Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
in Sage Campus
Sage Campus supports the teaching and learning of skills and research methods through structured online learning. We have clear and proactive commitments to showcasing a diverse and inclusive range of content, representing diverse peoples and populations and striving to implement equitable and inclusive learning design practices. We also implement rigorous commitments to ensuring platform inclusivity and accessibility so that all users can get the most out of their Sage Campus experience.
Our core diversity, equity, and inclusion pledges are below, and we update these annually. We strive to be open, honest, and clear about the areas in which we fall short or are working to improve. We invite feedback from our customers and partners about this at any time. If you have comments or feedback, please direct them to campus.info@sagepub.com.
Our Pledges
Representing Diverse Communities. We pledge to be extra vigilant in our practice to publish content that contains and reflects diverse communities of people, including BIPOC/BAME and different gender groups, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities. Our aim is for all our learners to find their experiences reflected in our content.
To place inclusive design and accessibility at the heart of our product design principles. We pledge to ensure our platform is designed with inclusion at its heart, avoiding designs that will exclude any user. We pledge to achieve high standards for accessibility for these platforms, specifically to achieve and maintain a minimum of WCAG AA conformance and Sections 504 and 508 compliance (Rehabilitation Act of 1973) so that our users are engaged and not excluded.
Showcasing a diversity of voices. We pledge to include a diverse range of voices and perspectives within our content from across the academic spectrum to assist academic conversations  and to heighten educational and research attainment for our end users.
Encouraging a diverse and equitable referencing practice. We pledge to work with our contributors to ensure that their content presentations cite or reference work from a wide range of scholarly sources, in particular the work of minority racial and ethnic groups, women and other genders, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities.
Key Initiatives
Our Editorial team are focused on expanding our Editorial Boards, specifically focusing on recruiting Instructors and Reviewers to support our content and platform development pledges. You can learn more about these ongoing efforts and outcomes on our blog.
Our Editors and Online Course Developer have been implementing Universal Design for Learning when creating our courses. In 2025 we will publish materials illustrating how our product utilizes the UDL framework, as well as an FAQ on UDL for Librarians.
The Editorial team continue to make diversity, equity, and inclusion representation a priority when developing curricula, content and resource lists for our online courses and course updates. In 2024 we made this resource available that shares open access anti-racist materials.