Just in time for back to school season, Campus Pride has released its annual listing of LGBT-friendly colleges today! Campus Pride, the leading national educational organization for LGBT and ally college students, has maintained an index of LGBT-friendly colleges since 2001 in order to help LGBT students and allies find welcoming campuses.
In addition, Campus Pride is going purple on October 16th for GLAAD's Spirit Day, a day where millions around the world go purple in support of LGBT youth and against bullying!
For the first time ever, Campus Pride has increased its annual list from the Top 25 to the Top 50 LGBT-friendly schools. Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride and the creator of the Campus Pride Index, said:
?For six years in a row, Campus Pride has seen an increase in the number of campuses coming out as LGBT-friendly and making notable improvements to LGBT academic life, so we decided to honor 50 campuses with our national distinction. Today the Campus Pride Index has over 425 campuses featured online and for the first time ever we have 56 campuses who achieved the highest 5 stars overall rating, the largest number to date.?
According to Campus Pride, each college had to achieve the 5 stars overall rating as well as have the highest percentages across the 8 LGBT-friendly benchmarks for policy, program, and practice in order to make the Top 50 this year.
For the third year in a row, over 80% of the participating colleges improved their ratings from the previous year. In other exciting news, the number of campuses located in the South increased, in addition to the number of religiously-affiliated campuses and Minority Serving Institutions.
Windmeyer said:
?More than ever colleges today want to be viewed as LGBT-friendly and a welcoming place for all students. LGBT students and their safety impacts the recruitment efforts of the entire campus. Upper-level administrators are now understanding how LGBT-friendliness is key to future institutional success. This Top 50 list is proof.?
The new Top 50 in alphabetical order are?drumroll please?�
Amherst CollegeAugsburg CollegeBrown UniversityCentral Washington UniversityConnecticut CollegeCornell UniversityDartmouth CollegeEmory UniversityHarvard UniversityIndiana UniversityIthaca CollegeMacalester CollegeNorthern Arizona UniversityOberlin CollegeOregon State UniversityPomona CollegePortland State UniversityPrinceton UniversityRutgers UniversitySan Diego State UniversitySouthern Illinois University CarbondaleSouthern Oregon UniversityStanford UniversitySyracuse UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State UniversityTulane UniversityUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, RiversideUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Santa CruzUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Massachusetts, AmherstUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Minnesota - DuluthUniversity of Minnesota - Twin CitiesUniversity of OregonUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Rhode IslandUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of VermontUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin - MilwaukeeWarren Wilson CollegeWashington State UniversityWashington University in St. Louis
Congratulations to the schools who made the list this year. Keep up the good work!
Campus Pride is also launching a brand new Sports Index this year to assess college athletic departments on their LGBT-friendliness and inclusion. GLAAD is in partnership with Campus Pride for this project, and college sports administrators are encouraged to take this online assessment to make sure their campus gets listed.
August 15, 2014
Issues:
News,
Spirit Day,
Young Adult
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