/news-archive/tag/lgbt/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:48:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/03/14/book-chapter-promoting-friendship-transgender-students/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:48:10 +0000 /news/?p=73692 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professor publishes book chapter promoting friendship for transgender students]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has published a book chapter that will help elementary education students learn how to be allies to transgender students. 聽 The chapter, 鈥�Trans*Forming the Middle Level English Language Arts Classroom: Reading George to Promote Ally-ship,” was published by Rowman & Littlefield in the 2018 book 鈥淨ueer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum.鈥� Dr. Judith Hayn, professor of teacher education, was assisted in her research by 15 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock elementary education students who took the ELEM 4301: Integrated Literacy and Language II class during the fall 2017 semester. The students include Olivia Bing, Misty Carmona, Lindsay Connell, Keeley Dodson, Molly Faircloth, Christin Hall, Robert Jones, Erin Long, Sarah McPherson, Whitney Patton, Hannah Sanders, Cassy Siegler, Megan Tarvin, Lori Terry, Hollyn Townsend, Jonalyn Williams, Kaitlin Wright, and Kathleen Yeary. The book chapter gives lesson plans on how elementary education teachers can teach lessons on friendship and tolerance through the book 鈥� to fourth- and fifth-grade students. The book is about a transgender student in the fourth grade who wants to play the role of Charlotte in the class production of 鈥淐harlotte鈥檚 Web,鈥� but George鈥檚 teacher says she cannot try out for the part because she鈥檚 a boy. 鈥淭his is the first book written by a transgender author about a transgender student in middle school,鈥� Hayn said. 鈥淔or me, it鈥檚 a story of friendship. George has a friend who becomes her best friend ever by backing George鈥檚 attempt to play Charlotte in the school play. This book teaches young students how to be open, accepting, and tolerant.鈥� Having the students鈥� help on her book chapter was a serendipitous turn of events. Hayn, who does not teach elementary education, was not supposed to be teaching the class. She volunteered to substitute for a fellow professor who was out for the semester due to an injury. 鈥淭his was a good experience for young teachers who are going to teach in K-6 classes,鈥� Hayn said. 鈥淚 asked them if they could help me write a book chapter on how to use this book for fourth- and fifth-grade students. They read the book, and they came up with lesson plans, classroom activities, and all the sources the teachers need. The only horrible part is that the students didn鈥檛 get to see the book chapter because they have already graduated, but I thank them at the end of the article.鈥� The students came up with chapter summaries, discussion questions, reading comprehension quizzes, vocabulary activities, journal assignments, author studies, and other classroom activities to help teachers instruct their students on the book. 鈥淚 was quite pleased with the maturity of their work,鈥� Hayn said. 鈥淏y the end of the semester, the students were absolutely ready to go into any classroom with any book, controversial or not, and know how to teach a book to their students.鈥� ]]> /news-archive/2018/06/13/cory-bates-student-public-service-award/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:08:16 +0000 /news/?p=70748 ... Bates named winner of Bowen Law School鈥檚 Student Public Service Award]]> William H. Bowen School of Law has recognized recent Bowen graduate Cory Lee Bates as the recipient of the 2018 Student Public Service Award.聽 Every year at commencement, the faculty, staff, and students at Bowen Law School select one of its graduating students who exemplifies the law school鈥檚 core value of public service to receive the award. Bates will also receive $1,000 to go toward the cost of a course to prepare him to take the bar exam. During his third year of law school, Bates has served as president of the OUTLaw Legal Society and helped organize a weeklong program of fundraising, advocacy speakers, and community building. The activities consisted of raising money for a student scholarship, hosting the first Legal Research Drive at Bowen, and bringing Heather Fann, a family law attorney in Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss her work on an LGBT civil rights case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bates is passionate about helping Bowen鈥檚 student organizations. He helped the Student Bar Association generate the law school鈥檚 first food pantry, mentored a first-year law student as a member of Delta Theta Phi, and designed the program for the Black Law Students Association鈥檚 fundraising banquet. His classmates and teachers at Bowen have described Bates鈥� commitment to the community, his ceaseless advocacy for those who have been overlooked, and his obvious passion for every project he takes on. Outside of Bowen, Bates has helped grow and organize HIV prevention awareness through the HIV Planning Group of Arkansas as well as serving as the secretary and student representative of Q-Law Arkansas, the state鈥檚 first LGBT organization for attorneys. In the upper right photo,聽John DiPippa, interim dean of the Bowen School of Law, presents Cory Bates with the 2018 Student Public Service Award during the commencement ceremony on May 12.]]> /news-archive/2018/03/02/lgbtq-conference/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:35:11 +0000 /news/?p=69639 ... Conference will raise awareness of suicide in LGBTQ community]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host a conference to raise awareness about the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) community and suicide risk and prevention on Saturday, March 10.聽 The will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Hall. The conference includes plenary and breakout sessions that feature national experts on LGBTQ+ mental health and suicide risk and will be focused on making mental health, suicide prevention, and education an LGBTQ community priority. The featured speaker is Kimberly Shappley, a registered nurse, international board-certified lactation consultant, ordained minister, and mother of a transgender daughter who has turned Shappley into an accidental advocate. Her family鈥檚 story has appeared on The TODAY Show, Vice HBO, Good Housekeeping, Huffington Post, and several national women鈥檚 magazines. Working with Equality Texas as their faith outreach coordinator, Kimberly is a nationally recognized sought-after speaker as a southern conservative Christian parent of a transgender child. Additional presenters include:

• 听听听听听Dr. John Blosnich, 鈥淨uestions of Life and Death: Seeking answers about suicide deaths among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.鈥� Blosnich is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, a research assistant professor with the West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center, and a research health scientist with the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System.
• 听听听听听Dr. Stephen Russell, 鈥淯nderstanding and Preventing Suicide in LGBT+ Communities.鈥� He is the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies adolescent development with an emphasis on adolescent sexuality, LGBT youth, and parent-adolescent relationships.
• 听听听听听Dr. Jody Herman, 鈥淪uicide Risk and Prevention Among Transgender People.鈥� She is a scholar of public policy at the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. Her work has included research on the fiscal impacts of discrimination against transgender people, employer-provided health benefits coverage for gender transition, the development of trans-inclusive questions for population-based surveys, and suicide among transgender people.

The conference is open to members of the public. The cost to attend is $20 for students and $50 for general admission. For more information, contact Tabitha Childers at 870-834-6777 or tabitha.afsp.ar@gmail.com.]]> /news-archive/2017/07/05/washington-alumni/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:08:10 +0000 /news/?p=67397 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little to host event for Washington, D.C. alumni]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Alumni Association will host its fourth annual party for all 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock alumni in the Washington, D.C., area Thursday, July 27. The celebration will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at Beacon Bar and Grill, 1615 Rhode Island Ave. N.W. In addition, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock alumni Jeff Dutton and Bryan Goodman will host a reception from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 28, at Dutton鈥檚 home in Washington, D.C. 聽 The reception will raise money for the Stonewall Endowed Scholarship fund, which provides scholarships for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students who raise awareness for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. Since 2010, seven students have received scholarships totaling $13,000. 聽 Those interested in attending either event should contact Kristi Smith, senior director of development, at klsmith4@ualr.edu or 501.569.8739. ]]>