Well, isn't that special!
Posted on 08/25/2006 8:25:35 AM PDT by georgiarat
In an age when colleges live and die by their rankings, a new focus for campus assessment is emerging: gay-friendliness.
The Advocate, the national newsmagazine for gays and lesbians, published a 389-page book this month listing the 100 schools that it says offer the best discrimination protection, most friendly climate, and most extensive campus services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students. Sixteen of the schools are in New England, including six in Massachusetts.
MIT, for one, made the top 100. The school is cited for having one of the nation's oldest gay and lesbian student groups and for early on including both sexual orientation and gender identity in its nondiscrimination policy, yielding what the book, The Advocate College Guide, calls a high "gay point average."
"It is a welcoming place," said Natalija Jovanovic, a graduate engineering student at MIT and president of the Rainbow Coffee House, a gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual social group. ................
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Can someone post the 100 colleges and univs?
vaudine
Bet my college (The Evergreen State College) is in the top 10.
How'd I ever survive that????
GLBT.... who wants to hang out with a bunch of people who don't even know what they are? How can someone study advanced engineering and not even know if they themselves are male or female?
Could I reprint the findings and call it "Best anti-homosexual colleges"?
Thank goodness. This is what I call useful consumer information.
Conservative parents need this kind of information when helping their kids make such an expensive and life-shaping decision such as where to experience their college education.
I applaud this. Money well spent, and my heartfelt thanks to the Advocate for providing us with this service!
There is no shortage of limp-wristed, purse-swinging bed-wetters on that campus.
NYU is #1. It's where I went to grad school and agree with the ranking.
The schoo's sports team name is the "Voilets". How's that to strike fear in the opponent?
Yes, this is a double edged sword. I'm heavily inclined to send my kids to the schools either not on the list, or flagged as "anti-homo" by these pervs.
The ironic thing about this is that these same campuses
are becoming increasingly "un-friendly" to those of us who disagree with this aberrant behavior.
So much for the "marketplace of ideas".
Hey, isn't Evergreen State the same school that Rachel Corrie went to?!
Great Defenders of Equality.
Anyways, my guess is the lower-performing schools have better grads overall.
NYU is #1. It's where I went to grad school and agree with the ranking.
The schoo's sports team name is the "Voilets". How's that to strike fear in the opponent?
I think you meant "violets", but in spelling it "voilets", it reminds me of "toilets"... which... nevermind.
So this can be used by parents to avoid schools.
I bet some of the "snootier" schools were included to make it seem like ALL their graduates were homosexuals.
Who knows it may eventually be reduced to" University X graduate!? I didn't know you were a homosexual!"
Instead of a Top Ten, wouldn't their preferred colleges be "Bottom Ten"?
Soon, they'll be teaching 6-18 year-olds in California about the differences between "Tops" and "Bottoms"...
That number seems low to me.
I wonder how much "value" a degree has from some of these universities.
Is it the degree or the connections you make?
I remember decades ago, some universities were outright ridiculed for the "low value" degree.
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