November 2020Campus Pride

TS HEADER IMAGELGBTQ-Friendly Campus List UpdatedTS DIVIDING RULEEach October, Campus Pride recognizes LGBTQ History Month, National Coming Out Day, and the beginning of a new academic year by releasing its list of the most LGBTQ-friendly campuses in the United States. The 40 recipients of this year’s “best of the best” designation were those institutions that ranked highest amongst the approximately 400 campuses listed in the site’s Campus Pride Index.To be listed in the Campus Pride Index, campuses must respond to more than 50 self-assessment questions that are grouped within eight different LGBTQ-friendly factors. These factors look at how LGBTQ students are supported through policy inclusion, support and institutional commitment, academic life, student life, housing, campus safety, counseling and health, and recruitment and retention efforts.The “best of the best” for 2020 are as follows (listed alphabetically):

Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN

Elon University, Elon, NC

Guilford College, Greensboro, NC

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Kent State University, Kent, OH

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

Portland State University, Portland, OR

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL

Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Tufts University, Medford, MA

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Green Bay, WI

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

Washington State University, Pullman, WA

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