Saturday was another great day at Creating Change 2013! The day included workshop sessions, a plenary on immigration reform featuring Jose Antonio Vargas, caucuses, and a MasQueerAde Ball for youth and young adults. During the College Student Caucus, students gathered to have small group discussions on the issues facing their campuses. Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Student [...]
by David Lamando, Student Senate Vice President, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Two years ago, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey entered into a ten-year contract to have Chick-fil-A on its campus. The food service company Chartwells licenses Chick-fil-A’s name, as it does with the also-at-Stockton Dunkin’ Donuts, Johnny Rockets, and Papa [...]
Register by December 14, 2012, and pay only $710 for Camp Pride 2013, next July 16-21 Campus Pride is extending its special offer camp discount until Friday, December 14, 2012! Register now to reserve one spot at the LOWEST RATE for Camp Pride 2013, which takes place July 16-21, 2013. This special offer is open [...]
Students are invited to nominate their advisors by 12/3; applications for the Voice & Action National Student Leader Award are being accepted until 11/26. Applications forms are available on the Campus Pride website. Campus Pride is pleased to announce the creation of a new part of the Campus Pride Voice & Action National Leadership Award [...]
The vote follows a campus survey in which just under half of respondents answered that Chick-fil-A’s donating practices go against Stockton College’s values statements. As conversations about Chick-fil-A continue on campuses across the country, Stockton College’s Student Senate is preparing to vote next Tuesday on the company’s presence on campus. The chicken provider has been [...]
Chick-fil-A continues to be a hot topic on campuses across the country, including Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia–the hometown of Chick-fil-A. Emory is widely known to be one of the most LGBT-friendly campuses in the Southeast, earning five out of five stars on the Campus Pride Index. However, campus officials’ response to concerns over Chick-fil-A [...]
By Laura Lee Sturm Laura Lee Sturm is a senior at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, where she is a Human Services major and German Studies minor. She also serves as the Vice President of Spectrum, Elon’s queer-straight student alliance. Elon University’s student government voted last week in support of a bill advising the [...]
There are three scolarship opportunities listed for ucpoming events such as the HRC Carolinas Dinner, the East Coast Stop The Hate Campus Bias & Hate Prevention Training and, as featured on Logo, the annual Camp Pride Summer Leadership Academy. All three have different deadlines — go online to http://www.CampusPride.org/LeadwithPride Apply online to get a free [...]
Illinois college first U.S. institution of higher education to ask students specifically about sexual orientation and gender identity on college admissions form (Charlotte, NC) – Campus Pride, a national non-profit working to create safer, more LGBT-inclusive colleges and build future LGBT and ally leaders, is praising the decision by administrators at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, [...]
Former rugby star Ben Cohen is taking his gay rights advocacy a step further with the creation of an antibullying organization called the StandUp Foundation. Regarding the collaboration with Campus Pride, Cohen said in a statement, “We are proud to partner with Campus Pride. They have a long, successful track record of working with educators [...]
The most important aspect of activism is knowing that people are always watching you for guidance, be everything you believe. Gandhi said it best, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
