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LGBTQ+: Page 2
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Northwestern University Passes Resolution Increasing Access to All-Gender Bathrooms
November 4, 2021
LGBTQ+
Coping with Mental Health Concerns Amid COVID-19
I currently live with anxiety and depression. I have lived with mental health concerns for over ten years, and I am still ok. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I would not have been able to publicly admit the first line of this article because of feelings of embarrassment and shame. However, by acknowledging my mental health concerns, I know that I am challenging stereotypes as a scholar-practitioner and saving a group of peers, friends, and family by just saying my truth.
July 12, 2021
LGBTQ+
APLU Panel Explores LGBTQ+ Issues on Campus
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) hosted a panel on Tuesday that included LGBTQ+ leaders in faculty and student life. Four panelists gathered to speak about their queer experiences, some shared and some unique, in higher education.
June 22, 2021
LGBTQ+
Discrimination Causes Disproportionate Harm on LGBTQ People of Color, Research Finds
Discrimination causes disproportionate harm on LGBTQ people of color, according to a research brief by the What We Know Project at Cornell University. “This research brief makes clear the tangible harms that discrimination inflicts on LGBTQ people of color, and the urgent need for public policy that reflects what the research tells us about how […]
June 17, 2021
LGBTQ+
Institutions Work To Build Community for LGBTQ Students — Even Virtually
According to the Human Rights Campaign, 15 anti-LGBTQ laws regarding access to healthcare, bathrooms and certain types of education have been approved in eight states since January. Additionally, 11 more similar laws are awaiting a governor’s signature. It triggers a kind of trauma, observers say, that LGBTQ students do bring with them to campuses that may or may not have special programs to shepherd and shield LGBTQ students from the laws of their states.
June 14, 2021
LGBTQ+
Teaching New Voices: This Academic Librarian is Working to Make Children’s Books More Diverse
Amanda Melilli wants libraries to reflect the lives of their readers. An academic librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Melilli is the head of UNLV’s Teacher Development and Resources Library (TDRL), which supports the university’s College of Education as well as educators in the Las Vegas community. In the past decade, the […]
June 11, 2021
LGBTQ+
Ending the Hate: Scholars Emphasize Activism for LGBTQ+ Social Change
People who identify as LGBTQ+ are nearly four times more likely than their heterosexual peers to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault and aggravated or simple assault, according to a study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law released last October.
June 9, 2021
Sports
An Increasing Number of LGBTQ Coaches Are Publicly Out, But the Work for Inclusion Continues
Over the past few years, it has become more and more common for lesbian and gay coaches to include the names of spouses and partners in their bios. Dr. Pat Griffin, professor emerita of education at University of Massachusetts Amherst and longtime advocate for equality in sports, describes it as a sea change, noting that today’s athletes and coaches are coming out into a much more supportive environment than existed 20 years ago.
June 7, 2021
Sports
Oklahoma Republican Legislators Emboldened in Anti-Transgender Sports Efforts After NCAA Seems to Give Ground
Weeks after the NCAA issued an April statement that seemed to threaten to pull championships from states with anti-transgender bills, the college sports organization awarded regional softball championships to three states that had passed bans targeting transgender children in sports, emboldening Oklahoma Republicans in their legislative efforts, The Washington Post reported. The annual NCAA softball […]
June 4, 2021
Faculty & Staff
Seattle Pacific University Faculty Vote “No Confidence” in SPU Trustees
Seattle Pacific University faculty have voted “no confidence” in the SPU Board of Trustees after it announced it would keep a hiring policy that they say is discriminatory based on sexual orientation, The Ridgefield Press reported. “The Board’s decision to maintain SPU’s discriminatory hiring policy related to human sexuality, as well as its manner of […]
April 22, 2021
Latinx
University of California, Irvine Law School Faculty Vote to Adopt Graduation Requirement Requiring Students to Take Race and Inequity Course
University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) faculty has voted to adopt a graduation requirement necessitating students to complete a graded course that includes substantial content relating to “race and indigeneity, structural inequity, and the historical bases for such inequity.” They also adopted a new first-year elective that meets the race and indigeneity requirement. […]
April 8, 2021
LGBTQ+
AERA Stands in Support of Transgender and Non-Binary Community in Statement Before Annual Meeting
American Educational Research Association (AERA) President Dr. Shaun R. Harper and executive director Dr. Felice J. Levine have released a statement against transphobia and in support of transgender and non-binary persons ahead of the AERA 2021 annual virtual meeting that kicks off this week. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Accepting Educational Responsibility.” “On […]
April 7, 2021
African-American
Northern Kentucky University to Investigate White Supremacy Graffiti
Northern Kentucky University will investigate – and increase nightly police patrols – after white supremacy graffiti was found on campus, the second vandalization since the year’s start, CNN reported. The graffiti, found on public space “Housing Rock” included spray-painted stencils of the words, “Patriot Front,” in reference to white nationalist hate group Patriot Front. According […]
April 5, 2021
LGBTQ+
LGBTQ Students for U.S. Evangelical Colleges Sue Education Department Over Title IX
LGBTQ students from 25 U.S. evangelical colleges have filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over their Title IX rights. The plaintiffs are composed of current students, recently expelled students and recent alumni who allegedly suffered actions from their colleges such as conversion therapy. Plaintiffs include – but are not limited […]
March 31, 2021
LGBTQ+
Dean Brings Clear Convictions During Divisive Time in Methodist Church
It’s a momentous time for Dr. Sujin Pak to take the helm as dean of Boston University’s School of Theology. That’s because the United Methodist Church is currently splintering over LGBTQ rights. But if anyone’s equipped to deal with conflict, it’s Pak — a theologian and LGBTQ advocate, whose personal and academic life share a common theme: reconciliation.
March 15, 2021
LGBTQ+
Baylor University Faculty Senate Passes Resolution Supporting LGBTQ+ Student Group
Baylor University’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution 26 to 9 to approve the LGBTQ+ support group Gamma Alpha Upsilon as an officially chartered student organization, Baylor Lariat reported. This resolution asks the school administration to allow the group to be an official organization. “This is not a policy vote or governance vote. It is our […]
February 10, 2021
Students
New California Bill Would Allow Transgender and Nonbinary College Students to Use Preferred Names on Diplomas
Under the newly introduced AB 245 bill, led by California Assemblyman David Chiu, nonbinary and transgender public college students would be allowed to put their preferred names on diplomas instead of their birth names, according to SFGATE. This is an extension of Chiu’s previous bill, AB 711, which mandated K-12 school districts update former students’ […]
January 15, 2021
LGBTQ+
Report Examines How HBCUs Can Create Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Students
The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released a report analyzing ways historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have fostered an inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) students on their campuses.
December 14, 2020
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