In elevatg Clde Gay, a polil scientist who has spent most of her reer at Harvard Universy and held learship rol for nearly a , the stutn has opted for an sir’s steady and studly unflamboyant learship.
Contents:
- GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
- ‘QUIET STRENGTH’ AT THE TOP: IN CLDE GAY, HARVARD TURNS TO OL, UNFLAPPABLE LEARSHIP AT A TIME OF HIGHER TN TURMOIL
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS: PAST EXPERIENC THAT SHAPE TODAY: PARADIGMS AND POLICI FOR TNAL LEARS
- CYCL OF FEAR: A MOL OF LBIAN AND GAY EDUTNAL LEARS' LIVED EXPERIENC
GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
Sce that event at Boone High School was nceled, the state extend the so-lled don’t say gay bill, or parental rights tn bill, to high school.
“They were not supportive and they said homophobic thgs while they did that and they took food om stunts who need , ” said Seyler. I am gay!
For Damon Zuima, a former K–8 mic tor, was important for his stunts to know that he is gay and for his admistratn to be supportive of his cisn to share so openly wh his class. When asked if he felt prsure to hi his sexualy to his stunts, Connor Schmidt, a primary school teacher Beijg who is openly gay, shared:.
‘QUIET STRENGTH’ AT THE TOP: IN CLDE GAY, HARVARD TURNS TO OL, UNFLAPPABLE LEARSHIP AT A TIME OF HIGHER TN TURMOIL
Jonny Vriema, a physil tn teacher Jacksonville, Florida, who intifi as a gay Christian, fears that his sire to live out his fah and teach wh relig schools will create nflict. Damon’s rponse to his send grar’s surprise about him beg gay was an easy one.
Days later, after more allegatns emerged agast the profsor, John Comaroff, nearly all the faculty members disavowed their oute of the unually public spat — surrenr by the challengg profsors, vditn for Gay — was unsurprisg to close observers of her reer, who scribed her as a eply thoughtful and unflappable lear who never mak a move whout first studyg her optns om every angle. ”Harvard profsors said that elevatg Gay, a polil scientist who has spent most of her reer at the universy and held learship rol for nearly a , the stutn has opted for an sir’s steady, rigoro, and studly unflamboyant learship as the school, and the higher tn dtry wr large, fac unmon challeng.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS: PAST EXPERIENC THAT SHAPE TODAY: PARADIGMS AND POLICI FOR TNAL LEARS
Clde Gay, an of the school’s faculty of arts and scienc at Harvard Universy, spoke to the crowd after beg named the universy’s next print December.
Er Clark/Globe StaffThere is, of urse, drama herent Gay’s arrival as the first Black print of the natn’s olst universy and the historic challenge that will greet her on day one. In the weeks before Gay tak charge, the US Supreme Court is expected to outlaw affirmative actn llege admissns, privg Harvard and other selective schools of a tool they say is sential to admtg a racially diverse class.
The anticipated lg uld prove an existential threat to the kd of universy Harvard wants to be — and Gay to lead; at the least, would create a stern tt for her and her peers amic learship across the land, a hort that will be watchg tently to see how she meets at Harvard believe Gay uld prove the perfect match for the moment. Jennifer Hochschild, a profsor of ernment and Ain Amerin studi, said Gay has the right temperament and valu to gui Harvard to a post–affirmative actn era, a time bound to be rife wh ntent bat over how diversy should be fed and how universi n pursue whout nng afoul of the, she said, has “a very ep, maybe lifelong mment to diversy done the right way. ”In her own measured way, Gay has signaled that Harvard will never give up on diversy, but that the school, unr her learship, will honor that mment refully.
CYCL OF FEAR: A MOL OF LBIAN AND GAY EDUTNAL LEARS' LIVED EXPERIENC
“Irrpective of the [Supreme Court’s] cisn, we will ply wh the law, ” Gay told reporters December. Natnal policians are attackg — wh rhetoric and policy — what they view as an excsive liberal bias higher tn at the same time as public nfince lleg and universi has cled to the lowt level to home, Gay, who is 52, will also oversee Harvard’s $100 ln effort to redrs s early ti to slavery and advance the universy’s sprawlg velopment plans Allston. Throughout her reer, lleagu said, Gay has voted herself to tense scholarly quiry to the role of race Amerin polics and society.
“She’s gog to be phg to say the need to be full, hont nversatns, and they need to be guid by rearch, ” said Dan Carpenter, the chair of Harvard’s ernment partment, who has worked wh Gay for more than 20 years. Clde Gay (bottom left) wh her fay.
Harvard UniversyWhen Gay was a girl, her parents — Haian immigrants to the Uned Stat — ma pla that she was expected to go to llege, she said a December speech after she was named to succeed current Harvard print Lawrence Baw. (Harvard cled to make Gay available for an terview for this article.