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Our Place on Campus Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Services and Programs in Higher Education
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Ronni Sanlo, ed., Sue Rankin, ed., Robert Schoenberg, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-31406-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31406-3
296 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students arrive on campuses every year expecting their voices to be heard, their concerns acknowledged, and their needs met in a welcoming educational environment. The establishment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Centers on campuses has transformed colleges and universities into places where social justice prevails. This book provides guidelines for establishing and operating LGBT centers or program offices on their own campuses.

Subjects include:
  • The history of LGBT centers in higher education
  • Needs assessments, proposal development, and types of centers
  • Issues related to documentation of the LGBT campus population
  • Starting an LGBT center or office on campus
  • Hiring center directors
  • Strategic development for successful action planning
  • The importance of advisory boards for LGBT centers and programs
  • Selection and implementation of basic services and programs
  • Visibility, funding, and staffing issues.

This book is a collaborative effort among three colleagues who have spent years working to build the profession of the LGBT Campus Resource Center Director. Colleagues from the LGBT Centers around the country provided many of the case studies and authored several of the chapters.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    LGBT Centers on Campus: What Are They and Why Do You Need Them?
    An Overview of This New Profession in Higher Education
    Assessing the Needs and Proposing Solutions
    The Development and Administration of Campus LGBT Centers and Offices by Brett Beemyn
    Documenting Their Existence: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students on Campus by Therese Eyermann and Ronni Sanlo
    Starting Your Program or Center
    Matching Directors and Centers or Offices: Hiring for Success
    Developing a Strategic Plan
    Developing Your Vision, Mission, Goals, and Evaluation: Building Your Action Plan
    Advisory Boards
    Identifying and Providing Programs and Services
    Selecting and Implementing Services: The Basics of an Active Center or Office
    Safe Zones and Allies Programs
    Mentoring Programs by Patricia Alford-Keating
    Advocacy and Judicial Response
    LGBT Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Organizations
    The Power of a System-Wide Organization: The University of California LGBTI Association by Jonathan Winters
    Selecting and Implementing Programs
    The Lavender Leader: An Inqueery Into Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Leadership
    LGBT Peer Counselors by Christine Browning and Patricia Walsh
    Lavender Graduation: Acknowledging the Lives and Achievements of LGBT College Students
    Maintaining Your Center
    Managing Ancillary Staff by Steven J. Leider
    Creating Visibility and Positive Public Relations
    Funding and Development
    Grass-Roots Activism versus the Ivory Tower
    Appendix A: Directory of the National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education
    Appendix B: Campus Climate Report: Three Meta-Analysis Themes
    Appendix C: Summary of Recommendations for Change
    Appendix D: Example of Structure
    Appendix E: Center Director Position Description
    Appendix F: Pennsylvania State University's LGBT Resource Room Goals and Action Plan
    Appendix G: Inventory of Questions for Service Providers
    Appendix H: Referral Letter, Resource Guide Referral Form, and Survey of Community Practitioners
    Appendix I: National Organizations
    Appendix J: Resources for LGBT Centers, Services, Programs, and Libraries
    Appendix K: Announcement of the Safe Zones Program to Student and Campus Life Staff
    Appendix L: Testimony to the Regents of the University of California
    Appendix M: Associations and Agents that Provide Speakers and Entertainers
    Appendix N: Lavender Graduation Certificate of Distinction
    References
    Index
About the Author: RONNI SANLO is Director, University of California, Los Angeles, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center and a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education.

SUE RANKIN is Senior Diversity Planning Analyst and Coordinator of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equity at Pennsylvania State University.

ROBERT SCHOENBERG has been the director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most advanced programs of its kind in the nation, since its founding in 1982.
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