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    Climate Survey 2020

    Tulane University Law School

    June 1, 2020

    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
    a. If ‘yes,’ how and where are your efforts directed?

    Tulane actively seeks to have a diverse class, including students who identify as LGBTQ+. We promote our student organizations to prospective applicants, including Lambda, the LGBTQ+ affinity group, and the Journal of Law and Sexuality: A Review of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Law, which is the first student-edited law review in the country devoted solely to covering legal issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community. The Journal is also the official legal journal of the National LGBT Bar Association. We also make efforts to include current LGBTQ+ students at admitted student events and connect applicants to current LGBTQ+ students.

    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:

    Applicants can self-identify on an optional question in the LSAC application. We began asking enrolled students an optional self-ID question on our survey of incoming students in 2019 and will continue to collect this information going forward. In the Class of 2022, 41 out of 210 incoming JD students self-identified as LGBTQ+.

    b. If 'yes,' how many students are currently enrolled at your law school in total?:
    Answer left blank
    c. If 'yes,' how many self-identified LGBTQ+ students are currently enrolled at your law school, in total?:
    Answer left blank
    Lesbian
    Answer left blank
    Gay
    Unknown
    Bisexual/ pansexual
    Answer left blank
    Transgender / nonbinary
    Answer left blank
    Queer or gender/sexual orientation minority
    Answer left blank
    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?
    Yes
    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:

    Tulane’s EO policy includes LGBTQ+ as a category. Sexual orientation and gender identity are considered a diversity category in assessing candidates. Current faculty have made efforts to introduce prospective faculty to LGBTQ+ faculty and staff around campus.

    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?
    55
    10. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ faculty are employed by your law school in total?
    2
    Lesbian
    Zero
    Gay
    2
    Bisexual/Pansexual
    Zero
    Transgender /Nonbinary
    Zero
    Queer or gender/sexual orientation minority
    Zero
    11. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ faculty of color does your law school currently employ in total?
    1
    12. How many staff/administrators (not faculty) are employed by your law school?
    67
    13. How many self-identified LGBTQ+ staff/administrators are employed by your law school in total?
    2
    Lesbian
    1
    Gay
    1
    Bisexual/Pansexual
    Zero
    Transgender/Nonbinary
    Zero
    Queer or gender / sexual orientation minority
    Zero
    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:
    Very limited assisted reproductive benefits are covered for employees but all benefits that are provided (or not) are equal. See here for parental leave policy: https://hr.tulane.edu/leave-management/parental-leave
    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?
    Unsure
    a. If 'yes' or ‘unsure,’ please summarize or reproduce your policy here:

    Answer left blank

    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?
    Yes
    a. If 'yes,' are those student benefits available on equal terms to students in same-sex marital/domestic partnership relationships as they are to students in different-sex marital/domestic partnership relationships?
    Yes
    b. If you answered 'yes' to #17, are those student benefit plans inclusive of the specific needs of LGBTQ+ students (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 students of all genders, etc.)?
    Unsure
    c. If you answered 'yes' to #17a AND/OR if you answered 'yes' or 'unsure' to #17b, please summarize or reproduce your policy here

    Answer left blank

    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.):

    Campus Health has medical and counseling providers trained to ensure they can provide culturally and clinically competent care to LGBTQ+ patients, including transgender and non-binary patients.

    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

    There are two all gender, single stall bathrooms in the law school’s library. There is a sign on the doors, and they are advertised at orientation. They are both 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?
    Yes
    a. If "yes," please provide the language of your school's restroom use policy and details on where this policy may be found by the law school community:

    There is a University-wide policy: https://intercultural.tulane.edu/content/trans-tu

    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:

    Law & Sexuality is offered every year or every other year
    Gender Law & Public Policy is offered every year or every other year
    Academic credit may be earned for junior and senior members of the Journal of Law & Sexuality

    b. If you answered 'no, but LGBTQ+ content is included in other courses' to #22, please list course names AND approximately how many hours of course time is dedicated to LGBTQ+ content for each course:

    Fourteenth Amendment includes a module on “Sexual Orientation and Other Rights” (approximately 1/6 of reading)
    Constitutional Law includes a module on Fundamental Rights with specific class devoted to sexuality.
    Feminist Legal Theory Seminar encompasses coverage of Queer Perspectives on Feminist Theory and Intersectionality as topic areas
    Employment Discrimination includes a module on “Sexual Orientation Discrimination”
    Fair Housing has a module on “State and local initiatives: age, sexual orientation, source/amount of income” representing about half a week in the syllabus

    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:

    Every year, the Assistant Dean of Students and Student Bar Association both provide funding to enable students from two student organizations– Lambda Law and the Journal of Law and Sexuality–to either attend LGBTQ+ focused conferences or host a conference at the law school. In general, several students attend the Lavender Law Conference each year with this funding. In recent years, the Journal of Law and Sex used this funding to host a full day symposium focused on LGBTQ+ issues. Last year, Lambda used part of its funding to attend a conference in Orlando. The Assistant Dean of Students also provides funding for recruitment meetings.

    25. Does your law school have a hate/bias incident policy that faculty, staff/administrators, and students are required to follow?
    Yes
    a. If 'yes' to #25, does that process specifically identify sexual orientation AND/OR gender identity/expression as protected categories?
    Yes, both
    b. If 'yes' to #25, does the policy set out a clear hate bias/incident reporting process for faculty, staff/administrators, and students to utilize if necessary?
    Yes
    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, optional for all faculty/staff/administrators
    Yes, mandatory 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:

    There is a session at orientation when LGBTQ+ students can meet upper-class LGBTQ+ students and faculty/deans.

    The Assistant Dean for Career Development and Diversity Initiatives organizes social and professional networking events for LGBTQ+ students, beginning with a mixer with all other affinity groups sponsored by a local law firm and closing with a celebration lunch celebrating all events during the course of the year. She also meets with all affinity group leadership regularly over the year.

    Class rosters reflect a student’s preferred name and pronouns (if the student has opted in). An optional Trans 101 training was held for all faculty, staff, and students in 2019-20.

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