Faculty behaviors like patience, approachability, and multiple knowledge conveying methods can help students overcome academic struggles and improve their graduation rates.

How Students Experience Faculty Responses to Academic Struggle

The struggle for academic freedom at Boaziçi University demonstrates that defending it in an age of post-truth requires a broader approach, involving political, economic, and social factors.

The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

Academic work is not isolated from the "real" world, but rather, working with others can provide new perspectives and possibilities.

Situating Struggle, an Academic Journey

This chapter explores the emotional side of academic struggle to better understand students' reticence to seek help and their irrational behaviors when faced with challenges.

What Struggle Feels Like

A 4-month goal-setting program significantly improves academic performance in struggling undergraduate students compared to a control group.

Setting, elaborating, and reflecting on personal goals improves academic performance.

Academic researchers' struggles to position themselves in relation to disciplines are shaped by their own valuation discourses, which may differ from those of peers, institutions, and stakeholders in higher education.

Valuation discourses and disciplinary positioning struggles of academic researchers—A case study of ‘maverick’ academics

Adult learners' emotional struggles in academic writing should be acknowledged and nurtured, as they play a crucial role in their learning and personal growth.

Capturing the struggle: adult learners and academic writing

Negative academic reference comments, lower A level grade, and late offer of a place are significant predictors of struggling in medical school.

Predicting the “strugglers”: a case-control study of students at Nottingham University Medical School

International undergraduates may not struggle academically as a generalization, as only a small proportion of them do, and the number of struggling students may fluctuate from year to year.

Are International Undergraduates Struggling Academically

Financial pressures at regional public universities in the US can lead to various academic identity struggles, with researchers experiencing the most distress due to limited research time.

‘I’m being pulled in too many different directions’: academic identity tensions at regional public universities in challenging economic times

Teaching authentic leadership to MBA students involves identity regulation for both students and academics, requiring courage to acknowledge its relevance for teacher-leaders.

Make me authentic, but not here: Reflexive struggles with academic identity and authentic leadership

Knowledge of struggle does not limit academic success for low-income African-American adolescents, but may contribute to their sense of human agency and academic motivation.

Dispositions Toward (Collective) Struggle and Educational Resilience in the Inner City: A Case Analysis of Six African-American High School Students

Academic capitalism, where universities compete for funds, staff, and students, has led to a global struggle for academic excellence.

Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence

Struggling students from Historically Excluded Groups perceive academic success as identifying performance measures, developing a growth mindset, and integrating knowledge, while identifying supportive instructors who create more motivation and understanding.

Views of Struggling Students from Historically Excluded Groups on Academic Success and Instructor Support

Academic women face workplace hostilities and stressors, with stressors varying by rank, and successful supports can help improve equity in the academy.

Gender inequality in the academy: microaggressions, work-life conflict, and academic rank

A toolkit of academic and non-academic flags can help early identify students likely to struggle in graduate-entry medicine courses, aiding targeted support and interventions.

Profiling strugglers in a graduate-entry medicine course at Nottingham: a retrospective case study

Productive struggle in middle school mathematics classrooms can support learning with understanding, and teachers can use this framework to integrate struggle into tasks and instructional practices.

Productive struggle in middle school mathematics classrooms

Students to be able to comfortably inhabit both writer and academic roles, recognizing their importance in discovering meanings and communicating with others through writing.

Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals.

Medical students experiencing academic difficulty often hide their struggles and avoid support systems, highlighting the need for programs that normalize access and encourage early intervention.

Dealing with Academic Difficulty in Medical School: A Pilot Study

Learning about great scientists' struggles through failures and struggles improves student motivation and academic performance in science, particularly for low-performing students.

Even Einstein Struggled: Effects of Learning About Great Scientists’ Struggles on High School Students’ Motivation to Learn Science

These studies suggest that academic struggles can be influenced by faculty behaviors, emotional factors, goal-setting programs, and financial pressures, while some studies suggest that international undergraduates and medical students face specific challenges.