Campus Pride's Shane Windmeyer to present keynote, workshop at UD

9:41 a.m., April 9, 2015--The University of Delaware LGBT Caucus, in coordination with many offices on campus, has announced that Shane Windmeyer of Campus Pride will visit UD on Wednesday, April 15, to present a morning keynote address and an afternoon workshop.

Windmeyer is a leading author on gay campus issues, a national leader in gay and lesbian civil rights, and a champion for LGBT issues on college campuses.

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His keynote, “The State of Higher Education and LGBTQ Campus Climate,” is scheduled at 10 a.m. in the Trabant University Center Theatre. The presentation also will include a review of UD’s Campus Pride Index score.

The afternoon workshop, scheduled from 2-4 p.m. in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center, will focus on engaging productive bystanders to encourage a more welcoming and inclusive campus environment.

Both events are open to the entire campus community.

The LGBT Caucus is one of nine diversity caucuses at the University of Delaware, administered by the Office of Equity and Inclusion. 

The LGBT Caucus is committed to fostering and sustaining a welcoming and affirming climate on campus for LGBT faculty/staff, students, families and visitors by participating and initiating activities and programs that contributes to UD’s diversity goals.

The April 15 event is being co-sponsored by Haven, the Center for the Study of Diversity, the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity, the Office of Equity and Inclusion, Student Life, the Latino Heritage Caucus, the Women’s Caucus, the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Caucus, the Department of Women and Gender Studies, the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events.