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Climate Survey 2019

Connect, Share Knowledge, and Succeed Within the LGBTQ+ and Ally Legal Community.

Southern Illinois University School of Law

Southern Illinois University School of Law

January 10, 2019

1. Does your law school intentionally seek out LGBTQ+ prospective students?
No
a. If so, how and where are your efforts directed?
2. Does your law school's welcome packet for admitted students include mention of identity group support for LGBTQ+ students, as well as for students of color or other minorities?
No

Our Welcome Packet does not includes this information but other admissions materials does.

3. Does your school offer students the option to self-identify as LGBTQ+ in admissions applications or post-enrollment forms?
Yes
4. Does your law school offer transgender students who have not legally changed their names the ability to have their name of choice on admission applications or post enrollment forms?
Yes

Yes, the School has a preferred name option.

5. Does your law school provide any annual scholarships specifically for LGBTQ+ students?
No

The School of Law has diversity scholarships in which LGBTQ identification would be considered an eligible category.

6. Does your law school provide funding, including travel support, for LGBTQ+ students to participate in LGBTQ+-focused learning and career services opportunities?
Yes
a. If so, please provide details and examples of when and how those opportunities have been utilized.

The School of Law provides funding for the LGBTQ student organization to use during LGBTQ History Month for several purposes, including travel, speakers, events, conferences, and promotional materials.  The Graduate and Professional Students Council also provides travel funds to students to attend conferences.

7. Does your law school actively seek to employ diverse staff/faculty/administrators, including visible, out LGBTQ+ individuals?
Yes
a. If so, please detail how and where recruitment efforts are directed

The School of Law posts positions for faculty and administrators on diverse email list-serves.

8. Please identify, to your knowledge, how many out LGBTQ+ faculty your law school employs (if any)
The University and the School of Law do not collect this information.
a. If you answered 'yes' or 'unsure,' please describe your school's process for collecting this data
9. Please identify, to your knowledge, how many out LGBTQ+ staff/administrators?
The University and the School of Law do not collect this information.
10. Does your law school provide benefits such as health insurance, family medical leave, parental leave, and nontraditional family planning such as in vitro fertilization and/or adoptive benefits on equal terms to same-sex couples who are married or in registered domestic partnerships as are provided to different-sex married or registered domestic partner couples?
Yes
a. If so, please summarize or reproduce your policy here

https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/stateemployee/documents/domestic_partner_and_civil_union_partner_faqs.pdf

11. Does your law school offer the aforementioned health benefits to students and their same-sex spouses/partners?
Yes
a. If so, please summarize or reproduce your policy here

https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/stateemployee/documents/domestic_partner_and_civil_union_partner_faqs.pdf

12. Does your law school offer transition-related health benefits to transgender and/or transitioning employees?
Yes
a. If so, please summarize or reproduce your policy here

https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/stateemployee/documents/domestic_partner_and_civil_union_partner_faqs.pdf

13. Does your school offer the same transition-related healthcare benefits to students and their partners/spouses?
Yes
a. If so, please summarize or reproduce your policy here (or you may email a copy of your policy to rishell@lgbtbar.org):

https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/stateemployee/documents/domestic_partner_and_civil_union_partner_faqs.pdf

14. Do all students at your law school have access to counseling and/or therapy services either through the law school or the larger University?
Yes
15. Does your law school provide at least bi-annual mandatory diversity and inclusion training that incorporates robust LGBTQ+ curriculum, for all staff/faculty/administrators?
No
16. Does your law school provide a gender-inclusive restroom in any and/or all law school buildings?
Yes
a. How is that restroom identified (i.e., what does the signage say, is it identified on building maps, is there a gender-inclusive restroom policy that applies to all restrooms and where is that statement published, etc.)?

The bathroom has a sign that says that it is a gender inclusive restroom.

17. Does your law school have one or more annual LGBTQ+ course offerings (e.g., LGBT Law and Policy, Sexual Orientation and the Law, Gender and the Law (taught with trans-inclusive and focused materials), etc.)?
No
a. If so, please list course names
18. Does your law school have an active, visible LGBTQ+ law student group that is supported by the institution?
Yes
19. Does your law school have a hate/bias incident policy that students are required to follow?
Yes
a. If so, does that process specifically identify sexual orientation, gender identity, or both as protected categories?

See: https://srr.siu.edu/_common/documents/scc.pdf 

b. is there a clear hate bias/incident reporting process for students/faculty/staff to utilize if necessary?
Yes
20. Please describe all additional ways, not identified through your responses, that your law school works to be safe, inclusive, and welcoming to LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and administrators:

The School of Law supports a student-run Transgender Name Change and Gender Marker project. See: https://law.siu.edu/news/2017/09-27-17.html

 

Equality Non Discrimination Policy 2018

domestic partner and civil union partner faqs

SIU Student Conduct Code