The United States Student Association is committed to addressing the specific barriers that queer students face in higher education. These barriers include financial instability, unsafe living conditions, homophobic and transphobic classmates and professors, institutionalized heterosexism, and an overall lack of university support. The limited resources for LGBT student organizations and retention centers, the lack of sufficient responses to repeated incidents of harassment and violence against LGBT students, and insufficient training for residence hall staff and key administrators limit LGBT students’ access to higher education and threaten their ability to earn a degree.

USSA provides support to queer students by serving as a vehicle to link LGBT organizations on campuses with each other and with local and national queer organizations.  USSA also distributes educational and organizational materials on issues of recruitment/retention and educational access, provides networking opportunities, run trainings, and offers other forms of technical assistance to students.

LGBT Factsheets:

• LGBT Barriers to Higher Education
• Trans Student Access
• Queer-Inclusive Nondiscrimination Policy
• Funding LGBT Student Groups
• Transgender Inclusion Guide

For more information contact
SOCCDP
phone: (202) 640-6570
email: cdp@usstudents.org