Submissions

JCERT welcomes a wide variety of submission topics, including but not limited to articles that explore:

  • Teaching and learning in higher education
  • Educational liberation and transformative pedagogies 
  • Active learning and peer-to-peer learning
  • Assessment, feedback, and evaluation practices
  • Equity-focused and alternative assessments 
  • Inclusive, equitable, and culturally responsive pedagogy
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • Creating a culture of belonging and student care
  • Community-engaged teaching, research, and experiential learning
  • Examples of pluralism, dialogue, and democratic education in curriculum
  • Career-connected teaching and learning
  • Online, hybrid, and HyFlex instruction
  • Interdisciplinary teaching and curriculum innovation
  • Academic support and student services
  • Student engagement, motivation, and success
  • Educational technology, artificial intelligence, and digital learning
  • Faculty development and professional learning
  • Faculty and staff teaching, writing, research and mentoring programs
  • Institutional initiatives that support teaching and learning

Types of Manuscripts Accepted

The majority of published articles will fall into one of four priorities of focus:

  • Innovative Teaching Practices and Reflective Practice Essays
  • Original Research Articles
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Studies
  • Case Studies

Please see submission requirements below if you intend to submit a work falling into one of the above priorities of focus. 

In addition, JCERT is open to and welcomes a variety of scholarly contributions, including:

  • Faculty Development Initiatives
  • Book or Resource Reviews (by invitation)
  • Perspectives and Commentary Pieces

Before submitting a finished work in one of these categories, please send an abstract and letter of inquiry to [email protected]. 

Although our journal is based at Hunter College, we welcome submissions from everyone. We take pride in a formative, supportive double-blind peer review process and welcome submissions from early-career faculty, clinical faculty, part-time faculty, and graduate teaching fellows. 

Submission Requirements

For articles fitting one of JCERT’s priorities of focus in format, please send approximately 5,000-7,500 words in length to: [email protected] with “Article Submission” in the subject line. We accept article submissions year-round and publish one volume per year. Please keep in mind that our readers are from a variety of disciplines, so the teaching intervention or innovation you share in the article ought to be portable, something that could be adapted to multidisciplinary classroom contexts outside the author’s own.

Submissions should include: 

  • A brief theoretical framing and basis for the teaching intervention or innovation;
  • Context for the course in which the teaching methods were applied (e.g., class size, format, discipline, mostly majors/nonmajors, first-year seminar, general education, etc.);
  • A clear description of your teaching intervention or innovation that is specific enough for readers to understand how it worked so they could adapt it and test it out themselves; 
  • A summary of the results and brief reflections on the outcome—what worked or didn’t;
  • Some ideas for practical applications of the teaching intervention or innovation in other disciplines or contexts

We will begin accepting new submissions in Fall 2026.