Negotiating Race and Sexual Orientation in the College Choice Process of Black Gay Males

The Role of HBCUs in Addressing the Unique Needs of LGBT Students

“…Other studies have compared the experiences of African-American students who attend HBCUs with those who attend predominantly White institutions (PWIs) (see, e.g., Fries-Britt & Turner, 2002). While this assertion may be true, today HBCUs are grappling with their reputations of oftentimes being unreceptive and hostile to their students who identify with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) communities (Gasman, Nguyen, & Kalam, 2013;Squire & Mobley, 2015;Strayhorn & Scott, 2012). Taken together, HBCU research largely asserts that HBCU communities foster environments that allow their students to successfully integrate into the academic and social contexts of undergraduate student life through significant faculty contact, opportunities for campus leadership, and collegial peer interactions.…”

“…Taken together, HBCU research largely asserts that HBCU communities foster environments that allow their students to successfully integrate into the academic and social contexts of undergraduate student life through significant faculty contact, opportunities for campus leadership, and collegial peer interactions. While this assertion may be true, today HBCUs are grappling with their reputations of oftentimes being unreceptive and hostile to their students who identify with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) communities (Gasman, Nguyen, & Kalam, 2013;Squire & Mobley, 2015;Strayhorn & Scott, 2012).…”

Improving the Campus Climate for LGBTQ Students Using the Campus Pride Index

“…The college choice process for LGBTQ students can be difficult. First, there are few resources to guide LGBTQ high school students through the college choice process (Squire & Mobley, ). With regard to college and university admissions applications, LGBTQ students may be unsure about whether to disclose their sexual and/or gender identity, fearing that they may experience discrimination from the institution as a result, such as being denied admission or financial aid.…”

“…LGBTQ students are an important component of institutional diversity, yet these students have often been ignored in diversity‐oriented admissions practices (Einhaus, Viento, & Croteau, ). Campus administrators should seek to further understand the college choice process for LGBTQ students in order to include them directly in recruitment efforts and to ultimately diversify student enrollment (Squire & Mobley, ).…”

Campus Adaptations of Engineering Undergraduates by Gender

“…Much more evidently, locality of the institute impacts academic achievement of students (Raju, Chitttoor, & Pradesh, 2013). Off recent, academic website impression and its navigation by gender (Ramakrishnan, Prybutok, & Peak, 2014) has its aura on choice of institution by gender (Squire & Mobley, 2014) playing its major stroke of impact on college experiences and there on towards degree completion among four year institutions (Gayles & Ampaw, 2014). Lastly, Off-campus house too serve as signs of cultural texts on gender and sexuality (Weinzimmer & Twill, 2015) with gender, distance from home,and duration of stay at dormitory significantly impacting students attachment to place or institution(M. Xu, de Bakker, Strijker, & Wu, 2015) The study proposes the following research hypothesis: H0 :-Campus adaptations of academic, social, physical -psychological and institutional adaptations did not differ by gender among undergraduate students .…”