Trans professor makes history at Chicago State
by MASON HARRISON
23 June, 2010


http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=26997


When classes begin at Chicago State University later this summer under the tutelage of Das Janssen, it will usher in the almost-one-year mark since the Fordham University Ph.D. began his teaching career at the South Side institution. Janssen was welcomed to the school, along with other newly hired individuals, earlier in the year at a reception in the office of the university's president. But what stands out about Janssen's addition to the university, among everything else that seems so routine, is that Janssen, a philosophy professor, is openly transgender—the first such addition, by all accounts, to the school in its history.

U of Chicago had a trans professor over a decade ago, as have many other leading colleges and universities.  It's not a big deal in upper academica, on the other hand, Chicago State is a mislabeled JC/CC, and they have been slower.