Diversity & Democracy, Winter 2012

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Winter2012Vol.15No.1

Making Excellence Inclusive: Higher Education's LGBTQ Contexts

This issue of Diversity & Democracy explores how higher education is creating classroom and campus forums that engage with LGBTQ issues.

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Making Excellence Inclusive: Higher Education's LGBTQ Contexts

By Kathryn Peltier Campbell

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Teaching LBGTQI Issues in Higher Education: An Interdependent Framework

By Heather W. Hackman, associate professor of human relations and multicultural education at St. Cloud State University and founder, Hackman Consulting Group

Applying the Seven Learning Principles to Creating LGBT-Inclusive Classrooms

By Michele DiPietro, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and associate professor of statistics, Kennesaw State University

Graphing Institutional Change Toward More Inclusive Environments

By Dorothea Brauer, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Advocate (LGBTQA) Center, the University of Vermont

Queer's Dual Meanings: Possibilities for Service Learning

By David M. Donahue, professor of education at Mills College

"In Dreams Begins Responsibility": LGBTQ Work in Jesuit Higher Education

By Sivagami Subbaraman, director of the LGBTQ Resource Center, Georgetown University

Perspectives

Queer Theory's Relevance to Student Learning

By Nick Davis, assistant professor of English and Gender Studies at Northwestern University

Breaking the Silence at Spelman College and Beyond

By Beverly Guy-Sheftall, founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College

Campus Practice

Delectable Diversity: Gender and Sexuality Studies in General Education

By Sara E. Cooper, professor of foreign languages and literatures; Gail Walton, assistant professor of child development; and Christopher Ivey, assistant professor of biology—all of California State University, Chico

Safe Zone Dialogues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

By Marilyn Kurata, director of Core Curriculum Enhancement; Rosie O'Beirne, instructor in the Department of History and Anthropology; and Elizabeth Casswell, student—all of the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Research Report

LGBTQ Campus Climate: The Good and the Still Very Bad

By Warren J. Blumenfeld, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University

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