Terrell L Strayhorn
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn is Professor of Education and Psychology at Virginia Union University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). He leads the “Belonging Matters” blog at Psychology Today and serves as PI for The Belonging Lab, a grant-funded innovation cluster.
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Address: PO BOX 30212, HOUSTON, TX 77249
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information is needed about the experiences of GLBQ
college students of color to create conditions that
engender their success. Beyond Coming Out responds to
this clarion call, drawing on nearly 8 years of data from 50
participants at over 20 public and private universities in the
United States.
This 52-page report includes never-before published
results about how GLBQ college students of color identify,
how they deploy sexual identity labels and the meaning
they make of such processes, as well as the strategies they
utilize when disclosing their sexual identity to others. For
instance, for our first finding “What’s a Label, Anyway?”
we describe how GLBQ students sort through a number
of factors when adopting, adapting, or resisting sexual
identity labels. Our analysis reveals that “coming out” for
GLBQ students of color involves a far more complicated,
non-linear decision-making process than traditional
development models suggest.
Consistent with CHEE’s core goal of generating distinctive
research contributions, the report also presents a new
typology that has implications for research and practice, as
well as insights about online identity disclosure behaviors
that could lead to development of new or revision of
existing theory. The report closes with a comprehensive
set of recommendations for campus administrators, faculty,
policymakers, GLBQ students and allies, as well as clergy
and religious leaders. Included in the Appendix is a list
scholarly publications generated by the authors of the
report that readers are encouraged to reference, as well as
a list of resources.
This report goes way Beyond Coming Out to identifying
specific steps for Leaning In for understanding, Moving
Out of our own way, Stepping In to someone else’s shoes,
and Taking Action to improve the lives of GLBQ youth and
campus experiences of GLBQ college students of color
everywhere.
Resumen: El presente estudio estimó la influencia de experiencias sociales y académicas en el sentido de pertenencia de estudiantes latinas/os; se controlaron las diferencias étni-cas, usando técnicas de análisis jerárquico con un diseño de nido. Además los resultados se compararon entre estudiantes latinas/os con su contraparte de estudiantes blancos. Los hallazgos revelan que las calificaciones, el tiempo usado en estudiar, y las relaciones con compañeros diversos afectan el sentido de pertenencia; lo cual representó aproxima-damente 11% del sentido de pertenencia de los estudiantes latinas/os. Se encontraron diferencias entre estudiantes blancos y latinas/os. Se discuten implicaciones importantes.