Diversifying students-as-partners participants and practices

In this issue of IJSaP, we are piloting this new “Voices from the Field” section with a collection of contributions that highlight the importance of increasing diversity among students-as-partners participants and diversifying students-as-partners practices. Two IJSaP co-editors, Alison Cook-Sather (faculty co-editor) and Sarah Slates (student co-editor), assumed leadership for this pilot section. We have taken an approach to crafting it that borrows from some established practices in publishing in general and in partnership spaces in particular and that experiments with some new ones. The goal of this new section is to create a space to share a diversity of emerging ideas, opinions, and perspectives on important questions about partnership work. More specifically, we aim to support the voices of those who might not normally be represented within traditional forms of academic publishing and/or who do not have time for, or interest in, working through the peer-review process but who have something to say. We juxtapose authors’ perspectives under categories that emerged from the contributions, and we present them with minimal editing, interpretation, or analysis so that the voices can speak for themselves, to one another, and with readers.