GVSU Adds Colette Beighley as Administrator of LGBT Resource Center
ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP -- After a gay student was spat on two years ago, Grand Valley State University administrators vowed to make gay, lesbian and transgender students feel welcome on campus.
This fall, the university opened its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center where students, and those who want to support them, can spend time in an environment where they feel comfortable and safe.
Come January, the center also will have a full-time administrator to help coordinate its programs, which have touched about 2,000 people this year. "For many years, LGBT students have not felt that they were treated equally," said GVSU professor Milt Ford, the center's director.
He recently hired Colette Beighley to become its full-time presence. Read more.
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