SloanLGBT is a student organization established to foster and promote an open and honest environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered students, partners, faculty and staff in the Sloan community. We seek to promote positive images of the LGBT community and to foster opportunities for personal and professional growth regardless of sexual preference or sexual identity.
We achieve this by:
- Promoting positive visibility in the Sloan community
- Fostering a sense of community among Sloan's LGBT students
- Providing a contact point for gay-friendly companies
- Networking with professionals outside of Sloan
- Creating opportunities for socializing with other LGBT students (e.g. MIT, Harvard, BU)
- Becoming a resource for professional issues (e.g. by hosting seminars on being out in the workplace, benefits issues, financial planning, etc.)
- Establishing a resource for general information (e.g. by hosting a web page with links to resources for those questioning sexual identity or for non-gay professionals interested in gay workplace issues)
- Creating a community of Sloan LGBT Alumni
Contact us at lgbtofficers@sloan.mit.edu
Congratulations MIT Sloan LGBT Case Competition Team!!
The MIT Sloan case competition team won the 2007 Reaching Out case competition in San Francisco, October 11-14th. Competition was fierce among the six competiting schools, but ultimately Sloan's combination of teamwork and unique conceptualizations sealed the victory. The team hopes that this victory will help spread the renown and awareness of MIT Sloan as a supportive and successful place for LGBT MBAs.
Read the article about Sloan's victory in FIFTEEN, the Sloan Student Newspaper:
FIFTEEN-Page1.pdf
FIFTEEN-Page2.pdf
MIT Sloan LGBT in the news
MIT Sloan has been in the news for an LGBT-related incident in the Spring semester, 2008. We encourage those interested to read the original MIT Tech article which details the incident and the response by the community. Since that article a letter to the sloan community was put forward by a group of students.
Applying to MIT Sloan?
Interested in attending MIT Sloan? We encourage you to contact the admissions office, to learn more about what Sloan has to offer. However, we understand that being LGBT introduces questions that the admissions staff may not be able to answer, since we have experienced this situation ourselves. The SloanLGBT officers urge you to email us so that we can provide you with helpful advice in applying to business schools including MIT Sloan. We like to meet LGBT applicants if you come visit our campus. Your interaction with MIT SloanLGBT places no bearing on the admissions decision, but will help you understand how you can potentially contribute to the school's community by talking with others with a similar background that have already made the decision to attend MIT Sloan. We look forward to hearing from you and meeting you! Email us at lgbtofficers@sloan.mit.edu.
Admit Weekend I 2009 Events
We will be having an event on Friday, February 27th, 2009 -- please email us if you plan on attending!
Fall Recruiting Events
SloanLGBT has a series of events during the fall semester with companies reaching out to LGBT students in their recruiting efforts. If you are affiliated with a company interested in setting up a recruiting event with us, please email us at lgbtofficers@sloan.mit.edu
Recent Dinners and Cocktail hours were sponsored by:
Top Consulting Firms: Bain, BCG, McKinsey
Top Investment Banks: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers
Links and Resources
MIT
The Coffeehouse organizes a number of social and professional activities for LGBT graduate students at MIT.
GaMIT is an organization devoted to insuring the existence of a queer-positive environment at MIT.
Their goal is to provide a social and professional network for MIT affiliates who are supportive of bisexual, gay, and lesbian minorities, including a dedication to improving the quality of life for these minorities at the Institute.
Other Business Schools
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