Championing Queer and Trans Inclusion Beyond the Campus Resource Center

Kaity Prieto is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.Nick Daily is Founder and CEO of LuvServedDaily Consulting and Training.Kristopher A. Oliveira is Director of the LGBTQ+ Equity Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

"This volume focuses on fierce and fabulous storytellers who resist cis heteronormativity and its violent impact at our institutions. These stories bridge differences and functional areas, inspiring a beautiful trans and queer future!"b.a. medina (ze/hir/hirs), 2024 - 2026 NASPA GSKC Chair"What stands out the most to me in the title of this solid edited publication is the word: Beyond. Championing Trans & Queer Inclusion Beyond the Campus Resource Center honors the great work of cultural and identity centers while also challenging the campus community to commit to providing a welcoming and supportive environment for trans and queer students. Through the sharing of strategies, programs, policy audits and personal moments, this new addition to the canon of higher education literature continues the legacy of those who have impacted students, faculty, and staff with their unwavering dedication to belonging and community on campus."Vernon A. Wall (he/him/his), Chief of Staff - LeaderShape; President - One Better World, LLC; Co-Founding Faculty - Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI); Past President: ACPA - College Student Educators International"While I believe strongly in the importance and the possibility of gender and sexuality centers, even in the best of times the work of supporting TQ populations must be cross-campus partnership. In our current political moment, centers are being shuttered and vital programs are ending. This book provides leaders with a framework for how higher education institutions can (and must!) transform TQ equity, justice, and belonging work in partnership with and beyond resource centers. This book meets the moment and provides insight in how we might dream something different with and for our communities."Jesse Beal (they/them/theirs), Director, Spectrum Center, and Adjunct Faculty, Marsal Family School of Education, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor; Director, Community & Advocacy, The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals"This book is at once both invitation and map, each chapter a route towards a utopian vision of higher education’s possible futures, reflecting thoughtful practices across the institution back to us as glimpses into a co-authored tomorrow."Zach Parker (he/him/his), 2025 ACPA Coalition for Sexuality & Gender Identity Chair

• 1. Introduction: Trans & Queer Inclusion on Campus Within and Beyond the Center 2. Starting from the Beginning: The Admissions and Enrollment Chapter 3. Queering Institutional Assessment, Evaluation, and Research in Higher Education 4. Queering Community College Cultures, Structures, and Practices 5. Access at the Intersections: (Dis)abled TQ Individuals in Higher Education 6. Mayhem in the Margins: Queering the Institutional Status Quo of Title IX Policies and Processes 7. Supporting TQ populations in ITS: Examples and Recommendations from Two Instructional Designers 8. Queering Higher Education and Student Affairs Programs: Reimagining Graduate Education for Liberation 9. Queering Philanthropy: Engaging and Celebrating TQ Alumnx and Donors 10. Who Can Come Out During a Job Search? A Response to Power Inequities in Higher Education Hiring Processes 11. Leading Out Loud: Opportunities and Tensions in the Vice President of Student Affairs Role 12. Afterword - Beyond the Institution