Steven Feldman

Please share this survey with any Jewish college students you may know! If you have any questions or concerns about the research study, please feel free to contact me at stevfeld@iu.edu. Thank you in advance for your help!

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Students have until October 31, 2025 to complete the survey. To access the survey, students can click on this link: tinyurl.com/JISHEsurvey

To be eligible for this study, students must:
- Be at least 18 years old
- Identify as Jewish
- Attend a 4-year college or university in the United States as an undergraduate student

In appreciation for participating in the study, all students who complete the survey will have the option to enter into a raffle to win 1 of 5 $50 Amazon e-gift cards or 1 of 10 $25 Amazon e-gift cards.

Flyer for the dissertation study (see caption for details)

Hi everyone! I am recruiting participants for my dissertation study, which explores how Jewish college students understand their identity and navigate campus spaces that may or may not feel inclusive. This study has been approved by Indiana University’s Institutional Review Board (Study No. 27285).

College Students’ Cultural Center Involvement and Civic Engagement In the context of escalating challenges to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, the purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between cultural center ...

You can read the full article here (if you can't access through your institution, let me know and I can send you a copy): doi.org/10.1080/2194...

In other words, students with more privileged identities also benefit from cultural centers, directly refuting the narratives that are being pushed by legislators who argue that these spaces are enacting some kind of reverse discrimination.

👏🏼 Everyone 👏🏼 benefits 👏🏼 from 👏🏼 DEI 👏🏼

We found that students who engaged with cultural centers reported higher civic engagement skills and frequency of engagement across all racial, gender, and sexual identities. This was true not only for students with minoritized identities, but also for men, white students, and straight students.

Front page of the article mentioned in the caption

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 I'm very excited to share this early online access for an article that I co-authored with @present-academic.bsky.social and Dr. Allison BrckaLorenz that was just published with the Journal of College and Character.

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

Thank you! Best of luck to you too! You got this!

Dissertation proposal defense: Passed ✅
Next step: Data collection
On the horizon: Data analysis, dissertation defense, graduation

You can find the full article here: doi.org/10.1037/dhe0...

If your institution does not have access, let me know and I would be happy to send you a copy.

When I started this project 2 years ago, I kept wondering: “Why does higher ed stay silent on issues affecting Jews?” “Why are campus responses to antisemitism so poor?” Ultimately, we can’t address or fix what we don’t understand. We can’t understand something if we refuse to learn about it.

I found:
- Only 2 articles focused primarily on Jews and/or antisemitism
- Jewishness was often framed as only religious, ignoring racial/ethnic dimensions
- When listed as a demographic variable, it was rarely explored in depth
- Research on Jewish identity in higher education is topically narrow

The first page of the article mentioned in the caption

I’m so excited to share my latest publication in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education! I analyzed 50 years of top-tier higher ed journals to see how often Jewish identity and antisemitism were discussed and how Jewishness was framed in the research.

2025–2028 Journal of Queer and Trans Studies Editorial Board Nominations The Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education is a fee-free open-access peer-reviewed publication that publishes empirical, conceptual, and theoretical work in the areas of queer and trans studi...

JQTSIE invites Editorial board nominations until July 14, especially Associate & Consulting Editors. Learn more & submit a nomination: tinyurl.com/jqtsienomina...

To learn more about JQTSIE, visit www.jqtsie.com
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

🥳📣 Call for abstracts: Special Issue of JQTSIE:
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social & @ftmathteacher.bsky.social!
Abstracts are due SOON: May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
www.jqtsie.com
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

Submits revisions on a manuscript. 10 minutes later: gets a revise and resubmit on a different manuscript.

Yay but also, can the universe give me at least 24 hours for a breather? 😂

UConn won its first-round matchup by 69 POINTS‼️

◽ Azzi Fudd: 27 PTS
◽ Sarah Strong: 20 PTS
◽ Ashlynn Shade: 20 PTS
◽ Paige Bueckers: 11 PTS

I'll share what I conveyed to a grad student recently:

There is much that remains unknown and out of our control right now. The future is extremely uncertain. Multiple job markets have already imploded. Focus on what you can control. Can you finish the dissertation? Then finish the dissertation.

Given the attacks on trans communities in higher education right now, it feels especially important to share this research. We look forward to sharing the third article in the series soon! (4/4)

We also found that trans students were less likely to feel that sharing pronouns is a common practice at their institution. Finally, trans students were also less likely than cisgender students to feel that instructors and staff ask about and use students' gender pronouns correctly. (3/4)

In this study, we found that roughly 40% of students, regardless of their gender identity, do not know whether it was easy or not to update one's name or pronouns in their student portal. (2/4)

Excited to share my first article published in the Journal of College Student Development! This is the second article in a series by @present-academic.bsky.social, Dr. Allison BrckaLorenz, and I on name/pronoun policies and practices. (1/4)

dx.doi.org/10.1353/csd....

What a good day! Eagles win, UConn wbb win, and a journal article acceptance. Not bad!

Seems we are almost tired & done with starter packs but if you want to join our community of Indiana University scholars & friends please respond to this post! #GoHoosiers

@nikimessmore.bsky.social @cameroncarl.bsky.social
@willwalkerjr.bsky.social
@vanessamiller.bsky.social
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Me watching the OSU/Michigan game: 😮

Me watching the OSU/Michigan fight afterwards: 😱