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Will Banks (East Carolina U), Martha Marinara (U of Central Florida), Samantha Blackmon (Purdue), and Jonathan Alexander (U of Cincinnati) would like to invite you to participate in a quick survey related to issues of diversity in first-year writing classrooms and programs.

While investigations into cultural and ethnic diversity continue to transform teaching practices in college writing courses, there remains a significant gap in our knowledge about whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) topics, concerns, or issues have become part of college curricula. Although a few scholar-teachers have told stories of their personal experiences of integrating LGBT content into classes, there has been no systematic, large-scale inquiry into the representation of LGBT topics, concerns, or issues in first-year writing classes. To gain insight into what kinds of exposure, if any, students in their first year of college have to LGBT issues and concerns, we are asking you to take 10 – 15 minutes to respond to the following survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=531123206826

In order to offer a quick and efficient a survey as possible, some questions may not appear for all participants depending on their answers to earlier questions about their professional responsibilities. Do not be alarmed as all submitted responses will be considered in the final data analysis.

While we are sending invitations to participate to a number of listservs, please help us to get as complete a picture as possible by forwarding this message and link to other colleagues who may be interested in participating in this study.

We thank you in advance for taking the time to help us with this important research project.

Will, Martha, Sam, & Jonathan (posted for them by Bradley)