From Coast to Coast: Chicago, Charlotte, Boston, Los Angeles & New York set as 2011 Campus Pride College Fair Locations

Do you want to recruit out LGBT and ally students? Thanks to Campus Pride now your college can do just that. Campus Pride announces dates for it’s fifth annual national college fair program this Fall 2011 specifically designed for out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students to find LGBT-friendly colleges and universities. More information online at http://www.campusclimateindex.org/events

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20011Campus Pride
LGBT-Friendly College Fair Program Dates & Locations

SOUTHEAST REGION - Charlotte, NC
CAMPUS PRIDE COLLEGE FAIR & PREP DAY
FOR LGBT & ALLY STUDENTS & FAMILIES
in collaboration with the Pride Charlotte Festival,
Time Out Youth & The Charlotte Lesbian & Gay Community Center
Date: Saturday, August 27, 2011
Hours of Operation: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Pride Charlotte Festival, Uptown on S. Tryon Street, between 3rd and Stonewall Streets
 
MIDWEST REGION - Chicago, IL
CAMPUS PRIDE COLLEGE FAIR & PREP DAY
FOR LGBT & ALLY STUDENTS & FAMILIES
in partnership with the Center on Halstead -- Chicago's LGBT Center
Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Hours of Operation: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Center on Halstead, 3956 N. Halstead, Chicago, IL 60613
 
NORTHEAST REGION - Boston, MA
CAMPUS PRIDE COLLEGE FAIR & PREP DAY
FOR LGBT & ALLY STUDENTS & FAMILIES
in partnership with Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth (BAGLY) and Friends of GLBT Youth, Inc.
Date: Saturday, October 7, 2011
Hours of Operation: 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: TBD
 

Campus Pride solicits Call for Workshops for Models of Pride College Track

Models of Pride, a free, one-day, LGBTQ youth conference, is now accepting proposals for workshops to be presented on October 15, 2011 at University of Southern California, USC.

Purpose:
The purpose of the youth workshops is to provide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth (LGBTQ), between the ages of 12 and 24, an opportunity to ask questions of themselves and their peers; to explore the nature of their orientation and identity; to gain an understanding about how their community relates to society in general; to become aware of community resources and realize that allies exist for them among their peers, in the adult LGBTQ community and in their schools.

Guidelines:
Models of Pride seeks proposals from both the youth and adult communities for potential workshops that embody our purpose. We encourage workshop proposals that integrate and acknowledge communities with regard to race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, culture, ability, age, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

Workshop Topics in the past have included: Relationships • History • Sexuality • Family Issues • Political Activism • Gender Identity • Mental Health • Culture • Safer Sex • Self-Esteem • Recreation/Sports • Foster Care • Substance Use & Abuse • Literature • Spirituality • HIV/AIDS/STIs/STDs • Education • Religion • Disabilities • Careers • Gay-Straight Alliances • Immigration • Arts • Hate Crimes/Harassment • Ethnic/Cultural Identity • Media/Communications • Legal Issues & Rights.

Campus Pride has confirmed that IN THE LIFE TV will be at our LGBT-Friendly College Fair on April 9 at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. The program will be featuring LGBT youth finding safe, welcoming campuses. In addition, The Chronicle of Higher Education will also be sending a reporter to the Fair to do an exclusive on LGBT recruitment efforts by colleges and universities.

"This is a fair that prospective students/families, as well as colleges and universities across the nation will not want to miss," says Shane Windmeyer, Campus Pride executive director.

Campus Pride will also be giving a FREE registration (18+ or older) to our Camp Pride, this year's Campus Pride Summer Leadership Camp held this July in Nashville, Tenn.

Learn more about the L.A. LGBT-Friendly College Fair...

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Please note: You must be 18+ or older or permission must be granted in order to be filmed and to attend camp.

Workshops, LGBT-friendly College fair among efforts to create safer, more inclusive college campuses; List of U.S. colleges and universities in attendance grows

HOLLYWOOD,Calif. -- Campus Pride, the nation’s leading non-profit working to create safer, more LGBT-inclusive colleges and build future LGBT and ally leaders, is proud to announce the datefor its first Spring 2011 LGBT-Friendly College Fair, to be held at the L.A.Gay & Lesbian Center in collaboration with LifeWorks, the Center’s LGBT youth development and mentoring program, University of Southern California's LGBT Resource Center and the GSA Network.

The event, the fourth in the program’s five-stop 2010-11 tour, will take place on Saturday, April 9 at the Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038. The event begins with a welcome at 1:30p.m. and ends at 5 p.m with special featured entertainment. The day also includes workshops and other learning opportunities related to scholarships, financial aid, the college search process and more.

Open and free to current or prospective college students and families, the event will bring together a diverse array of colleges and universities that welcome LGBT students at their campuses.

“The schools at our West Coastcollege fair in Los Angeles understand what it takes to create a truly welcoming, safe and inclusive campus for LGBT students, and they’re working to make it happen,” says Shane Windmeyer, executive director and founder of Campus Pride. “In light of last fall’s string of gay youth suicides, widely reported across the mainstream media, these schools’ participation in the fair is a welcome sign of change for LGBT young people.”

Among the schools and organizations participating: Emerson College, Mueller College, San Diego State University, University of Arizona, University of Rochester, Columbia College Chicago, California Institute of Integral Studies, Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis, Vanderbilt University, University of Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke College, Michigan State University, The Art Institutes, Carleton College, University of The Princeton Review, Carleton College, Syracuse University, The University of Iowa, The Trevor Project, SAT/The College Board and The Point Foundation.
Colleges and universities can still register for the event. For more information and to register, visit www.CampusClimateIndex.org/events.

This season, Campus Pride’s LGBT-Friendly College Fair visited Charlotte, N.C., Portland, Ore., New York, N.Y., and Boston, Mass. For more information on the fairs, other events, the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index and more, visit www.CampusClimateIndex.org or www.CampusPride.org.

Belmont University denies gay-straight student org

Nashville, Tenn.'s Belmont University has denied the formation of a gay-straight student organization on campus. Student Robbie Maris is president of the group, Bridge Builders. He says it started after a Facebook group was formed to support students at the private Christian (formerly Baptist) school.

"I know a lot of the gay community at Belmont feels marginalized and feels like they don't have a place to meet on campus," Maris told Nashville's News Channel 5.

University administrators said in a statement: "Recognizing the importance of mutual respect and diverse opinions from Christian perspectives and the challenges of cultivating such informal dialog on these issues, the university chose not to meet their request, but to create a university-led opportunity for this discussion. Beginning last spring, a university sponsored discussion group on these issues has convened twice monthly and expects to continue for the duration of this academic year." Read more...

Christian fraternity kicks out members

Two former members of Beta Upsilon Chi, a Christian fraternity at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., say they were told to leave the group because their sexual orientation violated the fraternities code of conduct. Read more...

Community college students want GSA

Students at Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz., want to start a gay-straight alliance of their own, student paper Aztec Press reports. Read more...

Will Rutgers amend their policies?

New Jersey's Rutgers University has been at the center of controversies over student safety and LGBT inclusion on college campuses ever since student Tyler Clementi committed suicide in September. The Daily Princetonian explores the colleges current policies and discussions on possible amendments. Read more...

UCLA ROTC follows 'Don't Ask'

The University of California-Los Angeles' student newspaper, Daily Bruin, explores the college's policies as it relates to the campus ROTC program. Read more...

Canadian school district asks students about sexual orientation

As American colleges determine whether or not to ask students voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender-identity, one Canadian school district is beating them to the punch. Canada's Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is conducting a voluntary, anonymous survey of each of its students in grades 7-12. They'll ask 150,000 students a variety of questions, including, according to the blog Queerty, "how much money their parents make, what religion they belong to, and what kind of job they imagine holding down in the future." The survey also askes if "they like boys or girls or both." Grades 6 and below will receive a different questionnaire. Read more...

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

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Campus Pride Announces New Locations & Dates for Gay-Friendly College Fairs this Fall 2009 & Spring 2010

Boston, Los Angeles & New York are targeted for larger fair attendance along with strategic partnerships with local youth organizations

Charlotte, NC, June 18, 2009 – Do you want to recruit out LGBT and ally students? Thanks to Campus Pride and local partners now your college can. Campus Pride announces dates for it’s third annual national college fair program this Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 specifically designed for out lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students to find LGBT-friendly colleges and universities. More information online at http://www.campusclimateindex.org/events

2009-10 Campus Pride
LGBT-Friendly College Fair Program Dates & Locations

New England Fair --- Wed, September 30, Boston, MA
East Coast Fair --- Friday, November 6, New York, NY
West Coast Prep Day & Fair --- Sat, February 27, Los Angeles, CA
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Two college fairs will be held in Fall 2009 and then a day-long college fair and college prep day will be held in Spring 2010. The first national fair is in partnership with Friends of GLBT Youth, Inc. based in Boston, Massachusetts and will take place on Wednesday, September 30. The second fair will be on Friday, November 6 in partnership with Youth Enrichment Services of the LGBT Community Center in New York City. The last fair will be a day-long college prep conference and fair to support LGBT and ally youth and families in the college application process, financial aid, search, campus visits, scholarships, etc. This college prep event will be in partnership with the University of Southern California’s LGBT Resource Center.