Institutional Commitments to Diversity and Social Justice Displayed on Websites: A Content Analysis

Abstract

Abstract:Campus educators (i.e., faculty, administrators, staff) must clearly demonstrate their commitments to diversity, inclusion, and social justice to stakeholders (e.g., students, public) if they desire to uphold the commitments they make in strategic plans and public statements. Campus educators use institutional websites as one venue to communicate their initiatives to internal and external audiences. Through an exploratory content analysis, we examined 23 institutional websites to understand how campus educators provide evidence for their AA and SA partnerships as a means for attaining their diversity, inclusion, and social justice commitments. Campus educators may use insights from this study's findings to evaluate how they espouse and enact these commitments for creating transformative change on campus.