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| Autor/in | Messinger, Lori |
|---|---|
| Titel | Creating LGBTQ-Friendly Campuses |
| Quelle | In: Academe, 95 (2009) 5, S.39-42 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0190-2946 |
| Schlagwörter | Campuses; Colleges; Homosexuality; Sexual Identity; Work Environment; Social Attitudes; Social Bias; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Civil Rights; School Policy; Advocacy; Barriers; Equal Education |
| Abstract | It may seem as if colleges and universities across the United States support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, staff, and students. After all, the employer database of the Human Rights Campaign, using self-reported data, identifies 567 colleges and universities offering protection against discrimination, including 96 that protect against discrimination based on gender identity or expression and 309 that provide healthcare benefits to same-sex domestic partners. Other institutions offer nondiscrimination in admissions and university-sponsored housing and protection from harassment as well as "soft benefits," such as library and exercise facility use, ID cards, health-insurance coverage, and reduced tuition for partners; inclusive tenure and family leave policies; student programming; and gender-neutral bathrooms. But the institutions listed by the Human Rights Campaign make up less than 8 percent of the more than four thousand accredited institutions of higher education in the United States. Placing these data in a wider universe, then, complicates first-glance optimism. In 2007, the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP's) Committee on Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity recognized that a focused empirical study of success stories could offer role models and strategies to the 92 percent of schools not yet on the LGBTQ-friendly list. In this article, the author summarizes the findings from a study of successful efforts to secure policies that do not discriminate against lesbian and gay employees on college campuses. Harvesting the Grapevine: Collecting LGBTQ Success Stories to Change Campus Policies, a project of the AAUP's Committee on Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity, was made possible through the generous support of the Arcus Foundation, the Small Change Foundation, and the Gill Foundation. (ERIC). |
| Anmerkungen | American Association of University Professors. 1012 Fourteenth Street NW Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 800-424-2973; Tel: 202-737-5900; Fax: 202-737-5526; e-mail: academe@aaup.org; Web site: http://www.aaup.org |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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