LGBTQ+ Resource Center Professional
Intersectional Programming
Intersectional programming for queer and trans resource centers is essential to:
Collaboration & Engagement
Collaborative work is integral in supporting queer and trans students because it:
Support & Advocacy
Support and advocacy based work in queer and trans resource centers have been a pinnacle of our work since its founding in the early 1970s. Today this work helps students by:
Data & Assessment
The work of queer and trans resource professionals necessitates a scholar-practitioner approach to doing our work. For this reason, the intentional and effective data and assessment strategies that I employ:
- Encourage growth and strategic planning in meeting the mission and vision of the center, the division, and the broader institution
- Promote transparency and accountability
- Refine best practices informed by success and growth
Data about queer and trans students should be concerned with:
- disavowing assessment and data collection that reinforces transphobic, cis-sexist, and heteronormative concepts
- being attentive to the ways that data and assessment about queer and trans students has often failed to engage with critical and intersectional frameworks
- employing