2010 State of Higher Education for LGBT People

Campus Pride applauds the reintroduction today in the U.S. House of the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA). The bipartisan measure prohibits any school program (including colleges/universities) or activity receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating against any public school student on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Campus Pride has supported the [...]

Next Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, you’re invited to join Campus Pride Executive Director Shane Windmeyer and Campus Pride’s Queer Research Institute for Higher Education scholar and 2010 State of Higher Education for LGBT People co-author Sue Rankin, associate professor in education policy studies/college student affairs at The Pennsylvania State University, for a special webinar exploring [...]

Now that President Barack Obama has signed a repeal to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, and as implementation of repeal proceeds forward in the next year, how should colleges prepare?  As a former U.S. Army officer commissioned through ROTC (and very proud of both), I tried to put myself back in time [...]

The year is coming to a close, and with it we have time to reflect upon this year’s wonderful successes, growth and achievements for Campus Pride. Summer Leadership Camp This year, college students, faculty and staff gathered at Vanderbilt University for summer camp like none other. Our phenomenal and inspiring staff led great workshops, sessions [...]

Campus Pride executive director Shane Windmeyer spoke to Campus Progress writer Jessica Strong last week, following the introduction of the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act, a bill submitted Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) that would require colleges and universities receiving federal aid to institute LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies. Windmeyer’s [...]

My first blog for Campus Pride focused on the aftermath of an alleged anti-gay incident at Emory University that made the national news.  In that blog, I opined  that leaders at Emory and on other campuses across the country should try to figure out ways to have something positive come from an unfortunate event on [...]

National LGBT civil rights leader, Campus Pride founder Shane Windmeyer kicks off his LGBT History Month National Campus Tour as IUPUI keynote and spreads his message against “bullying and harassment” to over a dozen colleges and universities across the country this Fall (Indianapolis, Ind.) – Shane Windmeyer, founder and executive director of Campus Pride, the [...]

The commentary below is written by Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld, Associate Professor of Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies at Iowa State University. He is co-editor of “Readings for Diversity and Social Justice and Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States.” What can clearly be referred to as a continuing epidemic, within only [...]

In the wake of two college suicides Tyler Clementi of Rutgers University& Raymond Chase of Johnson & Wales, Campus Pride reissues findings and recommendations from the “2010 State of Higher Education for LGBT People” released last week at a U.S. congressional briefing on Capitol Hill (Providence, RI) Campus Pride, the nation’s leading non-profit organization working [...]