This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they have created inviting classrooms; established friendly educational experiences both within and beyond the classroom; engaged faculty and enhanced the teaching experience; and developed instruments to assess invitational strategies in higher education from a global perspective.

Sheila T. Gregory is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at Clark Atlanta University.

Jenny Edwards is professor in the School of Educational Leadership for Change at Fielding Graduate University.

1. From Theory to Practice: Invitational Education for Higher Education Scholar-Practitioners
Jenny Edwards and Sheila Gregory

A Birds Eye View of an Inviting Classroom

2.Inviting Online Learning Environments in Higher Education
Melissa Cain, Natalie Abell, and John Skip Cindric
3.The Invitational Classroom: Strategies that Promote Sustainable Learning for Students
Amy Duncan
4.Inviting Students to Learn: Applying Invitational Theory to the College Classroom
Michelle Jackson
5.Using Invitational Language with Students In Higher Education
Jenny Edwards
6.Two Theories in Attunement: An Invitational and Holistic Approach
Hilary Brown
7.Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks: An Invitational Academic Writing Workshop in an EFL Context
Laura Mitchell, Emily Boersma, and Wendy Tilton

Creating a Culture and Climate to Nurture Inviting Student Experiences

8.Invitational Education, Deep Culture, and Dealing with Diversity
John Ivers
9.Using Invitational Theory in the Recruitment and Retention of Students: Transitions in Colleges& Universities
Crystal Giddings, Antoinette Hollis, and Omar Wray
10.Inviting Culture and Environment For Student Learning: A Case Study of Student Teachers In The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Pattie Yuk Yee Luk-Fong
11.Creating Healthy College Climates: A Case Study Of One International Student
Matthew Shupp
12.Invitational Education in the University Mathematics Classroom
Charles Pierre

Invitational Approaches Beyond the Classroom

13.An Invitational Approach to a Service Learning Program in a University: A Critical Reflection
Yiu Bun Chung, Mantak Yuen, Chiu Woo Chow, and Julian Yat Cheong Leung
14.Creating Invitational Alumni Relations
Julie McIntosh, Deanna Spraw, and Kendall Richardson
15.One Educators Invitational Journey in Higher Education and Beyond
Jim OConnor
16.Creating Invitational Education with Professional Development
Gwendolyn Mitchell
17.Invitational Advising: Applying Invitational Education to Academic Advising
Jane Ziebarth-Bovill, Jude Matyo-Cepero, and Stathene Varvisotis
18.Invitational Leadership From the Middle: Academic Deans Roles in Higher Education
Jasmine Majkowski and Renee Collins
19.Invitational Leadership: Some Thoughts and Reflections
Betty Siegel

Developing, Validating, and Assessing Online Invitational Teaching Assessments

20.The Climate and Culture of Invitational Higher Education and the Inviting Higher Education Survey
Kenneth Smith, Sheila T. Gregory, and Trevor Turner
21.Development and Validation of the Invitational Online Teaching Assessment (IOTA)
Robert Lockwood, Tina Allen and Rhonda Chicone