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LBGT History at Michigan State University
2006 - 2007
The 2006-2007 academic year was our second year in 302 Student Services.
We began the year as the Office of LBGT Concerns and finished the year as
the LBGT Resource Center. At the beginning of the year, an Administrative
Assistant was added as the second full-time employee in the Office. Graduate
assistants were Kendra Kearney and Kasey Lance, with undergraduate program
assistant Tiffany Lane (all of whom had worked in the Office the previous
year). Kara Devaney served an internship in the Center during Spring 2007.
The Office/Center received an Excellence in Diversity award for Excellent
Progress toward Diversity Collaboration. "Office staff members have
worked to craft alliances among and between diverse groups of students,
faculty and staff; designed leading-edge programs; and partnered with numerous
campus groups to address students' concerns with the university structure.
They have led and collaborated on numerous initiatives focusing on issues of
sexual orientation and gender identity in a multicultural, multi-issue context."
Highlights
- Student Welcome and Resource Fair
- The academic year kicks off for LBGT-identified students with the
Fall Student Welcome and Statewide
Resource Fair hosted by the LBGT Resource Center.
- National Coming Out Days
- National Coming Out Days is the first big set of
student-organized LBGT-focused events of the year.
- Transgender Day of Remembrance
- The 8th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance was
observed on campus with a small number of focused events.
- Alphabet Soup Conference
- One hundred Students from Michigan State University attended the 2007
Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College
Conference in Minneapolis.
- Pride Week
- Pride Week this year included RENT at the
MSU Wharton Center, the National Day of Silence, and guest speaker Lauren Cameron.
- Lavender Reception
- This was the second year for this event, which was officially titled, "2007
Lavender Reception: LBGTA Graduates & Student Leaders Recognition Event."
Held in the Union Gold Rooms.
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