Statement on White House Rescinding Dear Colleague Letter on Trans Inclusion
The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals condemns the action taken by the Trump administration in denying the civil rights of transgender students across the nation. The Trump administration recently rescinded the "Dear Colleague Letter on Transgender Students" that gave guidance to educational institutions on how to support trans students. The Consortium and its members who staff LGBTQ campus centers work to empower, build safety for, and affirm trans, genderqueer, and non-binary students, staff, and faculty on college and university campuses, and we will continue to do so.
We call on colleges and universities to legally encode in their institutional policies the rights that the Trump administration is no longer protecting. Furthermore, the Consortium urges institutions to continue to be bold and steadfast in their support for trans, genderqueer, and non-binary students, staff, and faculty: it is time that institutions rise up and support their trans students. Please refer to the resources linked below:
The Consortium Executive Board recognizes this is a dire landscape for trans students and professionals, and we see you and value the lives and labor of trans people in this work. We are here to provide assistance and guidance, and please reach out to us and colleagues as support and resources in this critical campus equity work.
-The Consortium Executive Board
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 04:33 PM
Celebrating 20 Years of the Consortium
The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals celebrated our 20 year anniversary at Creating Change 2017 in Philadelphia. Please watch the video below to learn more our organization's history.
We'd like to give a special thank you to Demere Woolway, Ph.D. for putting together this special video
Thursday, December 15, 2016 03:58 PM
Creating Change 2017
Please join the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals in celebrating our 20 year anniversary at Creating Change 2017 in Philadelphia!
Wednesday, January 18: 9am-6pm: Racial Justice Institute (Not Consortium sponsored, but we encourage Consortium members to attend) 7:30-9:30pm, Consortium Business Meeting (7:30pm-8pm Networking), Grand Ballroom D 9:30pm: 20th Anniversary Celebration, Grand Ballroom D Cash bar, free appetizers & birthday cake!
Thursday, January 19: All Day: Consortium Institute, Liberty Ballroom A/B The Institute will feature a morning speaker, regions meeting time, lunch on your own, roundtable discussions in the afternoon, and wrap-up with a mix and mingle opportunity for members to network. If you are attending the institute, please use this link to provide additional information to the Consortium for Thursday's Institute.
Friday, January 20 (all in the Consortium Suite): 8-10am:TGQ Constituency Breakfast 12:30pm-1:45pm: LGBT2 Constituency Lunch 3-4pm:Regional Representatives Meeting 7-9pm:Past & Current Board Members Gathering 8-9pm: Meet & Greet with Executive Board
Saturday, January 21: 8-10am:Grad Student Breakfast, Consortium Suite 12:30-2pm: People of Color Constituency Lunch, Consortium Suite 3-6:15pm:Consortium Academy Session: Advancing the Pipeline for QTPOC and TGQ Student Affairs Professionals, Room 410 (4th Floor) 7-9pm:Sober Social Night, Consortium Suite
Consortium Suite Hotel Room: TBA--We will update this page with the Consortium suite on Wednesday once we know the location. It will also be announced at the Consortium Business Meeting Wednesday Night.
Follow Consortium discussions at Creating Change with #lgbtcampusCC17 and we look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
Media ContactMatt Bruno & D.A. DirksCo-Chairs[email protected]lgbtcampus.org280 Madison Ave Ste. 912New York, NY 10016
Summer 2017 Consortium Institute Call for Proposals
Would you like to bring the Consortium board to your campus?
We are pleased to announce the Consortium's invitation for proposals to host the 2017 Day-Long Summer Institute! Your campus could host a professional development opportunity for your region. Since 2009, the Consortium board has hosted a summer planning retreat at different campuses across the U.S. including University at Albany-SUNY and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before the retreat, we have hosted a Consortium Summer Institute with the host institution. Since the retreat travels, we would like to take the retreat and institute to a new location where it can benefit our members.
In the attached document (also found online at http://bit.ly/2017instituteProposal), you will find descriptions of the Institute and the partnership between the hosting institution and the Consortium. The detailed proposal form (pgs 3 - 7 of the attachment) includes an opportunity to outline proposed dates, venue(s), logistics and much more.
Consider inviting the Consortium board to your campus in Summer 2017. The deadline for proposals is Friday, December 16, 2016! What questions do you have?
Endorsement for Congressman Hank Johnson’s Inclusive Campuses Act
The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals Endorses Congressman Hank Johnson’s Inclusive Campuses Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE September 30, 2016
The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals enthusiastically endorses H.R. 6164, the Inclusive Campuses Act of 2016, which was introduced this week by U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (GA-4). If passed into law, this measure would promote inclusion and empowerment of LGBTQ people at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority serving institutions. This federal legislation would take a critical step forward by authorizing Title III education funds to establish campus resource centers that provide support for LGBTQ students as well as programming resources and education about LGBTQ people to the entire campus community at our nation’s HBCUs and other minority serving institutions. “The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals was happy to work with Rep. Johnson on the drafting of this legislation and we look forward to enhancing our own membership support for the work of LGBTQ campus resource centers at HBCUs and other minority serving institutions,” said D.A. Dirks, Co-Chair of the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals.
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The combined vision and mission of the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals is to achieve higher education environments in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni have equity in every respect. Our goals are to support colleagues and develop curriculum to professionally enhance this work; to seek climate improvement on campuses; and to advocate for policy change, program development, and establishment of LGBT Offices/Centers. Learn more about the Consortium at lgbtcampus.org.
