Vanderbilt is moving forward in making the campus more welcoming for all students regardless of their gender identity or expression in response to efforts made by students and a report issued by a GLBTQI Student Issues Committee.
There will be “five immediate key action steps,” Dean of Students Mark Bandas wrote in a press release: opening an Office for GLBT Life; hiring a director of GLBT life; working with various campus groups, especially admissions offices and The Commons, to “ensure that members of the GLBT community understand that they are welcomed and valued members of our community”; moving to amend the non-discrimination policy to include gender identity and expression; and continuing to investigate additional recommendations made by the GLBTQI Student Issues Committee.
“Inclusion is the foundation of an academic community,” Bandas said. “We can best reap the benefits of the challenges of difference in an environment based upon mutual respect and appreciation.”
The changes will make Vanderbilt the first school in Tennessee and the Southeastern Conference to add “gender identity or expression” in its non-discrimination policy.
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