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Climate Survey 2021

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

North Carolina Central University School of Law

March 23, 2021

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?
No
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?
No
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?
No

The law school uses the annual NALP Graduate Employment survey. The 2020 NALP survey asked questions related to gender identity and orientation.

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?:
No

Students in this cohort would be able to change their names as would any other student. There is no special communication to this cohort.

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

Association of American Law Schools (AALS) interest group sites.

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?:
Unsure
a. If you answered 'yes' or 'unsure,' please describe your school's process for collecting this data

The law school provides a request for preferred pronouns and documents sexuality information when shared by the faculty.

9. How many faculty (not staff/administrators) are employed by your law school in total?
26
10. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ faculty are employed by your law school in total?
3
a. With reference to #10, how many LGBTQ+ faculty self-identify as people of color?
1
Lesbian?
1
Gay?
Zero
Bisexual/Pansexual?
Zero
Transgender / Nonbinary?
Zero
Queer or member of gender/sexual orientation minority group?
Zero
11. How many staff/administrators (not faculty) are employed by your law school in total?
47
12. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ staff/administrators are employed by your law school in total?
1
a. With reference to #12, how many LGBTQ+ staff/administrators self-identify as people of color?
Zero
Lesbian?
1
Gay?
Zero
Bisexual / Pansexual?
Zero
Transgender / Nonbinary?
Zero
Queer or member of gender/sexual orientation minority group?
Zero
13. 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 #13, 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 #13a AND/OR if you answered 'yes' or 'unsure' to #13b, please summarize or reproduce your policy here:

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14. Does your law school offer transition-related health benefits including hormone therapy, gender counseling, gender-affirming surgeries, etc. to transgender/nonbinary employees and employees who are undergoing gender transition?
Unsure
a. If 'yes' or ‘unsure,’ please summarize or reproduce your policy here:

Answer left blank

15. 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
16. Does your school offer the same transition-related healthcare benefits to students and their partners/spouses who are transgender/nonbinary or undergoing gender transition?
No
17. 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 nonbinary patients?
Yes
b. If you answered 'yes' or 'unsure' to #17a, please provide the basis for your answer (i.e., counseling center language, etc.):

All our university therapists and physicians have basic proficiencies/training in LGBTQQ—at least for the level that they are working with their patients. That’s to say, LGBTQQ can be very much a specialist area at certain stages of treatment that would eclipse those proficiencies.

18. Does your law school provide single-stall and/or multi-stall restrooms available to people of all genders (i.e., gender-neutral restrooms) in each law school building so that transgender/nonbinary people have a safe restroom space?
No
19. If your law school is maintaining gender-segregated (i.e., "Women's Restroom" and "Men's Restroom") restroom stalls, does it have a policy applicable to those facilities which ensures that transgender/nonbinary students/staff/administrators/faculty, as well as anyone who does not meet gender stereotypes, have access to facilities that match their gender identity?
No
20. 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 Identity and the Law

21. Does your law school have an active LGBTQ+ law student group that is supported by the administration?
Yes
22. 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:

Our LGBTQ+ student organization, OutLaw, has access to funding on the same basis as our other student organizations.  Our student fees have not supported student travel, with the exception of travel for our Law Review Editors-in-Chief to attend the National Conference of Law Reviews, our SBA President and ABA Representative to attend the ABA’s Annual and/or Mid-year meetings, and funding to our Public Interest Law Organization to support travel by any interested student to attend the Equal Justice Works Career Fair and Conference.  

Outlaw was awarded funding for the following programming during the past three years:

Diversity in Law School panel for undergrads 

LGBT Attorneys and Alumni Mixer 

Mental Health Panel with BLSA 

Local LGBT Officials Panel Discussion

International Trans Day of Visibility, co-sponsored with NALSA

Fall Panel Discussion

National Coming Out Day

Annual Trans Day of Remembrance

LGBT Attorneys and Alumni Mixer

LGBT Advocacy and Internships Panel

Trans Day of Visibility

50th Anniversary of Stonewall Riots

Law Week Panel Discussion

Durham Pride Parade

OutLaw General Body Meeting with Fall Speaker 

OutLaw General Body Meeting with Spring Speaker

23. Does your law school have a hate/bias incident policy that faculty, staff/administrators, and students are required to follow?
No
24. 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?
No
25. 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.
No
26. 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:

Our law school works to be safe, inclusive, and welcoming for its LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and administrators and continues to look for best practices in this area. Thank you.