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International students are more likely to experience mental health issues and increased stress. Mental health is often surrounded by negative societal stigmas that act as barriers to seeking support and tend to lead to greater mental health concerns. International students tend to seek socioemotional support from other international student peers rather than seeking out counseling services. However, this study shows that LGBTQIA+ international students were less likely to seek socioemotional support from other international student peers due to fear of their sexual orientation being discovered and their families finding out about their identity. This study examines how LGBTQIA+ international students talk about their experiences on and off campus in relations to their socioemotional well-being. Specifically, this study sought to better understand the complexities of LGBTQIA+ students’ identities, and the challenges they faced in terms of their socioemotional well-being. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Using a critical lens, this article discusses some of the most common recommendations for human resource and community college leaders on how to respond to budget cuts to student affairs and support services at community colleges. Student affairs and support services are often the first to experience budget cuts in higher education, yet little is known about the impact of—as well as responses to—declining budgets to such services in community colleges. As part of this critical analysis, we frame recommendations using resource-based perspectives to better understand institutional actions in the face of budget cuts, such as identifying sustainable alternative financial resources and increasing efficiency of existing financial and human resources through increased coordination with other community college units. We also discuss how these best practices can also lead to other challenges in times of financial crisis that institutional leaders should consider.

Although numerous studies have been conducted, a recommended practice for incorporation of earthquake loading into the geotechnical design considerations for subsea structures such as wells, manifolds, and PLETs, and pipelines is not consistent. Industry guidance provided in ISO 19901-2 and the more recent API adoption, RP2EQ, provide performance-based recommendations for selection of a two-level seismic design. At the first level the structure is designed to retain its full capacity (and likely its operability) at ground motions with a return period typically under 200 years that depends on the exposure level of the structure. At the second level ground motions that are less likely to occur over the lifetime of the structure are used to ensure global failure is avoided. The guidance, however, was written specifically for fixed steel structures and fixed concrete structures for which exposure incorporates first and foremost life safety, with secondary consideration for environmental exposures caused by system failures, and economic losses to the owners and operator. Subsea field architectures that only include subsea gathering and distribution systems and structures present no exposure to human life, therefore the decision to incorporate earthquake loads should be done with consideration given to mitigation and prevention of environmental releases and tolerable levels of damage. The latter include consideration of: (i) costs associated with production down time and schedule; and (ii) costs for replacement and rehabilitation of damaged facilities. In this paper we provide: (1) a discussion on existing industry guidance for reliability-based design; (2) reliability-based process for incorporating triggering of seismically-induced soil liquefaction and its consequences into foundation design, and design criteria in a moderately seismic environment with a seabed architecture that only includes manifolds, PLETs, pipelines, umbilicals, and associated structures; and (3) a reliability-based process for evaluation of seismically-induced stability of slopes and its incorporation in the evaluation of pipeline routes.

Over the last few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of student service personnel, yet demand has outstripped this growth leading to turnover and low employee satisfaction. Scholars and practitioners alike have called for increased levels of empowerment of these workers, but the outcomes of this approach need further analysis. We utilize data from a survey of international centre directors in the United States and employ a partial least squares‐based structural equation modelling to investigate the relationship between empowerment and employ perceptions including work satisfaction, organizational commitment, perspective of leadership and personal engagement. Specifically, trust meaning and personal consequence are strong components of empowerment in this sample. Our results indicate a positive relationship between empowerment and job satisfaction, organizational commitment and perspectives on leadership. In addition, we find that organizational commitment mediates the relationship between empowerment and personal engagement.