An annual event connects the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ LGBTQIA & Ally community family across incoming first-year students, current students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

Please join us Thursday, Aug. 28, from 6-7 p.m. in Lakeside 212 & 213 for the LGBTQIA & Ally New Student Welcome.
Based on last year’s success, this event outgrew the room and momentum has been building at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ regarding LGBTQIA & Ally inclusion efforts.
President Leo M. Lambert will give welcoming remarks to LGBTQIA first-year students about joining the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ community family. Hosted by the Gender & LGBTQIA Center, center director Matthew Antonio Bosch will follow up with a brief description of LGBTQIA & Ally initiatives on campus that students can get involved with, as well as updates on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ’s national CampusPRIDE Ranking on LGBTQIA Inclusion.
Food & prizes will be provided as part of this very spirited event, full of fun, hugs, laughs, mingling, and plenty of welcoming faces all across ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Come join us, meet some great people, and walk away with a prize!