LGBTQ+@Barnard

LGBTQ+@Banard is an online hub of resources for navigating Barnard as a LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual+) community members.

 Request a chosen name change through the Registrar's Office.

The Registrar's Office manages student records where a students, faculty, and staff can register their chosen name. To start the process, please fill out this form for the Registrar's Office. Once your chosen name has been updated with the registrar, most other campus offices will receive this information. 

Please note that Barnard is in the process of universally updating the language from “preferred name” to “chosen name.”

All Barnard community members and visitors are entitled to use facilities that best align with their gender identity.

Housing accommodation request process: If you have a specific housing accommodation need, please contact housing@barnard.edu as soon as possible upon submitting your housing materials to discuss your request and possible options.
 

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Barnard College is committed to providing identity-affirming, on-campus medical support and resources for LGBTQ+ students.

Furman Counseling Center provides many services, including free short-term confidential counseling, referrals to transgender-identified or transgender-affirming providers on your insurance panel for long-term treatment, and therapy letters when needed for gender-affirming medical treatments or surgeries. When reaching out, you may request to speak with a clinician within the queer and/or trans community if desired.

• The LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group 

  • An Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Barnard is a voluntary, employee-led group with the purpose of fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the Barnard community and surrounding community, supporting professional development for ERG participants, and serving as a resource to its participants and Barnard College. Participation in ERG meetings and events are open to all currently employed Barnard staff (including union staff) and faculty. Please email dei@barnard.edu if you have any questions/suggestions or if you would like to be added to a monthly ERG calendar invite.

• Diversity & Professional Development Programs

  • Programs for LGBTQ+ and other diverse faculty members at Barnard include mentoring programs, inclusive pedagogy workshops, research talks, orientations, seminars, and more!

• LGBTQ+ Health Insurance Benefits

  • Summary from Human Resources

  • Questions? Contact

    • Kristal Gonzalez

      Director, Benefits & Employee Wellbeing

      Office of Human Resources

      t: 929-441-6568

      kgonzale@barnard.ed

Center for Engaged Pedagogy Classroom Guide to Gender Inclusivity

• Members of the faculty who would like a one-on-one consultation on this topic are also encouraged to make an appointment with Alex Pittman, associate director of the Center. 

NameCoach

• NameCoach is a tool in Canvas that allows students and faculty to record their name pronunciations and pronouns. This tool is now default-enabled in the left-hand navigation bar in all Barnard courses, and appears as “Name and Pronoun.” See this guide for using NameCoach, and feel free to email courseworks@barnard.edu with questions.

Consortium for Higher Education: Best Practices for Supporting Trans Students

Barnard College applications are open to any and every prospective student who lives and identifies as a woman at the time of application. This policy includes transgender women and intersex women as well as cisgender women and excludes people assigned female at birth that now identify as men or outside of the gender binary. For the full text of this policy, announced in 2015, please visit Admissions. 

Once a student gains admission to Barnard College, they can remain a Barnard student regardless of future changes in gender identity. Barnard students of all gender identities have access to support and resources (academic, medical, and otherwise) that support their identity. Barnard College also provides support to those who wish to transfer out of Barnard (as a women's college) due to changes in gender identity. 

Sex, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, and sexual orientation are all protected categories under New York State law and sex is protected through federal law. Barnard’s policy provides additional protections to many categories:

Barnard College is committed to providing an environment free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. As such, Barnard College adheres to all federal and state civil rights laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination in institutions of higher education. Barnard does not discriminate against any employee, applicant for employment, student, or applicant for admission on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity or expression, or any other protected category under applicable local, state, or federal law, including protections for those opposing discrimination or participating in any grievance process on campus, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or other human rights agencies. In addition, Barnard College does not discriminate on the basis of alienage or citizenship status, marital partnership status, military status, arrest or conviction record, predisposing genetic characteristics, caregiver status, or victim status for the following offenses: domestic violence, stalking, and/or sex offense, in its employment practices.

The full text of Barnard's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment can be found here. 

Barnard students and employees are encouraged to report incidents of bias and harassment on the basis of religious identity. The Office of Nondiscrimination and Title IX can provide interim measures for affected students and employees including safety measures, schedule adjustments, and various forms of counseling and performs investigations into incidents when needed. 

Click here to report an incident of discrimination or harassment.