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Presentation
Student Affairs Professionals Accruing Social Capital: Examining Bias Response Teams
ACPA Annual Conference (2015)
  • Lucy A. LePeau, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • J.T. Snipes
  • Hilary B. Zimmerman, University of California - Los Angeles
  • Demetri L. Morgan, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract

One way that institutions have responded to hostile campus environments for minoritized students is by creating bias response teams. Based on a larger study, researchers use Rhoads and Black’s (1995) conceptualization of student affairs professionals as transformative educators and Stanton-Salazar’s (2011) framework of how institutional agents use social capital to examine how student affairs practitioners accrue social capital when responding to bias incidents. Our findings connect to student affairs professionals’ ongoing development of the equity, diversity, and inclusion professional competency

Keywords
  • Higher Education,
  • Student Affairs,
  • Student Affairs Professionals,
  • Social Capital
Publication Date
Spring March 7, 2015
Citation Information
Lucy A. LePeau, J.T. Snipes, Hilary B. Zimmerman and Demetri L. Morgan. "Student Affairs Professionals Accruing Social Capital: Examining Bias Response Teams" ACPA Annual Conference (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/demetrilmorgan/8/