Melvin (Jai) Jackson

Jackson, M., & Jackson, M. (2025). The Impact of Anti-DEI Legislation on Higher Education Pedagogy. Journal of College and Character, 26(1), 61–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/2194587x.2024.2442717

Jackson, M., Hilton, A. A., & McClain, K. (2023). Embracing Diversity in Higher Education: Teaching a Driven and Embracing Diversity in Higher Education: Teaching a Driven and Determined Approach . Journal of Research Initiatives, 8(2), 1. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1289&context=jri

Jackson, M. J., Hilton, A., & McClain, K. (2023). Embracing diversity in higher education: Teaching a driven and determined approach. Journal of Research Initiatives, 8(2), 1. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/jri/vol8/iss2/1

Mulholland, J., Elrod, L., & Jackson, M. (2022). Declining Black student belonging at a PWI: Climate surveys and the constraints of social capital at NC State. Association for the Study of Higher Education. [Conference paper]. ASHE Annual Conference.

Sy, J. W., & Jackson, M. J. (2021). Advising 101: The Art of Laughing at Yourself. In K. Vaidya (Ed.), Advise Your Students With a Sense of Humor: Why (and How to) Be a Funnier and More Effective Academic Advisor and Laugh All the Way to Your Classroom. Curious Academic Publishing.

Jackson, M., & Jackson, K. (2020). Factors that Influence Emirati Male Achievement in Higher Education. Journal of Research Initiatives, 5(2), 4. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/jri/vol5/iss2/4

Morton, B. C., Jackson, K. M., & Jackson, M. J. (2020). The Cultural Inability of Me A Conceptual Framework for Accommodating the Roadblock of the Mirror. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 19(4), 113–131. Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/taboo/vol19/iss4/6

Morton, B. C., Jackson, K. M., & Jackson, M. J. (2020). The Cultural Inability of Me A Conceptual Framework for Accommodating the Roadblock of the Mirror. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 19, 4. Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/taboo/vol19/iss4/6/

Jackson, M. (2019). Escape, Adapt, and Thrive: In Search of the Promised Land. In M. G. Burke & U. M. Robinson (Eds.), No Ways Tired: The Journey for Professionals of Color in Student Affairs: Vol. II (pp. 75–84). Retrieved from https://www.infoagepub.com/products/No-Ways-Tired-By-and-By-Mid-Level-Professionals

Jackson, M. (2019). The International Struggle for Equality. In M. Robinson-Nichols, M. G. Burke, & L. (Eds.), No Ways Tired: The Journey for Professionals of Color in Student Affairs. Retrieved from https://www.infoagepub.com/products/No-Ways-Tired-Change-Is-Gonna-Come

Sy, J., & Jackson, M. (2018). Considerations for International Higher Education: Revisiting Cultural Competence and Proficiency. In 2018 NASPA Annual Conference March 3–7, 2018 Philadelphia, PA: The Annual Knowledge Community Conference Publication (pp. 41–43). Washington, DC: NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Jackson, M. (2018). The International Struggle for Equality. In M. G. Burke & U. M. Robinson (Eds.), No Ways Tired: The Journey for Professionals of Color in Student Affairs: Vol. I (1st ed.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Jackson, M. (2018). The Road to Change: The Impact of Culture on Leadership. In D. Griffith, S. Lowrey, & M. Cassar (Eds.), The Leader Reader (1st ed.). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/edadfacbooks/3/

Jackson, M. (2017). Covert Direction Through Informal Leadership in Higher Education. In C. Rogers, A. HIlton, & K. Lomotey (Eds.), Innovative Approaches to Educational Leadership: Selected Cases (1st ed.). Retrieved from https://www.peterlang.com/document/1113318

Jackson, M. (2017). Failure Breeds Opportunities for Success. In A. Robbins (Ed.), Empower Now: True Stories from 14 Young Minority Professionals (1st ed.). Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Empower-Now-Stories-Minority-Professionals-ebook/dp/B06W2NVBK5

Morton, B., Jackson, M. J., Frazier, M., & Varner, K. (2016). Roadblock in the mirror: Recommendations for overcoming the cultural disability of whiteness in non-white educational spaces. In S. Hancock & C. Warren (Eds.), White women's work : examining the intersectionality of teaching, identity, and race. Retrieved from https://www.infoagepub.com/products/white-womens-work

Jackson, M. (2015). A Testimony of a Black Male Cadet Facing Racial Battle Fatigue. In K. Fasching-Varner, K. A. Albert, R. W. Mitchell, & C. Allen (Eds.), Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education: Exposing the Myth of Post-Racial America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

Jackson, M. (2014). A Testimony of a Black Male Cadet Facing Racial Battle Fatigue. In But You Can't Take Our Souls: The Front Lines of Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education.