When applicants sign up for the Credential Assembly Service, they have the option of identifying as LGBTQ+. We don’t ask a specific question on our application.
We allow applicants to change their names on their application if they would like to. Using a name that is not tied to their social security number can affect ability to receive financial aid. However, we allow students during the application process to change their name.
Additionally, in the University’s campus management system, students are permitted to submit a preferred name that will appear instead of their legal name within University-related systems and documents. Students may also designate their preferred pronouns within University systems.
We do actively seek to build the most diverse pool of applicants we can for every faculty position, including LGBTQIA+ individuals. We have an Inclusion Advisor at the Law College who provides advice and input on our hiring and recruitment processes. All of our positions are posted on the University’s Human Resources web site which automatically cross posts on many affinity group job sites.
Additionally, the University’s Strategic Priorities Faculty Initiative (SPFI) provides temporary University financial support to academic departments enabling them to hire additional full-time, tenure- track faculty or continuing-eligible academic professionals who will enhance UA’s distinctive strengths in advancing Inclusive Excellence via equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusion as outlined in the University of Arizona’s Purpose and Values. The SPFI program provides funding to hire faculty who were not recruited through a search with designated funding. Candidates will be considered whose work will
1. foster new and creative ways of involving our diverse student body in an accessible and engaging educational experience that is aimed at producing highly capable graduates who will meet our state’s critical workforce needs,
2. develop new approaches to discoveries and cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, scholarship or creative work that benefits our diverse communities and addresses complex global problems, and
3. expand collaborations with community and business partnerships, including those involving traditionally underserved groups.
The University of Arizona has worked to achieve parity between benefits for married couples and for domestic partners. There is no distinction between same-sex or opposite-sex relationships in any of our policies.
• The State of Arizona administers health benefits for University of Arizona employees. Same-sex and opposite-sex spouses and their children are eligible dependents under these plans. Domestic partners are not eligible dependents under these plans.
• To ensure health coverage for domestic partners, the University of Arizona administers medical, dental and vision plans separate from the State of Arizona for employees with same-sex and opposite-sex domestic partners and their children. Coverage is designed to mirror what is available under the State of Arizona plans.
• Fertility treatment is not a covered benefit under the medical plans available to employees.
• Family and Medical Leave is granted to any qualifying employee who needs time off for themselves or to care for a member of his/her established household in compliance with federal law. Leaves of absence may also be available.
• Six weeks of paid leave is provided to new biological or adoptive mothers and fathers. The benefit is not based on sexual orientation or the relationship status of the mother/father.
• Under the medical plans administered by the State of Arizona (available to employees, spouses and dependent children), counseling and hormone therapy are covered transition-related benefits, but gender reassignment surgery is not covered. Under the medical plan administered by the University of Arizona (available to employees and their domestic partners and children), all transition-related care is covered, including gender reassignment surgery.
Under the medical plans administered by the State of Arizona (available to employees, spouses and dependent children), counseling and hormone therapy are covered transition-related benefits, but gender reassignment surgery is not covered. Under the medical plan administered by the University of Arizona (available to employees and their domestic partners and children), all transition-related care is covered, including gender reassignment surgery.
Students may enroll in student health insurance provided by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). Coverage for dependents is not available. Comprehensive fertility treatment is not a covered benefit.
Students may enroll in student health insurance provided by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). Coverage for dependents is not available. Since 2012, SHIP has offered a “Transgender Benefit” to SHIP plan enrollees. The ABOR SHIP’s “Transgender Benefit” affords students critical access to medically necessary, gender-confirming health care. This access to care is a crucial element to the health, academic success and retention of transgender-identified students.
The University provides numerous health related resources for LGBTQ+ patients. See https://health.arizona.edu/lgbtq-health Campus Health personnel have been Safe Zone trained. All patients at Campus Health have the option to include their chosen or preferred name on their medical record and the option to designate their gender identity and pronouns on both health history and registration forms. Campus Health encourages all patients to share their pronouns with their staff during the patient’s visit. Campus Health has all gender restroom facilities located inside the clinics on the 1st and 2nd floors.
Mental Health services through Counseling and Psych Services (“CAPS”), include individual, couples and group counseling, referrals to LGBTQ+ community providers, LGBTQ+ and Trans support groups, letters supporting surgical transition, psychiatric treatment, outreach and consultation to the university community, and to parents of UA students. The University recently added an additional location for CAPS, which is less than half a mile from the College of Law.
In addition, for the past three semesters the College of Law has supplemented existing counseling services provided by the University by providing no-cost, short term counseling for our students.
Students may enroll in student health insurance provided by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). Coverage for dependents is not available. Since 2012, SHIP has offered a “Transgender Benefit” to SHIP plan enrollees. The ABOR SHIP’s “Transgender Benefit” affords students critical access to medically necessary, gender-confirming health care. This access to care is a crucial element to the health, academic success and retention of transgender-identified students.
Medical services at Campus Health include consultation, initiation and continuation of hormonal treatment, letters of support for name and gender marker change, referral for surgical transition, and general wellness visits including at-birth bodies, and bodies in any stage of transition. There are medical providers at Campus Health that specialize in trans services.
Speech-feminization treatment is offered through the UA Speech and Hearing Clinic Services include extensive pre- and post-treatment evaluation (including body language, gestures, intonation patterns, posture, proxemics, as well as vocal pitch and tone. Eval – $200, Group sessions – $35 (when there are at least three participants), Individual – $80.
The law college operates out of five buildings, and of those five, four provide gender-neutral restrooms. The all-gender restrooms in the four law buildings (176, 428, 471A, 571) are identified with signage displaying both male and female pictograms.
None of these restrooms are identified as all-gender on building maps or College of Law online resources, however the two located in our main building (176) are identified in UA online resources. Both are accessible for people with disabilities.
Law Annex 1 (571) has two all-gender restrooms. One is accessible for people with disabilities.
Law Annex 2 (471A) has one all-gender restroom. It is not accessible for people with disabilities.
Law Annex 3 (428) has two all-gender restrooms. One is accessible for people with disabilities.
TOTAL: 7 all-gender restrooms, 5 of which are accessible for disabilities.
We have a class called Regulation of the Modern Family, of which LGBTQIA+ topics are discussed a part of many modules. Approximately 10%.
The traditional Family Law course includes LGBTQIA+ case law and a lot of intersectionality. Approximately 10-15%.
Employment Law covers briefly LGBTQIA+ topics on gender discrimination and benefits issues. Approximately 5%.
Bioethics covers LGBTQIA+ issues in some ways, regarding discrimination in health care and various reproductive issues. Approximately 10%.
PrideLaw is a longstanding, active student organization that provides social support to students, conducts programming for the student body, and engages the community at large.
In Fall 2020, PrideLaw welcomed students during new student orientation (flyer, presentation and breakout room) and co-sponsored a student diversity panel and held a celebratory end-of-semester “Queer Tea.”
In a typical year, PrideLaw also: conducts one or more Gender Marker Name Change Clinics; coordinates Safe Zone training for the college community (financially supported by the administration); holds alumni/networking event(s); conducts club fundraising/club visibility activities such as bake sales and social hours.
Generally, student organizations may request law school funds, administered in a grants format by the Student Bar Association and/or directly through the Dean’s office. Individuals may also request funding as individuals through the Dean’s office. (Because of the pandemic, no groups requested funding during the fall or this spring semester.)
Required annually. https://compliance.arizona.edu/training
Yes, optional for all students
The dean sends out a weekly newsletter to thousands of alumni and friends of the college. He has often featured participants in Pride Law’s reoccurring Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic, as well as a Transgender Clothing Swap hosted by Pride Law and the law school’s Justice Advocates Coalition.
Our Pride Law group has over the last few years been very active within the law school, with frequent events and speakers, and by collaborating with other groups on programming activities. In most (though not all) the group also has a strong affiliation with main campus LGBTQ+ resources, including the Office of LGBTQ Affairs (https://lgbtq.arizona.edu/). The Law College has also advertised Pride Law community events with the AZ LGBT Bar Association. In the Fall of 2020, Pride Law participated with other student affinity groups in a Student Diversity Panel via zoom. Panelists spoke to what law school looks like for students from marginalized identities and issues surrounding diversity or lack of diversity at the College. Attendees were able to submit anonymous questions/comments.
Arizona Law’s Career Development Office (“CDO”) advises students to use their preferred name on their resume and cover letter materials regardless of the name on their birth certificate (although applicants should disclose all names by which they have been known on their background check forms). The CDO’s interviewing dress guide also advises students to dress in accordance with their gender identity for job interviews, including mixing traditionally masculine and feminine attire if appropriate. The CDO has also updated the choice of honorifics on its cover letter templates to include “Mx.”
We have alumni who have been or are active in national LGBTQ+ efforts and who support, speak to and counsel students if we ask them to or if students ask. Alumni visiting the college to speak for other purposes frequently meet with Pride Law students as well.
We do annual Safe Zone training. Safe Zone is a campus-wide training program committed to making the University a safer, more welcoming, and inclusive environment for the LGBTQ community.
All student organizations are invited to submit a flyer for the orientation packet and encouraged to plan informal activities during or shortly after the orientation period. Our Pride Law group consistently does so. We also typically include a live orientation component about student organizations in which Pride Law is represented. There is a continually updated roster of student organizations available to all students, which includes information on organizational mission and becoming involved. We also distribute a daily announcement email (Day-At-A-Glance) and a weekly events/announcements email (The Weekly Bulletin) noting all activities for student groups.