Documentation

I just sent an email to the MN Campus Alliance, who asked for an updated description of the college's GLBTQA campus resources. Here's what I sent:

*Q&S [Queer & Straight] Club
*/The Q&S Club is a student organization that invites all Century College students to meet together to discuss and explore GLBT issues, plan campus events, support GLBTQ students, and foster an inclusive community. Weekly meeting topics and activities vary, from planning our table displays at every semester's Student Activities Fair to watching movies together. Q&S student representatives attend twice-monthly Student Senate meetings to update the rest of the student body about the club's activities. Club advisor is a faculty member from Century's Women and Gender Studies Program.

*Ally Training Program
*/Century College's Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) program provides GLBTQ Ally Training sessions every semester. SEED invites a staff member from OutFront Minnesota to conduct the training. Participants are awarded an "ALLY" sticker, which they can then display in their offices and doors. Currently, 48 Century Faculty and Staff have earned ALLY stickers. The Ally Training Program also maintains a website: http://centuryseed.project.mnscu.edu/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={20047333-9660-46B7-85C5-39FFB0C184C7}

*WGST 1071: Introduction to GLBT Studies
*/This three-credit college course, the only GLBT course existing at the two-year college level, is offered twice yearly. It is taught by faculty from Century's Women and Gender Studies program, the oldest Women's Studies Program at a two-year college in the country. The course fulfills part of the requirements for the 15-credit Women and Gender Studies Certificate from Century College, the only two-year college in Minnesota to offer an academic certificate in WGST.

*"Dealing with Diversity: GLBTQ Issues in College"
*/This seminar is offered every semester as part of Century College's award-winning student retention initiative called Student Success Day. Facilitators include faculty from Century's Women and Gender Studies program. Students who attend this seminar receive certificates of participation and handouts that include resources and FAQs.

Makes it sound as if we have an inclusive, enlightened campus, doesn't it? Amazing how language can hide reality.