Matthew J Mayhew
Biographic Data
| ID | 366694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Mayhew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayhew |
| SIGNATURE | MAYHEW M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1720-1162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Comparisons Across Higher Education Contexts
Understanding campus climates for interfaith learning in higher education supports universities in achieving their missions of producing global leaders and ensuring equitable access and experiences of campus life for students of diverse religious and nonreligious worldviews. The Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS) was a mixed-method study designed to explore these issues in the United States; recently, UK r…
How can universities support students’ interfaith learning? Findings from a longitudinal survey of students in the UK
Across the globe, on-campus religious diversity generates opportunities for learning and growth. But how can universities prepare students to learn about and engage positively with people with different religions and beliefs from their own? Put another way, how can universities best support students’ interfaith learning? This article explores how the university environment, or ‘campus climate’, influences one measure of interfaith learning, stude…
Inspiring Muslim Appreciation in the First-Year of College
The purpose of this study was to examine first-year change in appreciative attitudes toward Muslims by non-Muslim students. To this end, we longitudinally assessed 6229 undergraduate students at the beginning and end of their first year in college. We performed a hierarchical linear modeling analysis and found evidence that Muslim appreciation can change as a result of exposure to and participation in the first year in college, specifically throu…
You Don’t Get to Say What I Believe, I Do
This paper examines the developmental trajectories of students’ self-authored worldview commitments over four years of college and the reasons they offered for making associated developmental gains. Through a longitudinal, mixed methods approach, we unearthed four distinctive developmental trajectories of a nationally-representative cohort of 9,470 students enrolled across 122 institutions. We found that provocative encounters with worldview dive…
Latent Growth Modeling of the Attitudes of Non-Muslims Toward Muslims in College
Attitudes toward Muslims are at the core of addressing the anti-Muslim environments Muslims encounter in college and society writ large. Using longitudinal data, this study shows that colleges can spur the development of appreciative attitudes toward Muslims by non-Muslim students when they engage in two or more informal or formal social engagements across religious and spiritual identity differences. Institutional campus culture is also meaningf…
Developing Innovators
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of collegiate environments and experiences on students’ development of innovation capacities over four years of college. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and reliable innovation measures, students from nine postsecondary institutions in North America were surveyed at three time points: first-year fall, first-year spring, and fourth-year spring. Data were comprehensively an…
The Evangelical Puzzle Partially Explained
Background: Evangelical Christian college students simultaneously experience the privileges that accompany dominant religious identities and feel a need to conceal their identity and perspectives on college campuses. Consistently and empirically, the college campus has been studied for its potential to help students develop appreciative attitudes toward religious, secular, and spiritual worldviews. Yet, few studies have investigated evangelical C…
Building Women’s Innovation Capacities Through Undergraduate Experiences
Campus Conditions and College Experiences that Facilitate Friendship Across Worldview Differences
Supporting students’ friendships across social boundaries is one powerful way in which colleges and universities can contribute to the civic mission of higher education. Using data from the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS), a national, multi-institutional study, we examined how institutional conditions and various forms of student engagement predicted the number of interworldview friendships among colleg…
Being Evangelical is Complicated
Background Evangelical Christian college students navigate campus buoyed by Christian privilege but may encounter silencing or othering tied to their religious beliefs, a feeling of incompatibility with their campus climate, and conflations of their religious and political beliefs that are inaccurate and discouraging. Unsupportive campus climates can discourage evangelical students from having productive exchanges across difference and deepening …
Interfaith Experiences and Their Relationship with Heterosexual Collegians' Attitudes Toward Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People
For queer-spectrum students, college and university campuses are often sites of marginalization, discrimination, and/or harassment. Though such experiences are not singularly attributable to worldview, research highlights the role that religious identity plays in shaping individuals' perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people. Absent from current scholarship, however, is insight into the ways in which interfaith experiences may influ…
Beyond the Binary
Examining the Psychometric Properties of a New Integrative Learning Scale
Anti-Semitism on Campus is Alive And Well
Hate crimes against Jews in America are on the rise, including on college campuses. In this article, the authors share details about their recent study, The Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS), which surveyed thousands of students at over 120 schools. The findings show that Jewish students are the least likely among their peers to view their campus environments as welcoming to people of diverse faiths
Examining the Relationship Between College Students’ Interworldview Friendships and Pluralism Orientation
Background One of the most influential factors shaping college students’ prosocial development—the development of attitudes and behaviors that involve positive engagement within one's community and larger society—is the peer group. Friends have an especially important influence on students’ learning and development because of the time and emotional investment friendship involves. While ample research documents the association between college stud…
Careful with your ‘We’”
Developing Appreciative Attitudes Toward Jews
The purpose of this paper was to examine the institutional conditions and educational practices associated with the development of first-term students’ appreciative attitudes toward Jews. Using a longitudinal design, we administered a theoretically derived and empirically validated measure of interfaith experiences to 7, 194 first-term students enrolled in one of 122 institutions. Analytically, we weighted data to reflect national figures regardi…
Teaching Innovation Capacities in Undergraduate Leadership Courses
This study explored the effectiveness of a short-term, low-cost experiential learning intervention on undergraduate students’ development of innovation capacities. Data were collected from 90 students at a large Midwestern public institution across two randomly assigned conditions: those who received only a video-based innovation lecture and those who received the video-based lecture in addition to an in-class pedagogical intervention. Notably wi…
StateChurch
Religion undeniably impacts life in modern society in numerous ways. In the U.S., discussions about religion in public life often start at the First Amendment of the U.S. constitution as fundamental to the separation of church and state. Public higher education does not necessarily share established associations with any religion, but is not free from religious influence. Although Christian influences are undeniably present on public campuses, ed…
Exposing the intersections in LGBQ+ student of color belongingness
Owning Faith
The purpose of this paper was to examine the institutional conditions and educational practices associated with the development of first-year students’ capacities to script their own religious, spiritual, and worldview narratives through exposure to and thoughtful reflection on encounters with diverse others. We longitudinally administered a theoretically-derived and empirically-validated measure of interfaith learning and development to 7,194 fi…
Examining the factors associated with college-related career outcome expectations for heterosexual and LGBQ students
Examining Curricular Approaches to Developing Undergraduates’ Innovation Capacities
The purpose of this study was to understand whether and the extent to which undergraduate students’ exposure to and participation in a set of innovation-specific curricular learning interventions promoted innovation capacities—a measurable set of self-perceptions and abilities students can develop to better engage in innovation. Through the use of a longitudinal design, we examined gains made by students enrolled in a “Leadership and Innovation” …
An Examination of Non-Muslim College Students’ Attitudes Toward Muslims
The current study enhances the understanding of campus climate for religious and worldview diversity by examining how non-Muslim college students perceive Muslims and Islam and what predispositions, environmental factors, and experiences predict their attitudes toward Muslims. Results indicate that informal engagement with diverse peers, interfaith engagement, and space for spiritual expression on campus are positively related to appreciative att…
Expanding Perspectives on Evangelicalism
Evangelical students pose a distinctive set of challenges to higher education professionals. These students, though advantaged to some degree because of their Christian identity, commonly report feeling marginalized and silenced on college campuses. In light of these tensions, the purpose of this study was to examine how non-evangelical students come to an appreciative understanding of evangelical Christianity. Specifically, the research focused …
Owning Faith
The purpose of this paper was to examine the institutional conditions and educational practices associated with the development of first-year students’ capacities to script their own religious, spiritual, and worldview narratives through exposure to and thoughtful reflection on encounters with diverse others. We longitudinally administered a theoretically-derived and empirically-validated measure of interfaith learning and development to 7,194 fi…
Diversity and Moral Reasoning
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMatthew J. MayhewMatthew J. Mayhew is an Assistant Professor at New York University and Mark E. Engberg is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University.Mark E. EngbergMatthew J. Mayhew is an Assistant Professor at New York University and Mark E. Engberg is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University
An Examination of Non-Muslim College Students’ Attitudes Toward Muslims
The current study enhances the understanding of campus climate for religious and worldview diversity by examining how non-Muslim college students perceive Muslims and Islam and what predispositions, environmental factors, and experiences predict their attitudes toward Muslims. Results indicate that informal engagement with diverse peers, interfaith engagement, and space for spiritual expression on campus are positively related to appreciative att…
How LGBT College Students Perceive and Engage the Campus Religious and Spiritual Climate
The purpose of this study was to compare how students of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities perceive the campus religious and spiritual climate and engage in interfaith and spiritual activities during college. Using data from a national study of 13,776 students at 52 institutions that took part in the Campus Religious and Spiritual Climate Survey, results indicate significant variations in perceptions and engagement by sexual orien…
Deeply Affecting First-Year Students' Thinking
This study estimates the effects of a deep approaches to learning scale and its subscales on measures of students' critical thinking, need for cognition, and positive attitudes toward literacy, controlling for pre-college scores for the outcomes and other covariates. Results suggest reflection is critical to making gains across the outcomes
Factors Contributing to Faculty Incorporation of Diversity-Related Course Content
This study examines the factors that contribute to 336 faculty members' decisions to incorporate diversity-related content into their course materials. The final model has an 86% success rate in predicting likelihood to incorporate. Significant predictors include a race by gender interaction, participation in diversity-related activities, and perceived departmental commitment to diversity
Learning's Weak Link to Persistence
You Don’t Get to Say What I Believe, I Do
This paper examines the developmental trajectories of students’ self-authored worldview commitments over four years of college and the reasons they offered for making associated developmental gains. Through a longitudinal, mixed methods approach, we unearthed four distinctive developmental trajectories of a nationally-representative cohort of 9,470 students enrolled across 122 institutions. We found that provocative encounters with worldview dive…
Campus Conditions and College Experiences that Facilitate Friendship Across Worldview Differences
Supporting students’ friendships across social boundaries is one powerful way in which colleges and universities can contribute to the civic mission of higher education. Using data from the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS), a national, multi-institutional study, we examined how institutional conditions and various forms of student engagement predicted the number of interworldview friendships among colleg…
Examining Curricular Approaches to Developing Undergraduates’ Innovation Capacities
The purpose of this study was to understand whether and the extent to which undergraduate students’ exposure to and participation in a set of innovation-specific curricular learning interventions promoted innovation capacities—a measurable set of self-perceptions and abilities students can develop to better engage in innovation. Through the use of a longitudinal design, we examined gains made by students enrolled in a “Leadership and Innovation” …
Expanding Perspectives on Evangelicalism
Evangelical students pose a distinctive set of challenges to higher education professionals. These students, though advantaged to some degree because of their Christian identity, commonly report feeling marginalized and silenced on college campuses. In light of these tensions, the purpose of this study was to examine how non-evangelical students come to an appreciative understanding of evangelical Christianity. Specifically, the research focused …
Silencing Whom? Linking Campus Climates for Religious, Spiritual, and Worldview Diversity to Student Worldviews
This study examined the perceptions of campus climate among students of diverse worldviews. Results from this study suggest that climate perceptions and experiences were more negative among worldview majority students (e.g., Protestants, Catholics) than among worldview minority students (e.g., Muslims, Jews) and nonreligious students. Theoretical implications are discussed
Interfaith Experiences and Their Relationship with Heterosexual Collegians' Attitudes Toward Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People
For queer-spectrum students, college and university campuses are often sites of marginalization, discrimination, and/or harassment. Though such experiences are not singularly attributable to worldview, research highlights the role that religious identity plays in shaping individuals' perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people. Absent from current scholarship, however, is insight into the ways in which interfaith experiences may influ…
Developing Appreciative Attitudes Toward Jews
The purpose of this paper was to examine the institutional conditions and educational practices associated with the development of first-term students’ appreciative attitudes toward Jews. Using a longitudinal design, we administered a theoretically derived and empirically validated measure of interfaith experiences to 7, 194 first-term students enrolled in one of 122 institutions. Analytically, we weighted data to reflect national figures regardi…
Teaching Innovation Capacities in Undergraduate Leadership Courses
This study explored the effectiveness of a short-term, low-cost experiential learning intervention on undergraduate students’ development of innovation capacities. Data were collected from 90 students at a large Midwestern public institution across two randomly assigned conditions: those who received only a video-based innovation lecture and those who received the video-based lecture in addition to an in-class pedagogical intervention. Notably wi…
StateChurch
Religion undeniably impacts life in modern society in numerous ways. In the U.S., discussions about religion in public life often start at the First Amendment of the U.S. constitution as fundamental to the separation of church and state. Public higher education does not necessarily share established associations with any religion, but is not free from religious influence. Although Christian influences are undeniably present on public campuses, ed…
Exposing the intersections in LGBQ+ student of color belongingness
The Association between Worldview Climate Dimensions and College Students' Perceptions of Transformational Learning
Based on 13,776 student respondents to the Campus Religious and Spiritual Climate Survey (CRSCS) across three academic years at 52 colleges and universities, this study examined how aspects of the campus climate for religious and spiritual diversity related to student perceptions of transformational learning in college. Perceived transformational learning was associated with college experiences that provoked new ways of thinking and presented cha…
Cultivating Innovative Entrepreneurs for the Twenty-First Century
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the cultivation of innovative entrepreneurial intentions among students in three distinctive educational settings: a U.S. undergraduate four-year environment, a U.S. M.B.A two-year environment, and a German five-year business and technology environment. Results suggested that innovative entrepreneurial intentions varied based on educational setting. Implications for theory, research, and practi…
Factors Contributing to Faculty Incorporation of Diversity-Related Course Content
This study examines the factors that contribute to 336 faculty members' decisions to incorporate diversity-related content into their course materials. The final model has an 86% success rate in predicting likelihood to incorporate. Significant predictors include a race by gender interaction, participation in diversity-related activities, and perceived departmental commitment to diversity
Diversity and Moral Reasoning
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMatthew J. MayhewMatthew J. Mayhew is an Assistant Professor at New York University and Mark E. Engberg is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University.Mark E. EngbergMatthew J. Mayhew is an Assistant Professor at New York University and Mark E. Engberg is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University
Spirituality in college students' lives
"Spirituality in College Students' Lives draws on data from a large-scale national survey examining the spiritual development of undergraduates and how colleges and universities can be more effective in facilitating students' spiritual growth. In this book, contributors from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, social work, and religion present research-based studies that explore the importance of students' spirituality and the impact …
Learning's Weak Link to Persistence
A Multilevel Examination of the Influence of Institutional Type on the Moral Reasoning Development of First-Year Students
The purpose of this study was to examine the infl uence of institutional type on the moral reasoning development of 1,469 fi rst-year students. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to account for students nested within institutions. Moral reasoning gains were related to, but not dependent upon, institutional type, with students at liberal arts colleges demonstrating higher moral reasoning skills than those at community colleges. Implications are…
Deeply Affecting First-Year Students' Thinking
This study estimates the effects of a deep approaches to learning scale and its subscales on measures of students' critical thinking, need for cognition, and positive attitudes toward literacy, controlling for pre-college scores for the outcomes and other covariates. Results suggest reflection is critical to making gains across the outcomes
Silencing Whom? Linking Campus Climates for Religious, Spiritual, and Worldview Diversity to Student Worldviews
This study examined the perceptions of campus climate among students of diverse worldviews. Results from this study suggest that climate perceptions and experiences were more negative among worldview majority students (e.g., Protestants, Catholics) than among worldview minority students (e.g., Muslims, Jews) and nonreligious students. Theoretical implications are discussed
Non-White, No More
Non-White, No More:Effect Coding as an Alternative to Dummy Coding With Implications for Higher Education Researchers Matthew J. Mayhew (bio) and Jeffrey S. Simonoff (bio) The purpose of this article is to describe effect coding as an alternative quantitative practice for analyzing and interpreting categorical, race-based independent variables in higher education research. Unlike indicator (dummy) codes that imply that one group will be a referen…
The Association between Worldview Climate Dimensions and College Students' Perceptions of Transformational Learning
Based on 13,776 student respondents to the Campus Religious and Spiritual Climate Survey (CRSCS) across three academic years at 52 colleges and universities, this study examined how aspects of the campus climate for religious and spiritual diversity related to student perceptions of transformational learning in college. Perceived transformational learning was associated with college experiences that provoked new ways of thinking and presented cha…
Cultivating Innovative Entrepreneurs for the Twenty-First Century
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the cultivation of innovative entrepreneurial intentions among students in three distinctive educational settings: a U.S. undergraduate four-year environment, a U.S. M.B.A two-year environment, and a German five-year business and technology environment. Results suggested that innovative entrepreneurial intentions varied based on educational setting. Implications for theory, research, and practi…
An Examination of Non-Muslim College Students’ Attitudes Toward Muslims
The current study enhances the understanding of campus climate for religious and worldview diversity by examining how non-Muslim college students perceive Muslims and Islam and what predispositions, environmental factors, and experiences predict their attitudes toward Muslims. Results indicate that informal engagement with diverse peers, interfaith engagement, and space for spiritual expression on campus are positively related to appreciative att…
Expanding Perspectives on Evangelicalism
Evangelical students pose a distinctive set of challenges to higher education professionals. These students, though advantaged to some degree because of their Christian identity, commonly report feeling marginalized and silenced on college campuses. In light of these tensions, the purpose of this study was to examine how non-evangelical students come to an appreciative understanding of evangelical Christianity. Specifically, the research focused …
How LGBT College Students Perceive and Engage the Campus Religious and Spiritual Climate
The purpose of this study was to compare how students of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities perceive the campus religious and spiritual climate and engage in interfaith and spiritual activities during college. Using data from a national study of 13,776 students at 52 institutions that took part in the Campus Religious and Spiritual Climate Survey, results indicate significant variations in perceptions and engagement by sexual orien…
Respecting the LDS/Mormon Minority on Campus
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints remain a minoritized and marginalized population in the United States at large, a pattern mirrored on the majority of college and university campuses across the United States. This study addresses how social identities, institutional contexts, and intergroup dynamics within the postsecondary education environment contribute to cultivating college students' attitudes toward LDS/Mormons and…
Examining Curricular Approaches to Developing Undergraduates’ Innovation Capacities
The purpose of this study was to understand whether and the extent to which undergraduate students’ exposure to and participation in a set of innovation-specific curricular learning interventions promoted innovation capacities—a measurable set of self-perceptions and abilities students can develop to better engage in innovation. Through the use of a longitudinal design, we examined gains made by students enrolled in a “Leadership and Innovation” …
Examining the factors associated with college-related career outcome expectations for heterosexual and LGBQ students
Exposing the intersections in LGBQ+ student of color belongingness
Owning Faith
The purpose of this paper was to examine the institutional conditions and educational practices associated with the development of first-year students’ capacities to script their own religious, spiritual, and worldview narratives through exposure to and thoughtful reflection on encounters with diverse others. We longitudinally administered a theoretically-derived and empirically-validated measure of interfaith learning and development to 7,194 fi…
Beyond the Binary
Examining the Psychometric Properties of a New Integrative Learning Scale
Anti-Semitism on Campus is Alive And Well
Hate crimes against Jews in America are on the rise, including on college campuses. In this article, the authors share details about their recent study, The Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS), which surveyed thousands of students at over 120 schools. The findings show that Jewish students are the least likely among their peers to view their campus environments as welcoming to people of diverse faiths
Examining the Relationship Between College Students’ Interworldview Friendships and Pluralism Orientation
Background One of the most influential factors shaping college students’ prosocial development—the development of attitudes and behaviors that involve positive engagement within one's community and larger society—is the peer group. Friends have an especially important influence on students’ learning and development because of the time and emotional investment friendship involves. While ample research documents the association between college stud…
Careful with your ‘We’”
Developing Appreciative Attitudes Toward Jews
The purpose of this paper was to examine the institutional conditions and educational practices associated with the development of first-term students’ appreciative attitudes toward Jews. Using a longitudinal design, we administered a theoretically derived and empirically validated measure of interfaith experiences to 7, 194 first-term students enrolled in one of 122 institutions. Analytically, we weighted data to reflect national figures regardi…
Teaching Innovation Capacities in Undergraduate Leadership Courses
This study explored the effectiveness of a short-term, low-cost experiential learning intervention on undergraduate students’ development of innovation capacities. Data were collected from 90 students at a large Midwestern public institution across two randomly assigned conditions: those who received only a video-based innovation lecture and those who received the video-based lecture in addition to an in-class pedagogical intervention. Notably wi…
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