University-Wide Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Issues Records
UA.3.22.1

Summary Information

Repository
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Title
University-Wide Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Issues records
ID
UA.3.22.1
Date [inclusive]
1969-1994
Extent
3.0 Cubic feet
Language
English

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan."

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Historical Note

The University-Wide Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Issues was created as a result of the MSU IDEA. The MSU IDEA was developed to achieve more diversity at Michigan State University. Concerned faculty met with Provost David Scott in February of 1990 to discuss the lesbian and gay aspects of diversity. As a result, two consultants from Rutgers University were brought in to assess the needs of gays and lesbians at MSU. In addition, the task force was created to further address the issues.

The first meeting of the task force was held on May 21, 1991. The task force gathered information by surveys sent out campus-wide hoping to get responses from lesbian, bisexual and gay faculty, staff, and students. They also held focus groups to determine the attitudes held by the university community about lesbians, bisexuals, and gays. The survey was conducted by the Center for Survey Research in the MSU Social Science Research Bureau.

The task force printed the results of their findings and recommendations in the three volume report, Moving Forward: Lesbians and Gay Men at Michigan State University, in the fall of 1992.

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Scope and Contents note

The records of the University-Wide Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Issues consist of consists five series: Final Report, Focus Group and Surveys, Working Papers, Articles and Reference Materials, and Work Groups and Committees.

The Final Reports series consists of volumes one, two and three of the report. Volume I contains a history of the task force, recommendations, history of lesbians and gays at Michigan State University, and hopes for the future. Volume II consists of transcripts of forums, responses to open-ended questions from the survey, and codebooks which give statistical information used to analyze the surveys. In addition, there are transcripts of forums from Lesbian and Gay focus groups. This series retains the original order of the report.

The Focus Groups and Surveys series contains transcripts from focus groups not included in the final report. They are excerpts taken from the transcriptions of the focus groups and compiled by subject. There is also a report summarizing the process of the survey and the focus groups. The series contains blank surveys that were handed out to faculty staff and students as well as the data from the questionnaires.

The Working Papers series is comprised of documents relating to the general business of the Task Force and work groups. It contains executive meeting minutes, memos, notes, Gay and Lesbian Faculty group papers, and correspondence. Also included are documents about recommendations to the University including those to the Military Education Advisory Committee about ROTC issues.

The Articles and Reference Materials series consists of articles from newspapers and magazines, including local sources, about issues relevant to the Task Force. The reference materials consist of policies from other universities, cities, and national groups on topics such as domestic partnership and housing.

The Work Groups and Committees series consist of items generated by the specific work groups and the Publicity Subcommittee which was a part of the task force. Included are memos, correspondence, and notes.

Additional materials: A CD-rom with additional electronic versions of the task force's final report is contained in a small box within Box 1844. Included are final reports produced by individual work groups.

The small box also contains a tape recording of the Minority Issues forum.

Audio tapes of interviews may not be reproduced and identifying names should not be published.

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Arrangement

Arranged into five series: 1. Final Report. 2. Focus Group and Surveys. 3. Working Papers. 4. Articles and Reference Materials. 5. Work Groups and Committees.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections December 2003

Conrad Hall
888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Legal Status note

Copyright: Michigan State University. Property Rights: Michigan State University.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University. Audio tapes of interviews may not be reproduced and identifying names should not be published.

Custodial History

Transferred from Provosts Office, 2002-01-31. Transferred from MSU Libraries Special Collections, 2003-10-10.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The archives of the University-Wide Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Issues (Michigan State University) was organized, conserved, and inventoried with funds provided by the American Radicalism Collection Endowment fund in honor & memory of Dr. Beth J. Shapiro (2006). (MSU Libraries)

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Michigan State University. Libraries. Special Collections Division.
  • Michigan State University. Staff.
  • Michigan State University. Students.

Genre(s)

  • Brochures
  • Letters (correspondence)
  • Reports
  • Sound recordings

Subject(s)

  • Gay college students -- Michigan -- East Lansing
  • Gay rights
  • Gay teachers -- Michigan -- East Lansing
  • Gays -- Political activity
  • Lesbian college students -- Michigan -- East Lansing
  • Lesbian teachers -- Michigan -- East Lansing
  • Lesbians -- Political activity

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Collection Inventory

Final Report 1992 

Scope and Contents note

Box Folder

Report. Volume I 

1842
Box Folder

Part I 

1842 1

Part II 

1842 2

Report. Volume II 

1842 3

Report. Volume III 

1842
Box Folder

Student Codebook 

1842 4-5

Student Open-end Responses 

1842 6

Faculty Codebook 

1842 7

Faculty Open-end Responses 

1842 8

Staff Codebook 

1842 9

Staff Open-end Responses 

1842 10

African-American Group 

1842 11

AP Group 

1842 12

Brody Group 

1842 13

CTU Group 

1842 14

Department of Public Safety Group 

1842 15

Female Athletes Group 

1842 16

Fraternities Group 

1842 17

Hard Sciences Group 

1842 18

Soft Sciences Group 

1842 19

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Focus Groups and Surveys 

Box Folder

Focus Groups 

1842
Box Folder

Affirmative Action for Lesbian/Bi/Gay People 

1842 20

Domestic Partner Benefits 

1842 21

Inclusion of Lesbian/Bi/Gay Material in the Curriculum 

1842 22

Minority Issues Regarding Lesbians/Bi/Gays 

1842 23

MSU Climate for Lesbian/Bi/Gay People 

1842 24

Special Services for Lesbian/Bi/Gay People 

1842 25

Working and Attending Class with Lesbian/Bi/Gay People 

1842 26

Survey and Data Breakdown 

1842
Box Folder

Faculty 

1842 27

Staff 

1842 28

Student 

1842 29

Report to the Task Force on Gay and Lesbian Issues: Summary of Focus Groups 

1842 30

Survey 

1842
Box Folder

Faculty Results 

1842 31

Staff Results 

1842 32

Student Results 

1842 33

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Working Papers 1980-1994, undated 

Box Folder

Activity logs, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1842 34

Agendas and Minutes, 1991-1992 

1842 35

Anti-Discrimination Judicial Board 

1842
Box Folder

 1990-1992 

1842 36

 1993, n.d. 

1842 37

Brochure, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1842 38

Conference- Public, Ethical, and Psychological Aspects of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, 1986 

1842 39

Conference, 1992 

1842 40

Correspondence, 1989-1992, n.d. 

1842 41-42

Correspondence, Email, 1991-1992 

1842 43

Diversity Survey, Faculty and Academic Staff, n.d. 

1842 44

Executive Committee Meetings 

1842
Box Folder

for March, April May 1991 

1842 45

for June 5 and June 26, 1991 

1842 46

for July 17, 1991 

1842 47

for September 4, 1991 

1842 48

for October 1991 

1842 49

for November, December 1991, January, June 1992 

1842 50

Financial, 1991-1993, n.d. 

1842 51

First Meeting- May 21, 1991 

1842 52

Flyers, 1991-1992 

1842 53

Forum November 9, 1991 

1842 57

Gay and Lesbian Faculty Group, 1990-1994 

1842 54
Box Folder

Agendas, 1990-1992, 1993 

1842 55

Provost Meetings, 1991-1993, n.d. 

1842 56

Gay and Lesbian Studies Group. Articles, 1980, 1987-1990, n.d. 

1843 1
Box Folder

Memos, 1989-1990, n.d. 

1843 2

Implementation Advisory Group, 1993 

1843 3

Meeting Schedules, 1992 

1843 4

Membership lists and signature sheets, 

1843 5

Memos, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1843 6-7

MSU IDEA, 1985, 1989-1991, n.d. 

1843 8

Notes, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1843 9

Progress reports, 1990-1992 

1843 10

Statement to President DiBaggio Regarding the Welfare of Lesbian and Gay Members of the University Community, 1989 

1843 11

Stein, Terry. Notes, 1990-1992, n.d. 

1843 12

Survey 

1843
Box Folder

Focus Groups, 1991, n.d. 

1843 13

Survey Data Collection Subcommittee, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1843 14

Recommendations, 1991 

1843 15

Task Force Consultant Visit on Dec. 12-14, 1990, 1990-1991 

1843 16

Task Force Recommendations, 1992-1994, n.d. 

1843 17

Task Force Recommendations. Executive Committee of Academic Council (ECAC), 1993 

1843 18

Task Force Recommendations. Military Education Advisory Committee (MEAC), 1991, 1993-1994 

1843 19

Task Force Recommendations. Vice Presidential Administrative Group, 1993 

1843 20

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Articles and Reference Materials 1969-1993, n.d. 

Box Folder

Articles 

1843
Box Folder

Curriculum, 1990-1991 

1843 21

Domestic Partnership, 1986-1991, n.d. 

1843 22

General, 1988, 1990-1991, n.d. 

1843 23

Groups and Persons in the News, 1990-1991, n..d. 

1843 24

Hate Code/Speech, 1989, 1991, n.d. 

1843 25

Heterosexism/Homophobia, 1989-1992, n.d. 

1843 26

Homosexuality, 1977, 1988-1989, n.d. 

1843 27

Military, 1988-1991, n.d. 

1843 28

MSU- Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1843 29

MSU- General, 1970, 1990-1992, n.d. 

1843 30

MSU- John Nowak/ Delta Sigma Phi, 1982, n.d. 

1843 31

MSU- Wilson Protest, 1969 

1843 32

Rutgers- Gay Rights, 1988-1989, n.d. 

1843 33

Reference 

1843
Box Folder

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLUF) Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1988-1992, n.d. 

1843 34-35

A Room of Our Own bookstore 1991 

1843 36

City College of San Francisco, 1980, 1989 

1843 37

City of Berkeley, 1987 

1843 38

City of East Lansing, 1991 

1843 39

Columbia University, 1990 

1843 40

Department of Civil Rights, 1977 

1844 1

Gay and Lesbian Military Freedom Project, 1987, 1989-1990, n.d. 

1844 2

Graff, Leonard- Sexual Orientation Challenge, 1973 

1844 3

Lansing Association for Human Rights Newsletter, 1990-1993 

1844 4

MIT, 1990 

1844 5

MSU Antidiscrimination Policy, 1977 

1844 6

MSU Brookover Committee, 1969-1979 

1844 7

MSU ROTC, 1989, 1991-1992 

1844 8

National Committee for Sexual Civil Liberties 12th Annual Conference, May 23, 1981 

1844 9

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), 1989-1990, n.d. 

1844 10
Box Folder

Campus Project, 1988-1991, n.d. 

1844 11

Military, 1991, n.d. 

1844 12

National Gay Rights Advocates, 1991 

1844 13

"Out on Campus" Newsletters, 1991 

1844 14

Partners magazine, 1992 

1844 15

Resources, 1990-1991, n.d. 

1844 16

Rutgers- "In Every Classroom," 1989 

1844 17

Santa Cruz, 1987 

1844 18

Stanford, 1988-1989, n.d. 

1844 19

State of/University of Illinois, 1991-1992 

1844 20

State University of New York, 1991 

1844 21

University of Massachusetts- Amherst, 1985 

1844 22

University of Michigan, 1991, n.d. 

1844 23

University of Oregon Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Concerns, 1990 

1844 24

University of Pennsylvania, n.d. 

1844 25

University of Wisconsin, 1980 

1844 26

Vassar College, 1989 

1844 27

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Work Groups and Committees 1991-1992, n.d. 

Box Folder

Publicity Committee, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1844 28

Work Groups 

1844
Box Folder

Climate, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1844 29

Curriculum, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1844 30

Exclusion, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1844 31

Multicultural Issues, 1991-1992 

1844 32

Policies and Benefits, 1991 

1844 33

Special Concerns of Lesbians, 1991 

1844 34

Staff Concerns, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1844 35

Student Concerns, 1991-1992, n.d. 

1844 36

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Additional Materials 

Scope and Contents note

Additional materials in small box in Box 1844.

Box

Audio Material- Forum on minority issues cassette tape 

1844

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Electronic Material 

Scope and Contents note

Additional materials in small box in Box 1844.

The material is contained on cd-rom. The first term is the folder title, and the subsequent terms are files with description after.

...

Box
1844

Conference 

A&T- conference activity log 

CONFEREN- conference follow up report 

Vol. I (of the final report) 

01FRONT- title page, authors and introduction of the final report 

02CHAPT1 - 07CHAPT6- chapters 1 through 6 of the final report 

08APXA- Appendix A- Charge tot he University-Wide Task Force 

09APXB1- Appendix B, Part 1: Task Force Recommendations Cross Reference to Work Group Recommendations 

10APXB2- Appendix B, Part 2: Recommendations of University-Wide Task Force Work Groups 

11APXC- Appendix C: Statement on Bisexuality by One Member of the Executive Committee of the University-Wide Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Issues 

12APXD- Appendix D: Task Force Publicity 

References 

Vol. II (of the final report) 

CLIMATE- final report of the climate work group 

CURRICUL- Curriculum Work Group Report 

CURRICULapx- Curriculum Work Group Report appendix 

EXCLUSIO- Final Report Exclusion Work Group 

LESBIAN- Special Concerns of Lesbians Work Group Report 

MULTICUL- Report on Multicultural Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Issues Compiles by the Multicultural Issues Work Group 

POLICIES- Policies and Benefits work group report 

POLICIESREC- Policies and Benefits Work Group Recommendations 

ROTCTWO- Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation ROTC 

Staff- Staff Concerns and Employment Issues, Work Group Report 

STAFFREC- Staff Concerns and Employment Issues Work Group Recommendations 

STUDENT- Student Concerns work group report 

Volume III (of the final report) 

BIBLIOGR- Moving Forward Lesbians and Gay Men at Michigan State University: A Selected Reference List on Lesbian and Gay Life 

FORUMS- Articles Published About the Work of the Task Force (cover page only) and Summary Reports of Public Forums 

INCIDENT- Incidents of Homophobia Reported at Michigan State University 

INTRO- Survey and Focus Group Data 

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"Moving Forward: Lesbians and Gay Men at Michigan State University," volume I, A Report of the University-Wide Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Issues 1992 

Box Folder

Flyers 1999, 2002, Undated 

1844 38

Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Ally College Conference Flyers 2002 

1844 39

"Multicultural Development: Lesbian-Bi-Gay and Transgender Concerns" Electronic Newsletter February 12, 2002 

1844 40