LIFE
LGBTQ Mentoring Program
This program pairs interested LGBTQ undergraduates with a LGBTQ faculty or staff mentor. The mentor is a sympathetic queer adult who will do what they can to be supportive. Mentors act as sounding board as students navigate their way through a (mostly) straight world. They can help as you address issues such as whether or not to come out on a resume or during a job search or graduate or professional school applications. Our hope is that being able to interact with a LGBTQ faculty or staff member will give students more of a sense of community.
Mentors meet with the students they are mentoring quarterly for lunch, dinner, or coffee. In addition to that, we sponsor a quarterly get together (such as a dinner) and various outings for all mentors and mentees participating in the program.
If you're interested in joining our mentoring program, please fill out this brief application form.
Matt helps prepare for the annual LCCP benefit.
Austin, Brad, and Chris at a Mentoring Program dinner.
This year, in addition to our usual activities, the U of C LGBTQ Mentoring Program participated in a volunteer project for the Lesbian Community Cancer Project, and enjoyed a lot of dinners together.We also attended the "About Face Theater" production of Pulp. We also plan to attend a Cubs game and programs at the Chicago Historical Society on queer Chicago history.
If you are interested, please e-mail Kathy Forde for an application.
Read the press coverage on the LGBTQ Mentoring Program:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0202/
campus-news/report-out.html
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020110/lgbtq.shtml
LCCP BENEFIT
Click here for an account of the 2005 LCCP Benefit
Click here for an account of the 2004 LCCP Benefit
