LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education
Education is a critical component to a tolerant, accepting, and developed world for the LGBTQ community, as it is for society as a whole. The leaders in higher education are important participants to achieving acceptance of diversity. They encourage gay academics to aspire to positions of leadership and push educational institutions to include issues of sexual diversity in their policies and programs.
This is most noticeable in advanced western democracies. The pursuit is more challenging in developing and less liberal countries because many of them view schools of higher education, and their concept of freedom of expression combined with teacher tenure, to be anathema to their centralized and rigid system of government.
We have identified a number of LGBTQ leaders in higher educational institutions around the world. In the United States, the group LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education has been formed as an interest group to advance the discussion of LGBTQ issues in the field.
Many universities and colleges around the world have incorporated programs which examine issues of sexual diversity across a broad spectrum of disciplines. These include law, medicine, social work, literature and poetry, business studies, sociology, theatre and film studies, and so on. The success of these programs depends materially on the support of the leadership of the educational institution.
Much needs to be done, but these LGBTQ leaders are tremendous advocates and leaders for diversity.
Canada
- Donald Ainslie, Principal of University College, University of Toronto
- Scott Brison, Chancellor of Dalhousie University
- Kim Brooks, Dalhousie University
- Allan Cahoon, Royal Roads University
- Ken Chan, Chief Administrative Officer & Bursar, Victoria University at the University of Toronto; Vice President-Administration, Brock University
- Sara Diamond, OCAD University
- Bill Flanagan, President, University of Alberta
- Robert Hanf, Dalhousie University
- Bruce Kidd, Principal of University of Toronto Scarborough College
- Wade MacLauchlan, University of Prince Edward Island
- Stephen McClatchie, Huron College at University of Western Ontario
- Alan Shepard, Western University, Concordia University
- Michael Tarko, Justice Institute of British Columbia
France
- Richard Descoings, Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the Chief Administrator of the National Foundation of Political Science
Great Britain
- Simon Fanshawe, Sussex University
- John Reith, Glasgow University
- Colin Riordan, Cardiff University
- Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, New Model in Technology and Engineering (NMiTE) University
- Emeli Sande, Chancellor, Sunderland University
- Dominic Shellard, De Montfort University
- Sandi Toksvig, University of Portsmouth
- Lord Waheed Alli, De Montfort University
- Jacqueline Wilson, Chancellor, Roehampton University
India
- Manabi Bandyopadhyay, Krishnaga Women's College
- Vijayraja Mallika, Saraj International
Scotland
- Jackie Kay, Chancellor, University of Salford
South Africa
United States
- Terry Allison, Indiana State University South Bend
- Nancy Barcelo, Northern New Mexico College
- Joe Bertolino, Lyndon State College
- Susan Borrego, University of Michigan Flint
- Trenda Boyum-Breen, Rasmussen College
- Sean Buffington, University of the Arts
- Mark Burstein, Lawrence University
- Laphonza Butler, California State University
- Brian Casey, Colgate University
- Christopher Cassirer, Northwestern Health Sciences University
- Ana Mari Cauce, University of Washington (Seattle)
- Marge Connelly, Longwood University
- David Wain Coon, Marin Community College
- Raymond Crossman, Adler School of Professional Psychology
- Denice Denton, University of California at Santa Cruz
- Matthew Derr, Sterling College
- Margaret Drugovich, Hartwick College
- Erika Endrijonas, Los Angeles Valley College
- Kristin Esterberg, SUNY Potsdam
- James Gandre, Manhattan School of Music
- Allan Gilmore, Wayne State University
- Ellen Granberg, President of George Washington University
- Susan Henking, Shimer College
- Ralph Hexter, Hampshire College
- Heather Hiles, Udemy, CEO and President of Calbright College
- Richard Hopper, Kennebec Valley Community College
- Michael Hoyle, McIntosh College
- Anne Huot, Keene State University
- John Balester Jenkins, Illinois Institute of Art
- Kristina Johnson, President of Ohio State University, Chancellor of State University of New York
- Theodora J. Kalikow, University of Southern Maine
- James Kelly, Menlo College
- Neal King, Antioch University
- Raynard S. Kington, Grinnell College
- Biddy Martin, Amherst College
- Carolyn Martin, Amherst College
- Les McCabe, University of Virginia
- Gail Mellow, LaGuardia Community College
- Charles Middleton, Roosevelt University
- Thomas Minar, Franklin College
- Tullise A. Murdoch, Antioch University
- Kathleen Murray, Whitman College
- Kimberly Mutcherson, Rutgers Law School
- Mel Netzhammer, Washington State University Vancouver
- Richard Ortner, Boston Conservatory
- Rebecca Ann Parker, Starr King School for the Ministry
- DeRionne Pollard, Montgomery College
- Mac Powell, Bastyr University
- Katherine Ragsdale, Episcopal Divinity School
- Chris Reber, Community College of Beaver County
- Scott Harms Rose, Institute for Clinical Social Work
- Nancy Roseman, Dickinson College
- Felice Nudelman, Antioch University
- George Santiago Jr., Briarcliffe College
- Charlita Shelton, University of the Rockies
- Donald Straney, University of Hawaii at Hilo
- Regina Stanback Stroud, Skyline College
- Dustin Swanger, Fulton-Montgomery Community College
- John J. Sygielski, Harrisburg Area Community College
- James Warwick, Theatre of the Arts
- Karen Whitney, Clarion University
See Also
- Academics Specializing in the History of the LGBTQ Community
- LGBTQ Librarians and Archivists
- Queer Theorists
- Transgender Academics
- LGBTQ Academics in Sexuality Studies
- School Teachers, Researchers and Education Staff Who Identify as LGBTQ
- LGBTQ Historians
- Teachers of Creative Writing Who Identify as LGBTQ
- Government Ministers of Education and Schools Who Are LGBTQ
- Prominent LGBTQ Academic Deans
