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The article discusses a study which examined the impact of an authentic digital assessment on student engagement with the history of higher education in the U.S. Topics include the number of Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) programs in the U.S. that included a course on the history of higher education, the importance of an authentic learning assessment in history education, and the indicators of engagement of students who participated in the study such as hard work.

The article examines the ways in which history of higher education (HE) instructors worked through the lens of social justice to make history relevant for graduate students outside of the history discipline using data from a survey of HE and student affairs (HESA) programs in the U.S. Topics include the number of HESA programs in the U.S., the importance of the strong social justice emphasis within HESA programs to HE history, and the principles of social justice education (SJE) pedagogy.