We recruit via minority bar associations and listserves and use welcoming language in our job postings.
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Psychological and Counseling Services Offered
Professional outpatient counseling and psychotherapeutic treatment is available to students at no charge. Services are provided by a clinical psychologist, clinical social workers and mental health counselors who are licensed in the state of Michigan at the highest level of practice. Students seek counseling for many different reasons including:
Anxiety and depression
Mood swings
Adjustment and developmental concerns
Self-esteem concerns
Relationship Concerns
Stress: academic and social pressures
Troublesome feelings including loneliness, shyness, fear and anger
Grief and loss
Academic performance and motivation
Drug and alcohol use issues
We are committed to enhancing the physical, psychological, emotional and relational well-being of the student in an attempt to promote personal growth and the achievement of academic success.
We have single stall, handicapped accessible all gender restrooms on each floor of each building of the law school and legal clinic. These restrooms are labelled “all gender” and have a handicapped accessible icon on the sign. They are located next to the single gender restrooms. In our library, all restrooms are all gender, single stall, handicapped accessible restrooms.
Faculty recently passed language for signs to be place outside single gender restrooms that indicates that these restrooms are available to female identifying or male identifying individuals. These signs will be placed outside the restroom entrances once we receive them.
Gender Law
All student orgs may request funding for travel through the SBA. I don’t have specific information on whether OutLaws has made requests for funding in the past three years.
Yes, mandatory for all students
Our dean, faculty, and administration are committed to maintaining a welcoming and inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ students, administrators, and staff. In the past five years, we have established all gender restrooms one every floor of every building at the law campus; we have hired four new faculty who self-identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community; we have established a equity and inclusion position within the student affairs office; and we have seen our OutLaws student group grow and become a strong contributor to student life at Detroit Mercy Law. We regularly have speakers on issues relevant to the LGBTQ+ community, and in planning programming, we are conscious to include this perspective. For instance, in a recent panel in honor of domestic violence month, we invited the staff attorney for the Michigan ACLU’s LGBT Project to talk about the specific barriers members of the LGBT+ community face in reporting and receiving care for domestic violence. One of our school’s core values is the recognition of the inherent dignity of every person, which necessarily includes the dignity of every member of the LGBTQ+ community.
In the application for admission and in a post-enrollment demographic survey, specific questions ask about gender identity and sexual orientation.