In new survey, KU faculty says the university is homophobic
A survey released Friday regarding faculties at Kansas’ seven state universities reveals that University of Kansas professors believe homophobia is commonplace on campus. As one KU respondent put it, “Anti-GLBT discrimination is the norm in the unit and school levels quite often.”
The Kansas Conference of the American Association of University Professors sent the survey to faculties at Kansas State University, the University of Kansas, Fort Hays State, Emporia State, the KU School of Medicine, Pittsburg State and Wichita State. It asked more than 4,000 faculty members at those schools to rate their institutions report-card style – from A to F – on 39 statements across a variety of topics of university governance. The results show that KU’s employees believe the university does a poor job of including faculty in university governance. More glaring than that were KU’s terrible marks for fostering inclusion of GLBT faculty members. You can read the survey results here.
“University [is] OK,” a KU respondent wrote. “[The] school is fundamentally homophobic.”
(Pick up next week’s issue of The Pitch for a longer story about the survey results and perceived homophobia at KU.)
