Institutional Leaders' Public Responses to Issues Around Gender and Sexuality: When Silence Is Not a Virtue

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  In Roundtable Session: College Presidents Within the Complex Environment

Abstract

This qualitative critical discourse analysis examined ways institutional leaders at public research universities addressed local and sociopolitical issues around gender and sexuality. Findings show institutional leaders often avoided public responses to issues involving queer and Trans* students as well as ways language further marginalized these populations.

Authors

• Crystal Eufemia Garcia, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Jessica Weise, Auburn University

• Madhumalini Nadar, Auburn University

• Benjamin T. Arnberg, Auburn University