Adam Matern
Mrs. Kuliyeva
ENC 1101-116
10 September 2015
LGBT Students and How they are Treated in College
Students’ opinions and school policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in college have changed over the years. LGBT students are typically treated the same way as regular straight students when it comes to classes, extracurricular activates, and housing which is both good and bad. Certain LGBT students may need additional resources such as additional counseling, housing adjustments, and other various things that schools are not currently providing. Typically on campus housing at Universities consists of one-to-three students in a shared bedroom with shared bathroom facilities in rooms assigned by male and female
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gender, schools typically do not aid transgender or non-gender associating students in room assignments. They are housed with a specific gender that the school requires them to pick in order to make the housing system continue to work. Typically schools have little or no policy regarding this issue of LGBT in housing and just make very limited one-time adjustments for students with specific needs. However there are some schools that are addressing the issue, such as Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut. Wesleyan is addressing the gender-housing situation by creating two gender-neutral dorm floors by which any students may apply to be housed in but transgender and gender-neutral students are given priority. How Do Colleges and Universities Treat LGBT Students? Brown Jr, Herbert C.
‘A Crowded Room or the Perfect Fit? Exploring Affirmative Action Treatment In College And University Admissions For Self-Identified LGBT Individuals.’ William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 21.3 (2015): 603-667. Web. 20 Sept. 2015.
This article contains an argument supporting the addition of LGBT students as an affirmative action group. It covers the history of affirmative action, the various court battles over its legality, and finally a conclusion on the positives and negatives of why LGBT should be considered an affirmative action group in Universities
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today. This article would support my research paper; it consists of information detailing how LGBT students are viewed in today’s society along with in the past. The article also suggests a possible remedy to an issue of not knowing how to treat LGBT students in the schools administration. It is credible because it is supported by the USF library, and published in the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, but also the lead author of the article practiced as a lawyer in his field before teaching and publicizing this article. Holland, Laurel, Todd L. Matthews, and Melinda R. Schott. ‘That's So Gay!’ Exploring College Students' Attitudes Toward the LGBT Population." Journal of Homosexuality 60.4 (2013): 575-595. Web. 13 Sept. 2015. This article covers how tolerant various college students of many different backgrounds and values view LGBT students. It covers how the study used multiple factors when understanding the student’s opinion on LGBT students including “religion, gender, and race” along with “politics, sexual orientation, academic class standing, and college of major”. The study does support cultural norms with findings exhibiting college females, democrats, and other-Christians supporting LGBT student lifestyles while students that classify themselves as republican, male, or Catholic/Anglican are not as readily tolerant of LGBT people. This article is able to connect how average students view LGBT people. The article took many different factors into consideration, much more than average, in order to expand on previous research already completed. I can apply this by confirming social norms in colleges regarding their backgrounds along with overall feeling and tolerance of LGBT’s. The article is included in the Journal of Homosexuality, a very popular and highly rated publication. Since the journal is peer reviewed it does carry higher credibility than most other sources. Klein, Alana. "A Question of Gender." University Business 7.6 (2004): 50-56. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Sept. 2015 The article covers a rise in engagement and involvement, housing challenges, and also how some schools are potentially remedying the issue of LGBT students in both on and off campus housing situations. The article points out how some schools do not have any solutions for housing LGBT students, especially transgender and gender-neutral students. Brown university specifically does not have an exact solution for transgender students, this university restricts freshmen to no single occupancy rooms but maintains that the addition of a new “gender-neutral” box on their housing application will suffice for now. This article is a printed publication in University Business Magazine, which is the most widely read publication at universities nationwide.
The University Business magazine is designed for top university officials at universities across the nation, and world. The author, Alana Klein, received countless degrees from McGill, Concordia, and Columbia University in her respected field of health and criminal law, and human rights. The article discusses what universities are doing about LGBT students in on and off campus housing with specific quotes from top university officials, along with specific policies and examples of some remedies to the serious
problem. McKinley, Christopher J. ‘Reexamining LGBT Resources on College Counseling Center Websites: An Over-time and Cross-country Analysis.’ Journal of applied Communications Research 43.1 (2015): 112-129. Web. 20 Sept. 2015. This article contains various statistics and information pertaining to how much information is being placed on college counseling websites. It suggests that there is just not enough being done online by colleges and universities to help and support LGBT students online. It also explains that many LGBT students that have not reveled their issue to anyone do not feel able to go into counseling centers, and with the digital age many students look online for help. Although it is not directly relatable to my research this paper contains many helpful points including statistical proof that LGBT students are the least accepted minority group on college campuses today. This source is found to be reliable. The source was found on the USF library website and also in print inside of the USF library, along with it being a peer reviewed scientific journal the author of the paper received his PhD from Arizona State University.
Discrimination is still a chronic global issue, and drastic inequalities still exist at the present time. Thus, the Affirmative Action Law is an important tool to many minorities most especially to women, and people of color, for the reason that this program provides an equality on educational, and professional opportunities for every qualified individual living in the United States. Without this program, a higher education would have been impossible for a “minority students” to attain. Additionally, without the Affirmative Action, a fair opportunity to have a higher-level career...
Civil rights is a topic which is on everyone’s tongues a majority of the time. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the spotlight was on racial equality. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was gender equality that dominated the stage. In the modern day, it has shifted to same-sex rights. There is always a battle to live up to what America’s forefathers had dreamed of for this country: total equality in society. While it is an uphill battle more often than not, those who push for equality gain enough momentum to succeed in an ever-changing world. The long fight against gender discrimination in the education system is highlighted by the important case in Grove City College v Bell, the effects of the verdict of that case between 1984 and 1987, the passing of the Civil Rights Restoration Act, and how Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act has evolved in the modern day.
Many people are pressuring colleges to change their admissions policy and abolish affirmative action. As a result, many colleges are abolishing their affirmative action policy. According the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), states like California, Florida, Michigan, and New Hampshire have passed laws prohibited the use affirmative action in public colleges or universities. In Michigan, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rul...
Lukianoff, G. Foundation For Individual Rights in Education, (2007). Hampton university denies recognition to gay and lesbian student group without explanation. Retrieved from website: http://www.thefire.org/hampton-university-denies-recognition-to-gay-and-lesbian-student-group-without-explanation/
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals people make up more than ten percent of the population; that means if you are sitting in a classroom of thirty, then more than three of those people are LGBT individuals. However, this overwhelmingly large minority group continues to be one of the least protected by the government as well as most heavily targeted by discrimination and hate crimes. Regardless of the powerful shift in public opinion concerning LGBT individuals during the last twenty years, the laws concerning hate crimes have remained invariable.
Affirmative action has been a controversial topic ever since it was established in the 1960s to right past wrongs against minority groups, such as African Americans, Hispanics, and women. The goal of affirmative action is to integrate minorities into public institutions, like universities, who have historically been discriminated against in such environments. Proponents claim that it is necessary in order to give minorities representation in these institutions, while opponents say that it is reverse discrimination. Newsweek has a story on this same debate which has hit the nation spotlight once more with a case being brought against the University of Michigan by some white students who claimed that the University’s admissions policies accepted minority students over them, even though they had better grades than the minority students. William Symonds of Business Week, however, thinks that it does not really matter. He claims that minority status is more or less irrelevant in college admissions and that class is the determining factor.
Reed, Rodney J. (1983) Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Is It Necessary? The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 52, No. 3, Persistent and Emergent Legal Issues in Education: 1983 Yearbook, 332-349.
He feels that the focus on “sex, sexuality, and identity is “terribly damaging” to society. He also adds that colleges are making the wrong choice by allowing students to choose non-binary pronouns. He believes that institutions like The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, which Binkley and Leff believe are falling below standards other colleges are starting to set, are actually making the right choice by choosing to keep their policies the same as they have been rather than changing because recent events. He contends that, like a trend, the need to acknowledge pronouns will
Introduction Known as one of the biggest obstacles in higher education to date would arguably be the use of affirmative action within the higher education admission process for both private and public institutions (Kaplin & Lee, 2014; Wang & Shulruf, 2012). The focus of current research is an attempt to either justify or deny the use of affirmative action within current practices through various higher education institutions, and though any one person could potentially be swayed to side with the rationale to maintain its use or disregard, the facts are quite clear that the future of this practice is unclear. Therefore, this essay will present current research in an attempt to determine if affirmative action should continue to be used within college admission decisions. What is Affirmative Action?
D’Augelli, A.R. (1992). Lesbian and gay male undergraduates’ experiences of harassment and fear on campus. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 7(3), 383-395.
Until recently, there were never any LGBTQ courses within a classroom. California was the first state to ever teach a LGBTQ curriculum. This has led to ignorance towards different sexualities. Most students are not taught about the varieties of sexualities. Therefore, they misjudge and undervalue people who differ from them. Even though Others may believe that one should not learn about LGBTQ studies because it does not apply to them, If more people were educated on LGBTQ studies, it would help increase their understanding of sexuality because it helps people understand the historical changes that LGBT members have been through, It promotes equality, and It gives people a different perspective on sexuality than the one they identify with.
Sex education has been taught in schools in the United States for many years. While some parents choose to take their children out of the sex education classes offered in elementary and middle school, most students inevitably learn about sex in their high school health classes. While sex education can be extremely helpful in terms of teaching students about STD’s and, where abstinence isn’t taught, how to use protection during sex, LGBT students are often left out of the curriculum. This oftentimes leads these students to develop feelings of abnormality at a young age since the kind of sex they desire isn’t being taught as something normal, leading to isolation and even harassment from their peers. It also may attribute to these students participating in unprotected sex in the future since how to have safe homosexual sex was never taught to them.
At no point in my life did I previously approve of the any individual who was LGBT. However growing up in a small community, I was not immersed in the community and did not get to experience individuals firsthand. I learned that these individuals are called numerous harsh names such as “Gay Kid, Fag, Queer, and Homo”. One individual explained that he was beaten every day that he attended school, and another girl said her entire family disassociated her until she changed her views of sexual orientation. I cannot imagine going through every day with the world against you. Just because of one decision, which in all reality is not even a choice, they are shunned. I have a cousin that attended the University of Northern Iowa, who was and still is homosexual. He did not come out until he was at college and his direct family was definitely not accepting of his sexual orientation. I am glad that UNI is a very open towards LGBT individuals. Everyone deserves to be treated equally, no matter if you are heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pan-sexual, or any other sexual orientation. I want to thank the panel for giving up a part of their day to educate others on the LGBT
The treatment of the LGBT community in American Society is a social injustice. What most people think is that they just want to be able to marry one another and be happy but that’s not it. They want to be treated like humans and not some weird creatures that no one has ever seen before. They want to be accepted for who them are and not what people want them to be and they deserve the right to be who they are just the same as any other human being. After all the discrimination they have endured they should be allowed to be who they are and be accepted as equals just like people of different skin color did in the times of segregation. We have a long way to go as a country but being the greatest country in the world in the eyes of many great America will make big steps to make things fair.
Society has shaped the thoughts and minds of many individuals and because of this personal beliefs towards LGBT people came into play. Society was constantly telling people that there was something wrong with them if they were LGBT and that they would go to hell for it because God did not approve of it and it was a sin. I would like to say that because society was judging people and denying them, that they were committing a sin. It is not their place to decide the fate of certain people, the only person that can make those decisions is God. God is the one that decides whether we are deemed worthy to go to Heaven or not. With that being said, I grew up in a family that is very religious on one side and the other side had their person beliefs