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What Institutional Websites Reveal About Diversity-Related Partnerships Between Academic and Student Affairs

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Little is understood about how campus educators within Academic Affairs and Student Affairs use institutional websites to articulate what their institutional commitments to diversity, inclusion, and social justice are and how they are enacted. Through an exploratory content analysis using LePeau’s (2015) framework on pathways to partnership (i.e., complementary, coordinated, and pervasive) to address diversity, inclusion, and social justice aims, we examined 23 institutional websites to determine what types of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs partnerships institutions employed. Findings revealed predominantly complementary partnerships, which means maintaining the distinct cultures of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs in diversity, inclusion, and social justice efforts.

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    Lucy A. LePeau, Sarah S. Hurtado & Ryan J. Davis

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LePeau, L.A., Hurtado, S.S. & Davis, R.J. What Institutional Websites Reveal About Diversity-Related Partnerships Between Academic and Student Affairs. Innov High Educ 43, 125–142 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-017-9412-0

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