APPENDIX II: INFORMATION-GATHERING ACTIVITIES BY THE TASK FORCE

Web-based data collection:

LGBTA Task Force website (advertised via an e-mail message to the UM Deans, Directors, and Department Heads, with a request to circulate the message as broadly as possible, and via advertisements in the Michigan Daily and University Record); about 150 messages received. The website was devised to preserve the anonymity of respondents. Respondents were informed that their comments might be used in our report. We have quoted respondents after correcting minor spelling and grammatical errors.

Meetings with individuals:

•William Bess, Director of the Department of Public Safety, and Captain Joe Piersante

•Sandra Cole, UM Adjunct Clinical Professor and original director of the Comprehensive Gender Services Program

•Dallas Denny, Editor-in-Chief, Transgender Tapestry: The Journal of the International Foundation for Gender Education

•Eryk Glenn, a leader of All-Us (the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender People of Color Collective, a student group)

•Royster Harper, Vice President for Student Affairs

•David M. Hasen and Douglas A. Kahn, Professors, Law School (tax policy on domestic benefits)

•James Haskins and Brian Hull, student organizers of the ad hoc Queer Athletic Council, an ad hoc group that organizes athletic events for LGBT students, faculty, and staff and their allies.

•Robert Holmes, Student Ombudsman, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs

•Mary L. Hummel and Archie Andrews, Associate Directors of Housing

• Traci D. Jarrett-Tenney, Program Associate, Health Service (HIV testing)

• Frederic MacDonald-Dennis, Director of UM LGBTA Office

• David Masson, Assistant General Counsel

•Megan Mccallister, Associate Director of Athletics

•Shannon Minter, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights (transgender law)

• Lester Monts, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (Officer Education Programs)

•Sumer Pek, UM Professor Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism

•Richard Primus, Assistant Professor, Law School (discrimination law)

•Alfreda Rooks Jordan, Administrative Director, Comprehensive Gender Services Program (CGSP)

•Teresa Satterfield, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Chair of the Equity Welfare Sportsmanship, a subcommittee for the NCAA’s review of the University, and other members of the Subcommittee

•Jeff Souva, Co-Chair, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Affairs Commission of the Michigan Student Assembly

• Anthony Walesby, Assistant Provost and Senior Director for Institutional Equity

• Patricia Warner, Associate Hospital Director

• Robert Winfield, Director of the University Health Service, and Howard Saulles, Superintendent of Optometry in the Health Service Clinic Operations

Meetings with groups:

•Queer Visibility Caucus (May and July, 2003)

•TBLG Task Force Town Hall Meeting, with a focus on climate issues for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people (October 9, 2003)

•TBLG Task Force Town Hall Meeting, with a focus on climate issues for transgender people (October 15, 2003)

•Lunch meeting with invited TBLG students of color (December 15, 2003)

Survey data:

•Visibility 2000 Survey of faculty, staff, students, and alumni for all three campuses, with particular thanks to Frederic MacDonald-Dennis, Director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual Affairs (LGBTA); Jennifer Lyle, doctoral student in the School of Social Work; and Carla Pfeffer, doctoral student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science (Sociology). A final version of this report is being prepared under the title: “From Invisibility to Inclusion: A Decade of Progress?” We received a provisional draft in advance of publication, and cite from this version.

•Gender Identity Working Group student survey; their Final Report is available at <http://www.umich.edu/~inqueery/genderreport.pdf>. The Gender Identity Working Group operated under the aegis of the Division of Student Affairs.

•“Campus Climate for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A National Perspective,” a study done by the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.