“Rutgers has a great history of welcoming LGBT students,” says Richard K. Jung, who was attracted to the university’s inclusive culture before becoming director of development at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences two years ago. “We had one of the very first LGBT student groups in the nation.”
Rutgers’ commitment to sexual-orientation and gender-identity equality dates back to 1969, when the student Homophile Leaguenow called the Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Alliance of Rutgers University (BiGLARU)was formed by thenEnglish major Lionel Cuffie.
Still, Jung noticed “a few things that just weren’t in place for our LGBT students” when he came aboard. “We didn’t have dedicated scholarship funds we didn’t have an alumni groupand those things are really important,” he says.
