Recruiting Participants for Study of Gay and Lesbian Professional Staff in Higher Education

Dear Colleague,

I am a doctoral student at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, under the mentorship of Dr. Deborah J. Taub, conducting dissertation research on workplace climate, disclosure, and job satisfaction of gay and lesbian professional staff in higher education.

For the purposes of my study, professional staff is defined as those individuals employed within a higher education institution whose primary role is not that of a student or a teaching faculty member. I am looking to draw from various professional organizations in order to capture as wide an array of different areas within higher education as possible.

It will take approximately 10-15 minutes of your time to complete an anonymous, online survey related to your workplace climate, degree of outness at work, and overall job satisfaction as a gay or lesbian professional staff member in a higher educational setting.

You can access the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xVzUXiXxubcsR4Id3Eb6yw_3d_3d

Please feel free to pass this research request along to other higher education professionals as appropriate.

Brad Johnson
Ph.D. Candidate, Higher Education Administration
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
rbjohnso@uncg.edu