@article{williams_2022, title={The Power of Campfire Spaces for Diversity Education: A Case Study Analysis of a Diversity-Focused Outdoor Adventure Program}, volume={14}, ISSN={["1948-5123"]}, DOI={10.18666/JOREL-2022-V14-I2-10963}, abstractNote={Diversity interventions on college campuses provide engagement opportunities for students to interact across lines of difference. Despite these efforts, hate crimes, racial and cultural insensitivity, and a lack of engagement with diverse peers are prevalent. This qualitative case study used an embedded single-case design to explore a new type of intervention: diversity-focused outdoor adventure trips. These trips draw participants from diverse campus communities and create bridges across student populations who might not interact otherwise. Findings from this study suggest that students experience meaningful experiential learning about diversity on outdoor adventure trips. Students are then able to create connections with diverse peers that impact their views of the campus and diverse peers in their community. These findings have implications for extending campus diversity education beyond the traditional classroom or workshop environment and demonstrates the potential for outdoor recreation and education contexts to be opportunities for powerful personal connections among diverse participants. These connections among individuals illustrate the potential for outdoor recreation experiences to forge new bonds between across disparate communities.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF OUTDOOR RECREATION EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP}, author={Williams, Nathan}, year={2022}, pages={34–53} }
 @article{williams_2020, title={College Student Experiences on Diversity-Focused Outdoor Adventure Trips}, volume={12}, ISSN={["1948-5123"]}, DOI={10.18666/JOREL-2020-V12-I2-9886}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF OUTDOOR RECREATION EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP}, author={Williams, Nathan}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={241–244} }
 @misc{andre_williams_schwartz_bullard_2017, title={Benefits of Campus Outdoor Recreation Programs: A Review of the Literature}, volume={9}, ISSN={["1948-5123"]}, DOI={10.18666/jorel-2017-v9-i1-7491}, abstractNote={Campus outdoor recreation programs and facilities have faced a number of public attacks questioning their value for students. Climbing walls in particular have become, to some, emblematic of waste and financial excess in higher education. Despite these claims, this literature review uncovers numerous benefits for participants and schools provided by campus outdoor recreation specifically and campus recreation more generally. For colleges and universities, these benefits include positive effects on student recruitment, retention, and satisfaction and the opportunity for recreation programs to support academic programs directly. For students, benefits include increased academic success, smoother transitions to college, better mental and physical health, lower levels of stress and anxiety, better and more numerous social connections, better intra- and interpersonal skills, increased environmental sensitivity, and better connectedness to nature and to place.  Subscribe to JOREL .}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF OUTDOOR RECREATION EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP}, author={Andre, Elizabeth K. and Williams, Nathan and Schwartz, Forrest and Bullard, Chris}, year={2017}, pages={15–25} }