Chick-Fil-A May Be Coming to Campus
Process and Timeline
We've received an outline of the rough process and timeline admin is looking at using to make a decision about CFA. Next steps include:
- 根据确定的和常规的选择标准，包括合同条款，对Chick-Fil-A进行详细的审查, food variety and appeal, campus feedback, organizational alignment, service timing, quality standards, health and safety, sustainability practices, and data. This includes assessing their alignment with GVSU’s values and the needs of our diverse community.
- Augmentation of student choice results: Recognizing the importance of student voice in this process, 该大学正在审查和扩大对学生偏好的初步调查结果，以确保广泛考虑各种意见.
- 高兴趣供应商名单:基于初步反馈, campus dining has shortlisted Qdoba and Mooyah as potential alternative vendors of high interest to students. The university is considering whether an additional survey is necessary to finalize this list.
- Engagement with alternative vendors: In the university’s commitment to providing diverse and inclusive options, 它正在与其他供应商联系，评估他们的兴趣，并在我们的校园设施内审查潜在的场地选择, including Kirkhof and Lower Commons.
- 及时的决策:学校正在努力工作，以避免延长开放新的餐饮选择，并尽量减少任何相关的担忧. 目标是在下个月之前做出并分享最终决定, 视乎是否有机会拜访卖主及是否有兴趣.
The timeline is rough and depends on scheduling for meeting with other potential vendors, so we are told it may take longer than a month.
Construction Paused
FSA领导层从高级领导团队的一名成员那里得到消息，福来鸡的建设已经停止. Here is an excerpt from that message explaining next steps and what options are being considered:
一小群副总裁会见了曼特拉总统，我们共同分享了我们从不同渠道听到的见解和担忧，并讨论了前进道路的几种选择. As a result, 我们已经决定立即停止在Kirkhof的Chick-Fil-A的建设(除非需要进行一些工作，以确保在那里坐一段时间的安全)。. We plan to go back to the original and intended engagement process with the community, 包括校园里重要和有影响力的团体和组织. In addition, we plan to have corporate representatives from Chick-Fil-A on campus to engage and answer questions from the GVSU community. We will engage with all, specifically the LGBT+ FSA, the LGBT Center, the AP committee, the Student Senate, food/dining committee. 我们认为，这一参与过程可能导致以下三个步骤中的一个:1)继续在Kirkoff建设和安置Chick-Fil-A; 2)在校园的另一个地点(不是Kirkoff)建造Chick-Fil-A，或者最终, not inviting CFA to GVSU at all and replacing the venue that used to be Subway with some other food option.
It's important, we think, to note that building a Chick-Fil-A is still very much an option that's being considered. So we encourage those with concerns to keep voicing them. We are still co-ordinating with other concerned parties inside and outside the university. 随着社区参与进程的推进, we will advocate for opportunities for membership to voice their concerns directly as much as possible, 让你知道这些机会会在何时何地出现.
到目前为止，食品标准局对在校园建一家福来鸡的计划了解多少
The following is everything we know about the (confirmed) plans to put a Chick-Fil-A on GVSU campus. 在这一点上，很多细节仍然不清楚. We will update this document as we learn more.
Last updated: 4/10/24
Is Chick-Fil-A coming to campus?
You may have heard rumors that there are plans underway to open a Chick-Fil-A on campus. Sadly, this is true. 在过去几周听到这些谣言后, FSA领导层向高级领导团队(SLT)成员伸出援手, who confirmed it. GVSU显然已经与该公司签订了合同.
When? Where?
因为还没有官方宣布, 我们对细节的了解完全来自与他人的交谈, and from some of the site plans for construction we’ve seen, as well as financial documents. 看起来它要在柯克夫开了，可能会取代赛百味. According to the site plans, construction has already commenced, and continues into late August. 因此，开业时间将在8月底或9月初.
Why?
最一致的理由是，学生们在与期望的食物选择相关的调查中一直把它排在前列. 我们要求提供一些数据，并将其链接在下面. This data comes from Greg Sanial, Vice President for Finance and Administration, and dates from 2019.
We have a lot of questions about this, the most pressing, we think, LGBTQIA学生是否以系统的方式参与了这个问题.
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Who Made this Decision?
We don't know, and are trying to find out. 当然，校园餐饮也会在一定程度上参与其中. 我们目前还不清楚是谁在领导层批准了这项计划, 他们是如何以及是否事先与社区中的任何人接触的, and how they square it with university values.
Why is Chick-Fil-A problematic? Didn’t they stop giving to antigay causes?
These are excellent questions. 2012年，福来鸡慈善捐款引发的最初争议集中在他们向两家大型慈善机构的捐款上, and public, 反同性恋声明和政策:救世军, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Chick-Fil-A确实不再为这些慈善机构捐款. 然而，重要的是要了解这种变化的背景. In 2018, Chick-Fil-A重新设计了整个捐赠项目，将重点放在教育上, homelessness and hunger. Chick-Fil-A stopped giving to over 80 organizations that did not fit with the new focus-including the two already mentioned. 因此，这种变化更多的是与他们的捐赠计划的大规模重新聚焦有关, 而对反同性恋事业捐款的担忧更少. 同样重要的是，Chick-Fil-A从未公开承诺将来不与反同性恋慈善机构合作, 或者发表任何类似的公开政策声明. While Chick-Fil-A now has a "承诺平等就业机会、不骚扰、多元化、公平和包容“那就是‘性取向、性别、性别认同、性别表达’， 没有证据表明Chick-Fil-A与明确为LGBTQ社区或事业服务的组织合作或提供捐款.
最后，公司与凯茜家族的关系. CFA makes a big deal about being "family owned," so those ties are very relevant. The current CEO of Chick-Fil-A, Andrew Truett Cathy, is the son of Dan Cathy, 谁是2012年在新闻媒体上发表反lgbtq +言论的首席执行官. 丹•凯西(Dan Cathy)仍是CFA董事会成员, and is well-known to give a lot of money to lawmakers and groups that support anti-LGBTQIA+ agendas. In 2021, Dan Cathy gave substantial amounts of money to the National Christian Foundation (NCF) to oppose the equality act. NCF has also been called out for funneling money to hate groups. 看看这份2022年由 NCF - (From ProPublica), which shows they created 2 foundations (在底部突出显示)给凯茜一家. 这些基金会的物理地址和 Chick-Fil-A corporate HQ. 因此，即使CFA可以真实地声称它本身并没有为反同性恋事业捐款, 它与非常富有的人深深纠缠在一起.
Links:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chick-fil-a-ties-to-anti-equality-act-efforts-explained-2021-6
http://www.them.us/story/chick-fil-a-owner-bankrolling-hate-groups-targeting-trans-kids
http://www.chick-fil-a.com/about/giving-back
http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbt-donations/
Is it true that campus athletics have been using Chick-Fil-A as a vendor for the past three years?
This is apparently true as well. 从我们和高层管理人员的谈话中得知, the idea was to try out using CFA in athletics as a "litmus test" for potential acceptance on campus, and there were "no complaints" about this.
As far as we know, 这件事并没有在全校范围内宣布, 所以只有去看了田径比赛才会知道. 并不是所有人都参与体育运动，所以很多人都不知道. 这对我们这些指导委员会的成员来说是一个巨大的惊喜. 我们怎么能抱怨我们不知道正在发生的事情呢?
博天堂官方网页“没有人抱怨”的说法, 它一直被提升为校园内的领导者，因为它存在问题，与在田径赛事和校园内创造更安全环境的努力背道而驰. 以下是LGBTQIA+社区和领导层盟友最近特别提到这些问题的三个背景:
FALL 2021
After GVSU Athletics’ first SEA of Change in August 2021, the Laker Inclusion Team (LIT) 9月份开始与运动员艾丽认真合作 Athletics Equality Index. LIT was working on an updated Fan Code of Conduct which explicitly called out homophobic and transphobic language, behavior and signage. 《博天堂官方》是基于学生运动员对他们在体育赛事中听到/经历的反馈，以及他们认为对解决一些最恶劣和最频繁的行为/语言最有帮助的反馈. The question re: the misalignment of CFA and what we were trying to do came from student-athlete representatives on LIT. Leadership in Athletics were on the call and responded that CFA was not up for discussion. Ultimately, GVSU体育完成了体育平等指数报告.
FALL 2022
After the second SEA of Change in August 2022, LIT开始了为期一年的审查，以了解球迷行为准则是如何通过体育赛事生态系统实施和运作的. 这次审查是由发生在 Duke-BYU volleyball match in August 2022. LIT将该事件作为GVSU体育的案例研究进行了讨论，并提出了一个由多个部分组成的对话，邀请不同的各方参加LIT会议, including facilities, game ops and senior admin in Athletics. Through that process, LIT learned that the Fan Code of Conduct had not yet been integrated into our Fan Guides or guides for opposing teams competing on our campus. LIT建议管理员直接与教练联系，讨论最新的球迷行为准则，以及如何通过违规实例支持沟通. At a subsequent LIT meeting around this topic, 各种各样的工作人员和行政人员加入了谈话, 学生运动员咨询委员会主席谈到了CFA作为足球比赛供应商与我们所支持的流程之间的不一致, 特别是我们想要传达的信息. 我们怎么能说我们在体育部反对同性恋恐惧症和变性恐惧症如果我们给一个积极参与项目的组织提供资金来延续这两个项目呢? Again, leadership in Athletics were on the call and responded that CFA was not up for discussion.
FALL 2023
In September 2023, the Division of Inclusion & Equity, Office of the Provost, Human Resources, 皮尤教师教学中心举办了一场 Colloquium Series: Inclusion and Equity Efforts to Elevate Historically Underrepresented Faculty and Staff focused on LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff. The Fall 2023 Colloquium was with Dr. D-L Stewart 其中包括校园主管的学习会议，LGBTQIA+教职员工的亲密空间，以及LGBT资源中心的酷儿和跨性别学生的亲密空间. The timing of the decision to bring Dr. 斯图尔特校园受到各种重大校园事件的影响，这些事件直接影响了LGBTQIA+社区，并积极损害了创造教育公平文化的努力, one of which can be outlined here. Dr. 斯图尔特带领LGBTQIA+员工和教师的亲和小组通过围绕识别和统一围绕期望的实践练习, Policies, Norms and Interactions with Others. “Getting rid of Chick-Fil-A at football games” was identified by this group as a key desired practice by the University, right after “upper admin responds promptly and publicly to homophobic or transphobic incidents on campus.” These Practices, Policies, 规范和与他人的互动由包容与公平司的领导层和合作伙伴编制和掌握.
I’m being told the LGBT Center and Inclusion and Equity have “signed off” on the presence of Chick-Fil-A on campus. Is this true?
我们也听到了这个传言，并联系了两地的工作人员进行证实. Our understanding from speaking to folks in both camps is that staff were aware this was being considered, and offered feedback, and that is all. 任何这样说的人似乎都是被误导了.
节选自I公司副总裁杰西·伯纳尔的回答&E in response to our questions:
I&E nor I signed off or endorsed anything. As you know, I&E nor I have any authority over campus dining. 我担心的是，除了倾听, learning and engaging, the role I have played, may have been communicated.
LGBT中心主任DL Mckinney发表声明:
As an advocate of the LGBT Resource Center the power that I hold is as strong as the voices of the LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and students that I serve. The idea of including Chick-fil-A in Kirkhof has only been presented to me as a concept, 我似乎没有什么决策权. 我继续要求我们作为一个机构，在我们的决定和程序上保持清晰和透明. I have yet to see that.
What can we do?
在短期内，个人采取的最佳行动有两个方面:
First, share this document with others, and talk about this with your networks, your colleagues, your departments, anyone and everyone who will listen. Because there's been no announcement about this, a lot of people just don't know it's happening. So help us get the word out.
Second, you can file a Campus Climate concern over this issue. Senior leadership does see these, and volume counts for something, so if enough people express concern, that may prompt some kind of reaction.
LGBT FSA领导层正在积极收集更多信息，并与其他相关方共同制定战略, 比如LGBT中心和美联社社会公正小组委员会, so that we can present a coordinated response.
Related links
Students quoted in this article had very mixed feelings about the opening of a Chick-Fil-A near campus:
Chick-Fil-A Opens Near Allendale Campus
GVSU cut business ties with Papa Johns after their CEO used a racial slur in a conference call:
In 2001, 由于不公平的劳动行为，GVSU学生参加了全国抵制塔可钟的活动(向下滚动页面可以看到):
学生参议院要求修改校董会的政策，该政策要求学校只与那些表现出不歧视性别认同和性取向的供应商打交道。
