Meetings Archives - LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education

Annual Members Meeting

By Jim Berg / October 3, 2023

Four nominated for open board positions

The Annual Meeting of the LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education will take place in New Haven, CT, on October 19, 2023 at 4:30 pm. Members will have the opportunity to hear about the activities of the organization, and vote on a slate of candidates for positions on the Board of Directors. The meeting will also include an interactive session to focus on how we best meet the needs, aspirations and expectations of our members. We will co-create and explore design principles and priorities that ideally situate LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education to have a meaningful impact on our mission, “...advancing effective leadership in the realm of post-secondary education, supports professional development of LGBTQ leaders in that sector, and provides education and advocacy regarding LGBTQ issues within the global academy and for the public at large.”

The Governance and Nominations Committee has forwarded a slate of candidates for open board seats. The candidates are:

Lori W. Ciccomascolo, Associate Vice President, Student Services, University of Rhode Island
Kenro Kusume, Dean of Natural Sciences, Arizona State University
Nancy P. Kropf, Professor and former Senior Vice President, Georgia State University
Christina Royal, President (ret.), Holyoke Community College

The Annual Meeting is scheduled as the final session of the Leadership Institute and will be held in the Adanti Student Center at Southern Connecticut State University. Registered participants at the Leadership Institute are invited to attend and participate, but only members of the association (as recorded on October 12, 2023) will be allowed to vote. To join, click here.

Members may be Individual Members, at the $100 annual rate, or they may be designees of Institutional Members. Members need not be registered for the Leadership Institute to attend, but attendance in person (or by proxy) is required to vote.

Announcing LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education

By Jim Berg / April 3, 2023

The LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education is now the LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education. The nonprofit organization, incorporated in 2012 by a group of out LGBTQ college and university presidents, adopted a new mission to go along with its new name. The changes were approved at a meeting of the organization’s membership on March 27, 2023 in Chicago.

The mission of the new organization is “to advance effective leadership, create support networks and advocate for LGBTQ issues in the post-secondary academic sector.”

“The new name and mission reflect the broader goals of the organization,” said Richard Helldobler, newly-elected President of the LGBTQ Leaders and President of William Paterson University. “Our membership is now reflective of many levels of LGBTQ leadership, and we are committed to celebrating, advancing and increasing LGBTQ leadership across American higher education.”

Other officers elected are: Erika Endrijonas, Pasadena City College, Past-President; Kristin Esterberg, University of Washington, Bothell, President-Elect; Daniel Lopez, Harold Washington College, Secretary; Dick Senese, Capella University, Treasurer. A full list of board members is available here.

The LGBTQ Leadership Institute, the organization’s marquee event, is hosted by and will take place at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven on October 18 and 19th, 2023. For more information, see the Events page.

LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education began in 2010 as a networking group of out LGBTQ presidents and chancellors. The organization incorporated in 2012 as LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education. Membership is open to leaders at all levels of responsibility at colleges and universities, and associated higher education organizations, in the United States.

Special Membership Meeting

By Media and Communication Assistant / January 16, 2023

LGBTQ Presidents and Leaders in Higher Education will hold an important in person meeting of the membership on March 27 at 10:00 (CST) in Chicago.

The purpose of this meeting is to review and consider changes to the Association’s bylaws. One of the changes will allow bylaws to be adopted in a virtual meeting. The current bylaws do not allow for that. You will have the option to attend the meeting via a Zoom webinar, but only members attending in person will be allowed to vote on the bylaws changes.

NOTE: Once the bylaws have been adopted, even members attending remotely will be able to vote on other actions that day, including a slate of candidates to the board who will serve until the next Annual Meeting (in October 2023).

There will be a free webinar to discuss the bylaws changes and the plans we have for the Association if those changes are adopted. The webinar will be held on Zoom on March 7 at 3:00 (Eastern), Noon (Pacific). That event was recorded: see the recording here. Enter passcode: v0Sm+FkU.

Our new website has space set aside for members-only content. To access the members area, all you need to do is claim your account: click on “log in” at the top of the page. Enter the email address associated with your membership and click “forgot password” to reset your password.