Moderator: Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride

Guest Presenters: Jennie Rokakis, student at Eastern Michigan University, and Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride
Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)

Fee: Free

Description: Gather your fellow LGBT campus leaders and join Campus Pride for this free “back to school” webinar! What better way to get your campus organization off on the right foot? Plus, learn from LGBT and ally college peers valuable tips for creating change, update one another on Action Plan progress and share in the discussion and brainstorming. You’ll also get a chance to hear about continuing opportunities to work with Campus Pride throughout the year.

Participants will:

• Discuss the state of LGBT life on their campuses, including progress that has been made and challenges.

• Identify strategies for making further progress, building coalitions for change and utilizing the knowledge of student leaders from across the country.

• Learn about resources, programs and services offered by Campus Pride that can help you succeed in creating a safer, more LGBT-friendly campus community.

Guest Presenter Biography:

Jennie Rokakis is a senior at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI. She is majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies with a minor in Nonprofit Administration. Rokakis is currently the Advocacy Coordinator at EMU’s LGBT Resource Center. She was also the president of Queer Unity for Eastern Students for two years. Rokakis has given presentations about the effects of Gay-Straight Alliances in schools as well as the effects of anti-LGBT bullying to many schools as well as at Michigan’s annual Parent, Teacher, Student Association conference. She is presently working on her honors senior thesis about the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. After she graduates, Rokakis is planning to get her masters in Women’s and Gender Studies. She hopes to someday work for an LGBT nonprofit organization.

Jess McDonald recently graduated from Elon University in Elon, NC, with degrees in History and Sociology and a minor in Women’s/Gender Studies. At Elon, McDonald was the president of Elon’s queer straight alliance, student representative on the Sexual Assault and Gender Issues Council, assisted in creating a LGBTQ Resource Room on campus, and served as student assistant to the newly appointed LGBTQ Office Coordinator. In addition, McDonald also wrote a thesis on the history of LGBTQ student life at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while at Elon. McDonald attended Camp Pride in 2010 and has since kept involved with Campus Pride as a volunteer, Pride Leader, and now as the organization’s Media, Communications & Programs Manager.

Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride

Guest Presenter: Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director, Campus Pride
Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)
Fee: Free

Description: The subject of Chick-fil-A on campus has long been a topic of debate among students, but recent headlines around this divisive issue have raised more urgent concerns about campus safety and what it means to an LGBT-friendly college or university. Chick-fil-A profits fund document hate groups that aggressively work against LGBT people, advocating for their criminalization, psychological abuse, and death. The purpose of these hate groups directly contradicts the idea of creating a safe space for students to learn in higher education, and Chick-fil-A products on college campuses have quickly become a symbol of “unsafe zones” on campus. Join us for this webinar to discuss strategies for educating your campus community, advocating on behalf of LGBT students, and taking action to challenge Chick-fil-A’s presence on your campus. We will also discuss larger concerns about vendor accountability on campuses, recognizing that this issue is larger than Chick-fil-A and relates to all corporations with whom institutions have relationships.

Participants will:

• Explore the policies and practices of Chick-fil-A and their impacts on LGBT people.

• Discuss techniques for educating students, faculty, staff, and administrators on your campus about these issues.

• Brainstorm advocacy tools and campus actions to increase awareness of these policies.

Guest Presenter Biography:



Shane L. Windmeyer, M.S., Ed., is a leading author on gay campus issues, national leader in gay and lesbian civil rights and a champion for LGBT issues on college campuses. He is cofounder and executive director of Campus Pride, the only national organization for student leaders and campus organizations working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. Released Fall 2006 by Alyson Books, Windmeyer is the author of The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, the first-ever college guide profiling the “100 Best LGBT-Friendly Campuses.” He is also the editor of Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities and co-editor of the books Inspiration for LGBT Students & Allies, Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity and Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian & Bisexual in a College Sorority.

Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride

Guest Presenter: Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride

Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)

Fee: Free

Description: LGBT students today are more out and vocal than ever before, and those students deserve to know which schools will respect them for who they are. As National Coming Out Day approaches on October 11, your university should be thinking about how it can “come out” as an LGBT-friendly campus. The presenter will discuss ways to make the historically invisible LGBT student visible to your university so that your institution can better serve their needs and increase retention. Tools and resources discussed will include the Campus Climate Index, LGBT-Friendly College Fairs, and providing optional identity questions on institutional forms.

Participants will:

• Explore the challenges of recognizing and serving LGBT students

• Understand how “coming out” as an LGBT-friendly campus can improve the experiences of LGBT students

• Share innovative strategies, tools, and examples of schools that have successfully “come out” as LGBT-Friendly

Guest Presenter Biography:

Shane L. Windmeyer, M.S., Ed., is a leading author on gay campus issues, national leader in gay and lesbian civil rights and a champion for LGBT issues on college campuses. He is cofounder and executive director of Campus Pride, the only national organization for student leaders and campus organizations working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. Released Fall 2006 by Alyson Books, Windmeyer is the author of The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, the first-ever college guide profiling the “100 Best LGBT-Friendly Campuses.” He is also the editor of Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities and co-editor of the books Inspiration for LGBT Students & Allies, Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity and Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian & Bisexual in a College Sorority.

Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride

Guest Presenter: Greg Miraglia, Dean at Napa Valley College and National Program Coordinator of Stop the Hate

Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)

Fee: Only $95 per site (includes web recording)

Description: “Safe Space” or “Safe Zone” programs have been proven to improve the quality school environment for LGBT students. According to the “2010 State of Higher Education for LGBT People” report, 70% of first-year LGBT students consider leaving their college or university because they do not feel safe. The same study said that a safe space program demonstrates institutional commitment and is one of the “best practices” for combating the harassment of LGBT students and staff. Safe space programs also provide a format for educating teachers, administrators, and staff about LGBT issues and bring about a greater awareness of the presence of LGBT students and staff on campus. This webinar will present how to set-up a safe space program on a college or university campus. Participants will be exposed to a model program based on the Safe Space Program designed by GLSEN and the Safe Zone Program designed by the National Youth Advocacy Coalition. The presenter will explain the essential elements of a safe space program necessary to make a positive impact on campus including required training and signage. A safe space program can be implemented by a wide variety of campus organizations including campus police. The presenter will discuss the community policing opportunities available with a safe space program for campus police or public safety as an effective way of reaching out and connecting with the LGBT community on campus.

Participants will:

• Discuss the impact of a safe space program on a college or university campus.

• Identify the essential components of a safe space program.

• Examine a model program currently in use on a college campus.

• Discuss the role campus police or public safety departments can have in a safe space program.

Guest Presenter Biography:

Mr. Miraglia is the Dean of Career and Online Education at Napa Valley College. He has 27 years of law enforcement experience and is currently the lead instructor in the area of human relations and hate crimes investigations at the Napa Valley College Criminal Justice Training Center. He is also the program coordinator of the LGBT Studies Program at Napa Valley College and created the Safe Space program for the campus. Mr. Miraglia serves as the National Program Coordinator for Stop the Hate and is a member of the board of directors for the Matthew Shepard Foundation. He is the author of “Coming Out From Behind The Badge,” and “American Heroes Coming Out From Behind The Badge,” both of which are about LGBT issues in law enforcement.

Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride

Guest Presenter: Genny Beemyn, Director of The Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride

Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)

Fee: Only $95 per site (includes web recording)

Description: In conjunction with the 14th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, we are offering this webinar for Student Affairs professionals and others in higher education to learn about the policies and best practices that support trans and gender nonconforming students. Areas covered will include housing, facilities, health services, student activities, athletics, and admissions.

Participants will:

• Gain greater knowledge of the diverse experiences of trans and other gender-nonconforming college students

• Learn how trans college students have faced discrimination in campus housing, facilities, health services, student activities, athletics, and admissions

• Learn ways to address this discrimination and the best practices for meeting the needs of trans students in these areas

• Receive resources and information about new research on the experiences and needs of trans college students

Guest Presenter Biographies:

Genny has published and spoken extensively on the experiences and needs of transgender people, particularly the lives of gender-nonconforming students. Ze has written or edited eight books/journal issues, including special issues of the Journal of LGBT Youth on “Trans Youth” and “Supporting Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Children and Youth” and a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality on “LGBTQ Campus Experiences.” Beemyn’s most recent work, written with Sue Rankin, is The Lives of Transgender People, which was published by Columbia University Press in November. In addition to being the director of the Stonewall Center, Beemyn is also a board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute and an editorial board member of the Journal of LGBT Youth, the Journal of Bisexuality, the Journal of Homosexuality, and the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. Beemyn has a Ph.D. in African American Studies and Master’s degrees in African American Studies, American Studies, and Higher Education Administration.

Shane L. Windmeyer, M.S., Ed., is a leading author on gay campus issues, national leader in gay and lesbian civil rights and a champion for LGBT issues on college campuses. He is cofounder and executive director of Campus Pride, the only national organization for student leaders and campus organizations working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. Released Fall 2006 by Alyson Books, Windmeyer is the author of The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, the first-ever college guide profiling the “100 Best LGBT-Friendly Campuses.” He is also the editor of Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities and co-editor of the books Inspiration for LGBT Students & Allies, Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity and Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian & Bisexual in a College Sorority.



Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012 
Title: “Creating A Bias Incident Response Team For Your Campus”
Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride
Guest Presenter: Pamela Freeman, Retired Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University, and Greg Miraglia, Dean at Napa Valley College and National Program Coordinator of Stop the Hate

Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride

Guest Presenter: Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride, and John Scholl, Delta Tau Delta, Iota Mu Chapter, Founding Father

Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)

Fee: Only $95 per site (includes web recording)

Description: Building a climate of acceptance for LGBTQ people in fraternities and sororities requires a commitment at all levels, ranging from individual members to the intern/national headquarters and including the university administration. Join us to learn more about the experience of being “out” in a fraternity or sorority and how we can all work together to create a more welcoming climate for LGBTQ people in fraternity and sorority life. We will discuss resources and new initiatives such as Lambda 10 and “Fraternities Against the ‘F’ Word” that your campus can use to challenge the stereotype that fraternity and sorority life if not inclusive of LGBT students.

Participants will:

· Learn about the experiences of LGBTQ brothers and sisters

· Understand the various levels of commitment requires to make fraternity and sorority life more inclusive

· Share innovative strategies and tools for making fraternity and sorority life more LGBTQ-friendly

Guest Presenter Biography:

Shane L. Windmeyer, M.S., Ed., is a leading author on gay campus issues, national leader in gay and lesbian civil rights and a champion for LGBT issues on college campuses. He is cofounder and executive director of Campus Pride, the only national organization for student leaders and campus organizations working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. Released Fall 2006 by Alyson Books, Windmeyer is the author of The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, the first-ever college guide profiling the “100 Best LGBT-Friendly Campuses.” He is also the editor of Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities and co-editor of the books Inspiration for LGBT Students & Allies, Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity and Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian & Bisexual in a College Sorority.

John Scholl is a senior at Quinnipiac University, studying Public Relations and English. He is an advocate for LGBT rights in the fraternity and sorority environment, and is a contributor to the “Fraternities Against the ‘F’ Word” movement at Quinnipiac. John is also a founding father of the Iota Mu chapter of Delta Tau Delta, and has previously served on his chapter’s executive board as the Sergeant At Arms. John’s other campus involvement includes Quinnipiac’s Student Government Association, Student Programming Board, and Film Society.

Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride

Guest Presenters: Susan Rankin, Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University, and Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride

Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)

Fee: Only $95 per site (includes web recording)

Description: For far too long, no one has known the score when it comes to LGBT-inclusion and friendliness in collegiate sports programs. However, this is changing rapidly, and Campus Pride is leading the way in researching LGBT athletes’ experiences and providing colleges with resources to create more inclusive athletics departments. Recent research shows LGB student-athletes are more likely to experience harassment and perceive a negative climate than their heterosexual counterparts, which adversely affects their academic success and their athletic identity. The degree to which athletic departments address discrimination and the diversity leadership (or lack thereof) from athletic personnel are directly connected to the experience of LGBT athletes. The presenters will shed further light on the experiences of LGBT athletes, as well as discuss recommendations for creating inclusive athletic communities through policy, practice, and institutional resources. Transgender-specific recommendations will be provided.

Participants will:

• Review national research on the experiences of LGBT college athletes

• Understand how the experience of LGBT student-athletes is both similar to yet different from that of non-athletes

• Learn more about the experiences of transgender student-athletes and how to better serve these individuals

• Share innovative strategies, tools, and examples of creating inclusive athletic communities

Guest Presenter Biography:

Susan R. Rankin, Ph.D. is a Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Assistant Professor of Education in the College Student Affairs Program at The Pennsylvania State University. Rankin’s current research focuses on the assessment of institutional climate and providing program planners and policy makers with recommended strategies to improve the campus climate for under-served communities. She was the lead researcher on Campus Pride’s recent report on LGBT athletes, which is the most comprehensive report of its kind to date. More info online about Rankin at: http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/eps/csa/facstaff/Sue_Rankin.

Shane L. Windmeyer, M.S., Ed., is a leading author on gay campus issues, national leader in gay and lesbian civil rights and a champion for LGBT issues on college campuses. He is cofounder and executive director of Campus Pride, the only national organization for student leaders and campus organizations working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. Campus Pride’s “Out to Play Project” recently partnered with Compete Magazine to release a list of the 10 “Best of the Best” LGBT-Friendly athletics programs at colleges and universities across the country. This fall, Campus Pride will release the most comprehensive national report on LGBT college athletes to date, sharing the experiences of nearly 500 self-identified LGBT athletes and providing necessary resources for further progress on LGBT issues in college athletics.

Moderator: Jess McDonald, Media, Communications & Programs Manager, Campus Pride

Guest Presenters: Pamela Freeman, Retired Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University, and Greg Miraglia, Dean at Napa Valley College and National Program Coordinator of Stop the Hate

Time: 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST (50-75 minutes)

Fee: Only $95 per site (includes web recording)

Description: As colleges and universities attempt to provide learning and living environments that are safe, inclusive, and welcoming, many are creating response procedures for reporting of bias-motivated incidents, including hate crimes and incidents of incivility. This session will focus on incident response teams as a procedure that can provide assistance to persons who have been affected by hateful or bias-motivated behaviors, while educating the campus community as an important step toward prevention of further incidents. Guidelines will be provided that can be adapted to various types of institutions in establishing and managing incident response teams, based on the decades of experience of the presenters. Designed for participants who already have response teams and want to improve them, as well as for participants who are planning new teams, this session will include ideas for communicating with administrators and the community-at-large about incident reports, rationale for having a response team, general principles for responding to reports, and pitfalls to avoid in establishing and managing teams. University faculty, staff, students, law enforcement officers, and administrators who either have a role in responding to bias-motivated incidents or wish to learn more about teams as an option for their campuses are encouraged to participate in the webinar.

Participants will:

• Explore why colleges and universities must be prepared for addressing bias motivated incidents (BMIs) and hate crimes

• Consider who on your campus should and could be productive team members

• Learn about pitfalls to avoid or address when establishing your team and other “lessons learned” at institutions that already have teams

• Receive guiding principles for successful BMI teams

• Gain practical information about how teams actually can and should function in small or large institutions

• Become aware of different methods for communicating with the campus community about incident reports

Guest Presenter Biography:

Pamela W. Freeman is former Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Indiana University Office of Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs, a unit within the Division of Student Affairs which administered the campus judicial system, three incidents teams (the first created in 1988), the Commission on Multicultural Understanding, and the Gay, lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services Office. The three incidents teams, which Freeman organized and co-chaired before her retirement in 2011, address harassment based on race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. Having worked with issues of diversity, prejudice, and discrimination, she also chaired the IU Commission on Multicultural Understanding since 1991 and presided over the IU Sexual Assault Service Providers Network. Freeman co-edited (with Shane Windmeyer) two anthologies about sexual orientation and membership in Greek letter organizations: Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity and Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority. She serves as a trainer and consultant for establishing campus bias motivated incident teams and continues to teach part-time in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Department at IU as Adjunct Assistant Professor. Freeman received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Purdue University and the doctoral degree at The University of Tennessee. In 1985, she was hired at Indiana University to develop and direct the Student Advocates Office, which was her primary responsibility until being named Assistant Dean in 1988 and Associate Dean in 2000.

Mr. Miraglia is the Dean of Career and Online Education at Napa Valley College. He has 27 years of law enforcement experience and is currently the lead instructor in the area of human relations and hate crimes investigations at the Napa Valley College Criminal Justice Training Center. He is also the program coordinator of the LGBT Studies Program at Napa Valley College and created the Safe Space program for the campus. Mr. Miraglia serves as the National Program Coordinator for Stop the Hate and is a member of the board of directors for the Matthew Shepard Foundation. He is the author of “Coming Out From Behind The Badge,” and “American Heroes Coming Out From Behind The Badge,” both of which are about LGBT issues in law enforcement.