LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education

On November 21 and 22, 2010, the second Meeting of the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education took place on the Antioch University Los Angeles campus in Culver City, CA.

Attending the November 2010 meeting were Ray Crossman of the Adler School of Professional Psychology (Chicago, Illinois); Charles Middleton of Roosevelt University (Chicago, Illinois); Theodora Kalikow of the University of Maine at Farmington (Farmington, Maine); Les McCabe of the Semester at Sea and Institute for Shipboard Education (Charlottesville, Virginia); Ralph Hexter of the Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts); Kathrine Ragsdale of the Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Charlita Shelton of the University of the Rockies (Colorado Springs, Colorado) and the meeting host, Neal King of Antioch University Los Angeles (Culver City, California.)

Founded in August 2010, the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education focuses on promoting leadership development for current and future gay presidents, supporting professional development for gay people at all levels of academe, and advocating equity and diversity through education.

More information on this group can be found on their website at www.lgbtqpresidents.org

(Video produced by AULA Communications; Joanna Gerber, Producer; Karen Mae Black, Director; Andrew Sachs, Director of Photography; Michael Frost, Editor; Dan Ring, Composer)

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[AmandaMiklik]

Thank you! As a young, queer college professional, I will carry with me your inspiration to live authentically and openly as I continue to rise in my field. Please know that a younger generation is so proud of everything that you have accomplished and endured to make a better world for us. We carry your legacy within us and will continue working towards a brighter future for everyone!

[olyguy2000]

@jameskworth The point is that the abilities of gays and lesbians are discounted and disparaged every day by society and certain media. This is to refute that ignorance, and maybe even to set public role models for gay and lesbian kids whose own limited life experience has never allowed them to dare to dream of pursuing goals that might otherwise seem to be off-limits. The video is made to open eyes. Maybe even yours.

[strawberryseason]

@BernardProfitendieu Hampshire College is a school that attracts very bright students.

[PaleFolklore13]

Please don't kill yourselves if you get bullied by co-workers

[pendorran]

@BernardProfitendieu It's almost as though gay people have faced systematic discrimination and barriers to their upward mobility, isn't it?

Incidentally for many years Harvard's chaplain was an Out gay man, the Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes of the Harvard Divinity School, while Stanford University's most recent Emeritus Dean of Law, Kathleen Sullivan, is an Out lesbian (who was considered for the Supreme Court last year).

[WINDYCHUNG]

how brave they are!

[osmodivs]

They didn't showed Harvard's or Yale's because their college reputation would be damaged.

[raymcvey]

It would be interesting if these folk went through a course of reorientation (deliverence).

Fags need healing I am sure - it's not of God. Sorry no hate intended.

[Rumake]

"It is love that makes a family, but it is marriage that protects it.”

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Ask a Gay Family Ep. 1 Is Daniel Disabled

[atheistrebel]

How sickening these people are! Every queer should be exported to an island far away!

[BernardProfitendieu]

not exactly representing the elite schools of the US, are they?