LGBTQI
Tim’s Tips: U. of Missouri to Offer Benefits to Employees’ Domestic Partners
June 17, 2013 by Brock Read The Chronicle of Higher Education U. of Missouri to Offer Benefits to Employees’ Domestic Partners The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has approved a plan to extend health insurance and other benefits to the same-sex or opposite-sex domestic partners of university employees. The shift in policy brings the [...]
Tim’s Tips: Ugly Fraternity Incident at U. of Chicago
Ugly Fraternity Incident at U. of Chicago Inside Higher Education June 14, 2013 The U.S. Postal Service has cut off mail delivery to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity after an incident in which fraternity members mistreated a mail carrier, The Chicago Sun-Times reported. The mail carrier received an order for 79 postal supply boxes, which [...]
Tim’s Tips: An Unlikely Ally Preaches Tolerance and Respect for Gay Teammates
June 10, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education An Unlikely Ally Preaches Tolerance and Respect for Gay Teammates By Robin Wilson In a room full of college athletes, an image of a wrestling match flashes up on a screen. “I used to rip people’s arms off,” says Hudson Taylor, a three-time All-American wrestler for the [...]
Tim’s Tips: Expelled for Sexuality, and Sent a Bill
Expelled for Sexuality, and Sent a Bill Inside Higher Education June 13, 2013 By Allie Grasgreen When Danielle Powell signed a statement agreeing to follow the rules outlined in the student handbook at Grace University, a small Bible college in Omaha, she had never dated a woman and had no particular plans to do so. [...]
Tim’s Tips: Diversity Offices Aren’t What They Used to Be
June 9, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education Diversity Offices Aren’t What They Used to Be By Ben Gose Ronald Taylor, a sociologist who became a top diversity officer at the University of Connecticut, had built one of the broadest campus-diversity offices in the country by 2008. UConn’s Office of Multicultural and International Affairs, a [...]
Tim’s Tips: Where Have All the Queer Students Gone?
June 9, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education Where Have All the Queer Students Gone? By Dian Squire I can count on one hand the number of articles that empirically explore how queer students choose colleges. More research is needed on what queer students find important when choosing where they go to college, so we [...]
Tim’s Tips: The Campus Climate for Gay Faculty
June 9, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education The Campus Climate for Gay Faculty At a time when momentum for gay rights is growing, we asked several academics to comment on how, and whether, the campus climate has changed for lesbian and gay scholars. President Obama recently mentioned gay rights for the first time ever [...]
Tim’s Tips: Colleges Can Help Transgender Students ‘Be Who They Are,’ Says Leading Doctor
June 2, 2013 Colleges Can Help Transgender Students ‘Be Who They Are,’ Says Leading Doctor By Libby Sander Boston In the early 1980s, a student at Harvard University who had been born a female but lived as a male gained the trust and support of a sympathetic university registrar. Each semester, the campus official would [...]
Tim’s Tips: Suspect ‘Science’
Intelligence Report, Summer 2013, Issue Number: 150 Suspect ‘Science’ Southern Poverty Law Center Interview conducted by Evelyn Schlatter In July 2012, the journal Social Science Research published a study by University of Texas at Austin sociology professor Mark Regnerus that seemed to indicate that the children of LGBT parents are more likely to get involved [...]
Tim’s Tips: Openly Gay, Male College Basketball Player
Openly Gay, Male College Basketball Player Inside Higher Education May 29, 2013 – 4:29am In what is believed to be a first, a man playing college basketball has identified himself as gay during his college years. Jallen Messersmith told his story to the website Outsports, which reported on his experiences coming out at Benedictine College, [...]
