Antioch University Los Angeles to Host the Second Annual Meeting of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education

CULVER CITY, Calif., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Annual Meeting of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education will take place on November 21 and 22, 2010.  The meeting will be hosted by Antioch University Los Angeles (AULA) in Culver City, California.

"AULA is proud to host the second gathering of the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education this month," said Dr. Neal King, President of Antioch University Los Angeles. "Pioneers and progressives by nature and history, and long an extremely LGBTQ affirmative university, AULA is honored to host this august group of courageous men and women who walk their talk and provide needed and impactful leadership in American Higher Education in the area of LGBTQ rights, scholarship and advocacy."

The focus of this year's meeting will be to make preparations for a panel presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Council of Education (ACE) to be held March 5-8, 2011. Over the course of the two-day meeting, the presidents' presentation will address the issue of diversity and leadership in higher education.

Founded in August 2010, the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education aims to promote leadership development for current gay presidents or those who aspire to be, professional development for gay people at all levels of academe, and education and advocacy to encourage equity and diversity.

Eight presidents and four partners will gather to report out on work done by subcommittees since the first meeting in Chicago last summer in the areas of web presence, partnership with other organizations and how this new organization might govern itself going forward.

Attending the November 2010 meeting will be Ray Crossman of the Adler School of Professional Psychology (Chicago, Illinois);Charles Middleton of Roosevelt University (Chicago, Illinois); Theodora Kalikow of the University of Maine at Farmington (Farmington, Maine); Les McCabe of the Semester at Sea and Institute for Shipboard Education (Charlottesville, Virginia); Ralph Hexter of the Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts); Katherine Ragsdale of the Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Charlita Shelton of the University of the Rockies (Colorado Springs, Colorado) and the meeting host, Neal King of Antioch University Los Angeles (Culver City, California.)

The steering committee of the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education is working diligently to establish the framework for what is expected to be a larger, inclusive group of higher education administrators and industry professionals in the near future.  

SOURCE Antioch University Los Angeles