Advancing Digital Campus Climate: A Conceptual Model for Bolstering Higher Education Inclusivity

“Whenever I see those little rainbow stickers, I know that there is a place you can go”: Visibility and sense of belonging for queer and/or trans community college students.

“…Websites then can be visual artifacts that communicate messaging of the institution and generate digital campus climates as it pertains to QT students as a pulse point to what the actual campus environment they might experience. Nachman and Pryor (2023) most recently developed a conceptual model to interrogate digital spaces for LGBTQIA+ inclusion. This model was built from their previous work where they looked at how LGBTQIA+ centers represented their resources through their university webpages (Pryor & Nachman, 2021).…”