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To inform efforts to improve our own univer sity’s LGBT campus climate programming, we surveyed institutions about their programs. We invited all institutional members of the consortium (N= 200) to participate in the study. Fiftyone institutions completed the survey (return rate= 26%). Forty four campus climaterelated education and awareness programs were described, and 25 of these were ATPs. Information about the goals, content, and design of five of these programs was not provided, thereby reducing our analytical sample to 20 ATPs. The analytical sample consisted of 16 universities and four 4 year colleges, 52% with student populations of 15,000 or less. On average, institutions in this sample had 1.38 full time staff and 2.92 parttime staff dedicated to LGBT campus programs. Using NVIVO version 7, two of the researchers inductively analyzed the data using open coding and focused coding …