LGBTQ counseling to debut
Under changes to counseling program, new peer mentors will help freshmen with queer issues
The upcoming overhaul of the freshman-advising system will significantly improve the quality of the previously decentralized counseling resources available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer freshmen, according to administrators and students familiar with the program’s development.
The planned changes — which will take effect in fall 2009 — will combine the roles of ethnic counselors and freshman counselors and introduce “peer mentors” who will serve LGBTQ freshmen, as well as several other groups on campus, such as international and disabled students. But...
what a waste of university resources along with the minority counselors.