Lavender Living
Learning Community

The Lavender Living Learning Community provides a supportive residential experience that fosters academic and social success for students wishing to create an environment of learning, awareness, respect, and advocacy for all sexual and gender identities. Students in this Living Learning Community are able to express their whole selves, including their gender identities, expressions, and sexuality in a safe and affirming environment. The Lavender Living Learning Community is open to students of all majors.

Through a variety of activities and courses designed by the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement, the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, and the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, students living in the LLC will have an opportunity to:

  • Participate in a classroom learning community in which critical thinking skills are developed to help students become engaged scholars and global citizens

  • Foster an environment of awareness, respect, and advocacy for all sexual and gender identities

  • Learn in a welcoming, affirming, and supportive space that embraces sexual and gender diversity

  • Develop positive interpersonal relationships with LLC community members, faculty, staff, and other students through opportunities for active engagement

  • Connections to campus and community resources that foster leadership development

  • Engage in campus activities and community events that explore sexual and gender diversity

  • Foster study groups and discussions regarding common classwork, readings, and events

  • Learn to maintain a healthy balance between academic and social pursuits

The Lavender LLC is open to all majors. The priority application deadline is March 29, 2024.

Key Dates for 2025:

Coming soon.

For more information about opportunities available to community members, please contact Kevin Cozart at lavenderllc@olemiss.edu.