Question 1 provided each school with a field to confirm or update their nondiscrimination statement.
2. Does your law school intentionally seek out LGBTQ+ prospective students?
Yes
3. 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?
Yes
4. Does your school offer students the option to self-identify (also known as "Self-ID") as LGBTQ+ in admissions applications or post-enrollment forms?
Yes
a. If 'yes,' please describe your student Self-ID process:
We encourage students to identify through a separate diversity question, where in a narrative form students can identify their LGBTQ identity if they so choose. However, that information is not quantified and shared with anyone.
b. If 'yes,' how many students are currently enrolled at your law school in total?:
335
c. If 'yes,' how many self-identified LGBTQ+ students are currently enrolled at your law school, in total?:
Exact number unknown
Lesbian
Unknown
Gay
Unknown
Bisexual/ pansexual
Unknown
Transgender / nonbinary
Unknown
Queer or gender/sexual orientation minority
Unknown
5. Does your law school offer transgender and nonbinary students who have not legally changed their names the ability to have their name-in-use reflected on their admission applications or post enrollment forms?:
Yes
6. Does your law school provide any annual scholarships specifically for LGBTQ+ students?
Only general diversity scholarships
7. Does your law school actively seek to employ diverse staff/faculty/administrators, including openly LGBTQ+ individuals?:
Yes
a. If 'yes,' please detail how and where diversity recruitment efforts are directed:
WVU is committed to employing a diverse workforce and seeks diverse applicants through posting in diversity related organizations’ list serve, professional organizations, and conferences.
8. Does your law school conduct a "Self-ID" program which allows staff/faculty/administrators to voluntarily and (if they desire) confidentially identify their gender identity and sexual orientation?:
No
9. How many faculty (not staff/administrators) are employed by your law school in total?
Full time: 32
10. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ faculty are employed by your law school in total?
Unknown
Lesbian
Unknown
Gay
Unknown
Bisexual/Pansexual
Unknown
Transgender /Nonbinary
Unknown
Queer or gender/sexual orientation minority
Unknown
11. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ faculty of color does your law school currently employ in total?
Unknown
12. How many staff/administrators (not faculty) are employed by your law school?
21
13. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ staff/administrators are employed by your law school in total?
1
Lesbian
1
Gay
Zero
Bisexual/Pansexual
Unknown
Transgender/Nonbinary
Unknown
Queer or gender / sexual orientation minority
Unknown
14. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ staff/administrators of color does your law school currently employ in total?
Zero
15. Does your law school provide employee benefits such as health insurance, family medical leave, parental leave, and nontraditional family planning like assisted reproduction and/or adoptive benefits?
Yes
a. If 'yes,' are those employee benefits available on equal terms to employees in same-sex marital/domestic partnership relationships as they are to employees in different-sex marital/domestic partnership relationships?
Yes
b. If you answered 'yes' to #15, are those employee benefit plans inclusive of the specific needs of LGBTQ+ employees (i.e., are assisted reproductive benefits offered without the need for extended traditional attempts at pregnancy, are care techniques such as mammograms, prostate exams, hysterectomies, etc. available to employees of all genders, are parental leave policies equal for people of all genders, etc.)?
Unsure
c. If you answered 'yes' to #15a AND/OR if you answered 'yes' or 'unsure' to #15b, please summarize or reproduce your policy here:
Parental leave is offered for people of all genders
16. Does your law school offer transition-related health benefits including hormone therapy, gender counseling, gender-affirming surgeries, etc. to transgender employees and/or employees who are undergoing gender transition?
No
17. Does your law school offer a student benefit plan including health insurance with nontraditional family planning like assisted reproduction and/or adoptive benefits, and/or any additional benefits such as access to campus facilities?
No
18. Does your school offer the same transition-related healthcare benefits to students and their partners/spouses who are transgender or undergoing gender transition?
No
19. Do all students at your law school have access to on-campus health, counseling and therapy services either through the law school or the larger University?
Yes
a. If 'yes,' are your school's on-campus health care providers trained to ensure they can provide culturally and clinically competent care to LGBTQ+ patients, particularly transgender and non-binary patients?
Yes
b. If you answered 'yes' or 'unsure' to #19a, please provide the basis for your answer (i.e., counseling center language, etc.):
LGBTQ practitioners; inclusive language on site; support groups offered
20. Does your law school provide single-stall restrooms available to people of all genders in each law school building?
Yes
a. If 'yes,' please describe how the single-stall restroom(s) is/are identified (i.e., what does the signage say, is it identified on building maps and online resources), the number of single-stall restrooms available in each law school building, and whether these are accessible for people with disabilities in each building or floor
Sign says all gender; they are on campus maps; 3 are available; they are accessible
21. Does your law school have a restroom policy applicable to gender-segregated (i.e., "Women's Restroom" and "Men's Restroom") facilities which ensures that transgender students/staff/administrators/faculty have access to facilities that match their gender identity?
No
22. Does your law school have one or more annual LGBTQ+ specific course offerings (e.g., LGBTQ+ Law and Policy, Sexual Orientation and the Law, Gender and the Law (focused on trans-inclusive materials), etc.)?
Yes
a. If 'yes,' please list course names:
Sexual Orientation and the Law; Gender and the Law
23. Does your law school have an active LGBTQ+ law student group that is supported by the administration?
Yes
24. Does your law school provide funding, including travel support, for LGBTQ+ students to participate in LGBTQ+-focused learning and/or career services opportunities?
Yes
a. If 'yes,' please provide details and examples of when and how those opportunities have been utilized in the past three years:
Students have received travel funding and support to attend the LGBTQ Bar’s annual conference and other diversity-related or public interest conferences.
25. Does your law school have a hate/bias incident policy that faculty, staff/administrators, and students are required to follow?
No
26. Does your law school provide mandatory anti-sexual harassment training that explicitly covers same-sex harassment and harassment of transgender/nonbinary people, for all staff/faculty/administrators, at least every three years?
Yes
27. Does your law school provide diversity and inclusion training that incorporates robust LGBTQ+ curriculum as well as anti-racism curriculum, at least every three years? NOTE: Please check all that apply.
Yes, mandatory for all faculty/staff/administrators
Yes, optional for all faculty/staff/administrators
Yes, mandatory for all students
Yes, optional for all students
Yes, optional for all faculty/staff/administrators
Yes, mandatory for all students
Yes, optional for all students
28. Please describe all additional ways, not identified through your earlier responses, in which your law school works to be safe, inclusive, and welcoming for its LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and administrators:
We have an active OUTlaw student group and SBA Diversity and Inclusion group. We host speakers and events each year on LGBTQ issues and OUTlaw sponsors events and fundraising for LGBTQ organizations each year. We sponsor students to attend the LGBTQ Bar conference and Fairness WV Conference each year. We host implicit bias and anti harassment training for all members of our community each year. We have an active D&I faculty/staff committee who drafts a strategic plan and annual plan and who hosts Safe Zone and other training and activities for everyone in our community. We have a supportive LGBTQ Center on campus and mental health and health services for LGBTQ students on campus as well.
Our Enrollment Management office reaches out to LBGTQ+ student organizations at the various undergraduate universities where we recruit, both in WV and around the country. Students from our OUTlaw group work with the office to recruit and welcome prospective students and OUTlaw works with our LGBTQ Center on campus to recruit and welcome LGBTQ students. WVU also hosts a Diversity and Inclusion Day each year as a separate part of our recruiting efforts to reach underrepresented students, including LGBTQ students.