Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development Submission

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The Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development (JDEED) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the POD Network. The purpose of the journal is to facilitate sustained and dynamic conversations about DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) practices, theories, and possibilities in higher education educational development in a global context.

JDEED publishes two issues per year and also makes articles in press available online before they are compiled into an issue.

An open-access journal, JDEED does not charge publication fees of any kind, including Article Processing Charges (APCs), to contributors.

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development (JDEED) (1) publishes manuscripts about educational development practices and theories focused on the experiences, practices, and outcomes of historically minoritized groups in higher education and/or diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and social-justice evidence-based inquiries in a North American higher education context; and (2) implements practices and policies to diversify academic scholarship by supporting educational developers from historically minoritized backgrounds at various stages in their writing career with resources needed to advance their research projects and interests.

Focus and Scope

The Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development (JDEED) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the POD Network. The purpose of the journal is to develop and sustain scholarly space for minoritized voices in higher education and to center dynamic conversations about DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) practices, theories, and possibilities in higher education as relevant for educational developers. 

As you prepare your manuscript for submission to JDEED, please ensure that your manuscript aligns with:

  1. the journal's focus to publish educational development scholarship that centers minoritized groups or makes other relevant inquiries into diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice theories and practices, and
  2. one of the manuscript types we are currently publishing.

If your manuscript falls outside these categories and you are still interested in publishing with us, please contact us at jdeed@podnetwork.org.

Submission Checklist

Manuscript Preparation Checklist

  • Anonymize manuscript.
  • Identify corresponding author: If you have multiple authors, please identify one author to serve as the corresponding author. JDEED editors will use this contact to communicate all questions and updates regarding the manuscript. We will primarily be using the Janeway publication platform to communicate so please be sure to add corresponding author.  The corresponding author does not have to be the first author.  At a later stage, all authors will be asked for email, institutional affilation (if any), and a brief biographical description.
    • Important: If you do not receive an automated submission confirmation, please check your junk mail. You should also receive a message regarding initial aims and scope review from your assigned editor within one month. If you have not, please check your junk mail and reach out to jdeed@podnetwork.org with any questions.
  • Align with JDEED formatting guidelines: Please submit your manuscript as a Microsoft Word or word processing document.
    • Supplementary materials, including tables, figures, and illustrations should be inserted into the document as they are mentioned.
      • Do not place any of these materials at the end of the file or as separate uploaded files.
    • Please adhere to APA Style formatting guidelines and word count guidelines for each manuscript type.
  • When applicable, please include a stable, secure link or accessible citation to data identified in your manuscript. If you are unable to share the data publicly, please provide a brief statement (1-3 sentences) in the body of your manuscript or as a footnote with a substantiated explanation.
  • Author agreement: Please read and e-sign the author agreement. In short, in signing, you affirm that:
    • You have followed ethical practices and processes, including the review and approval of the appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee.
    • All authors who have contributed substantively to the work have been credited, and all confirm the accuracy of the work. If there are any retractions or corrections, you will inform the editorial team.
    • The manuscript is original and has not, in part or in whole, been published elsewhere, nor is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
    • The manuscript is original and any permissions needed to reprint copyrighted work have been obtained.

Copyright Notice

The following is an agreement between The Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development (the Journal) and the submitter (the Author), governing the work currently being submitted, including the primary contribution as well as any supporting materials such as an abstract, data sets, media files, figures, or tables created by the Author and any co-authors (the Submission). 
 
The Journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to readers or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. 
 
1. As consideration for publication in the Journal, the Author grants the Journal the following rights: 
1.1. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to publish, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute the Submission in perpetuity throughout the world in all means of expression by any method or media now known or hereafter developed; and 
1.2. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to license others, including databases or printing vendors, to do any or all of the above on a non-exclusive basis. 
 
2. The Author warrants that: 
2.1. The Author is the author of the Submission, or is authorized to act on behalf of the author(s) and copyright holder (if different from the author(s)), and has the power to convey the rights granted in this agreement. 
2.2. If the Submission has multiple authors, the other authors are identified in the Submission, and the Author will inform the other authors of the terms of this agreement. 
2.3. Any textual, graphic or multimedia material included in the Submission that is the intellectual property or work of another is identified and cited in the Submission.  
2.4. If the Submission reproduces any material that is the intellectual property of another, the Author has received permission to publish that material in the Submission, or the material is being incorporated based on an informed, reasonable, and good faith application of fair use. 
2.5. The Submission is the original work of the Author(s). To the best of the Author’s knowledge, it does not contain matter that is obscene, libelous, or defamatory; it does not knowingly violate another’s right of privacy, right of publicity, or other legal right; does not contain false or misleading statements; and is otherwise not unlawful. 
2.6. The Submission has not been previously published, and is not pending review elsewhere. If this is not the case, the Author will provide the Journal with information about the other locations where the Submission appears or is pending review. Prior distribution of a Submission, including on a preprint server or in a repository, does not disqualify a Submission from potential publication; the Journal is primarily concerned with other appearances in similar publications. 
2.7. If the Author is a student, the Author agrees to share their work and waive any privacy rights granted by FERPA or any other law, policy or regulation, with respect to the Submission, for the purpose of publication. If the Author has any student co-authors, the Author will obtain a signed copy of this agreement from those co-authors.  
 
3. Indemnification 
The Author will indemnify and hold the Journal harmless against loss, damages, expenses, awards, and judgments arising from breach of any of the above warranties. 
 
4. Author’s Rights and Obligations 
4.1. Nothing in this agreement constitutes a transfer of the copyright by the Author. As such, the Author retains all rights not expressly granted herein, including but not limited to, the right: 
4.1.1. To reproduce and distribute the Submission, and to authorize others to reproduce and distribute the Submission, in any format; 
4.1.2. To post the Submission in an institutional repository or the Author’s personal or departmental web page. 
4.1.3. To include the Submission, in whole or in part, in another work. 
4.2. If the Author distributes the Submission on another website or in another publication (as described above), the Journal will be cited as the source of first publication. 
 
5. Rights for Readers 
The Journal and the Author agree that the Submission will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), or other later version of the same license, that allows others to copy, distribute, translate, adapt, and build upon the Submission, as long as they provide appropriate credit to the author(s) and do not use the Submission for commercial purposes. Anyone who uses or redistributes the Submission under this license must indicate any changes that were made, must link to the license, and cannot imply that the author(s) endorse them or their use. More information about this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.   
 
6. Termination 
The Author agrees to the terms of this agreement for the Submission being considered for publication. If the Submission is declined, this agreement is terminated.

Peer Review

Manuscripts submitted to JDEED either undergo a double anonymized peer-review process or editorial review. Please see the Manuscripts We Welcome section of our website for more information about the review process for each manuscript type.

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

  • CC BY-NC 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Cycle

JDEED's goal is to publish two issues per year and we are working toward the ability to make in-press articles available online, as they are available, prior to the publication of an issue. 

Sections

Section or article type

Public Submissions

Peer Reviewed

Indexed

Commentaries

Reflections on Practice

Conversations

Research Articles

From Draft to Final

JDEED Optional Author Statement

As part of your submission to the Journal of Diversity and Equity in Educational Development (JDEED), we invite you to submit an optional Author Statement.

Overview

Like many publications, JDEED uses a double-anonymized peer-review process to garner feedback on many types of manuscripts we receive. The editorial team is committed to a developmental approach to working with authors and reviewers, which includes providing training and other resources for reviewers and inviting reviewers to position themselves as advisors, not gatekeepers, in the publishing process.

However, we know that authors from historically minoritized backgrounds and authors centering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in their work often experience microaggressions, delegitimization, and other biases in the peer review process.

As the editorial team continues to explore ways to integrate equity-focused, mission-aligned practices into scholarly peer review, one of the editors sought the advice of a colleague, Dr. Carmen Granda, who recommended the work of Felicia Rose Chavez (2021) and the idea of an Author Statement.

Definition & Purpose

An Author Statement is an optional overview, in the author’s own words, of the intent of or process behind their manuscript. The Author Statement is meant to humanize the author in a review process in which authors are not only anonymous but in which words are often disembodied. Setliff (2021) writes about Chavez’s work:

There has been a widespread and consequential failure to recognize that we never really read a piece without the writer’s bodily presence in the work. What Chavez makes evident is that there is a person enacting a process behind the product, and she allows those of us who create… to imagine what it would be like if we actively trusted and valued that person (para. 6).

While Chavez intends the statements to work in conjunction with peer review workshops in which authors and respondents engage in real-time conversations to confront biases, we hope that the Author Statement will have a similar, humanizing effect in an asynchronous, anonymized, written review process.

The Author Statement:

  1. Serves as a starting point for reviewers, allowing them to understand the type of feedback the writer believes will be helpful, even if reviewers also offer feedback beyond what the writer requested.
  2. Allows reviewers to see the writers’ work as the authors want it to be seen, providing clarity and insight into the writers’ intent and aims.
  3. Humanizes writers to reviewers by reminding readers that there is an actual person (people) behind the anonymized text.
  4. Provides writers with a mechanism for directing the reviewers’ attention and feedback, allowing writers to request feedback that they believe will best support their work.
  5. Supports community and collegiality even in a double-anonymized process.
  6. Enables the author to articulate how their work both aligns with JDEED’s mission and furthers conversations about DEIB in educational development. 

Instructions

Please note: The Author Statement is optional. Whether or not you choose to write an Author Statement will not impact your manuscript’s review process or decision.

If you are interested in submitting an Author Statement with your manuscript, please adhere to the following guidelines:

Word count: 300 words (max) for a single author or 500 words (max) for multiple authors

Optional Prompts: We encourage you to consider the following prompts as a basis for your statement. Please note that you do not have to respond to all or any of these prompts; these are simply meant to serve as a starting point for your writing:

  1. Summarize your project in one to two sentences.
  2. What is your intention with this project? What (or whom) do you hope to inform and/or influence?
  3. What surprised you while you were writing this manuscript?
  4. What aspect(s) of the project posed the greatest challenge for you?
  5. What successes have resulted from the project?
  6. How, if at all, has this project impacted your own practice?
  7. Identify 1-3 specific questions about the project about which you are curious to receive reviewer feedback; these may be related to your content or to your writing craft.

Other Considerations

We encourage you to format the Author Statement as a letter (with a greeting, body, and closing) to the reviewers to speak directly to them.

Please do not include a signature or other identifying information (e.g., your institution's name) so as to maintain the integrity of our double-anonymized peer-review process.

Chavez recommends distance between the completion of the manuscript and writing of the statement-- encouraging a long walk, a cup of tea, or a night’s rest-- in order to maximize a reflective stance.