds when the number of users reaches 5000, according to the results. The personal motivation for craftsmanship in the process of labor education will be affected by the campus culture, and its correlation coefficient is 0.565, and the student’s satisfaction with the platform of labor education reaches 0.825. The innovation and development of labor education in colleges and universities need to fully rely on the big data platform to promote the optimization and sharing of labor education resources and to promote the development of labor education resources. The cultivation of student labor creation and craftsmanship can be ensured through the optimization and sharing of educational resources.