Worst schools for lgbtq students
These are the 'worst, most unsafe' campuses for LGBTQ students to attend
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LGBTQ students, as you contemplate college, here's a list of schools you may want to avoid.
Nonprofit organization Campus Pride on Monday released its updated list of about 180 of the "absolute worst, most unsafe college campuses for LGBTQ students in the United States." The organization organization's new alphabetical list – updated from a 2016 list – has 50 new schools and universities.
Campus Pride is a volunteer-driven, student-based network that seeks to provide a safer college environment for LGBTQ students through resources, programs and services, according to their website.
Over the course of six years, colleges have been added as they either applied or received religious exemptions to Title IX, which is a federal law that "protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance."
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Editor's Note: Due to inaccurate knowledge provided by Campus Parade, this story originally included the University of Saint Francis – Fort Wayne on the list of unsafe campuses for LGBTQ youth. According to records from the U.S. Department of Education, the university has not applied for a Title IX religious exemption, and Campus Celebration has removed Saint Francis from its list. WRTV regrets the error.
INDIANAPOLIS — Three Indiana colleges hold been deemed some of the worst universities in the country for LGBTQ students.
Campus Pride, a nonprofit LGBTQ advocacy community, released its annual findings of "the absolute worst, most unsafe campuses for LGBTQ youth" earlier this week.
The nonprofit states its 2021 Worst List is the longest its been since 2016, with 180 colleges.
According to Campus Pride, the colleges and universities listed have received or applied for a Title IX religious exemption "to openly discriminate against LGBTQ youth," or hold a history of "anti-LGBTQ policies, programs and practices."
Three of the Indiana universities on Campus Pride's Worst List are:
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180 colleges feature on Campus Pride’s ‘Worst List’ of universities for LGBTQ students
A nonprofit organization that focuses on creating safe environments for LGBTQ students has released its annual “Worst List” of colleges and universities that it deems unsafe for members of the LGBTQ community, with 50 new campuses existence added to the list this year alone.
In total, 180 colleges or universities are on the “Worst List,” which has been released annually by Campus Pride since 2015. The colleges on the list are those that contain either demonstrated a footpath record of anti-LGBTQ actions, programs, or practices, or those that have requested Title IX religious exemptions that allow the institutions to discriminate against potential applicants and current students based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
All of the colleges on this year’s list are religiously-affiliated, Campus Pride noted, highlighting an example in which Liberty University, based on Lynchburg, Virginia, allegedly placed students into conversion therapy, while also criticizing the university for affiliating itself with the conservative legal company Liberty
Campus Pride, a organization that advocates for LGBTQ inclusivity and safety at U.S. colleges and universities, on Monday released its annual Worst List naming 180 colleges and universities as “the absolute worst, most unsafe campuses for LGBTQ youth.”
The nonprofit added 50 universities to the list since last year, making it the longest it has been in its six-year history.
The list includes colleges and universities that have either received or applied for a religious exemption to Title IX, a federal rule that protects students from discrimination in federally funded schools, or have a “demonstrated history of anti-LGBTQ policies, programs and practices,” according to a news release.
School boards need to notice evidence of a problem before committing to action. So GLSEN conducted a survey with results showing 59% of LGBTQ students sense unsafe or unwelcome at their schools. GLSEN National Scholar Council member Aiden Cloud says that's a problem that needs to be addressed with surpass protections, particularly after several states passed laws that impact LGBTQ kids.
Part of the reason this year’s list is significantly longer is because of modifications mad
Wheaton College ranks among the worst schools for LGBTQ students, according to two lists released this week.
Campus Pride, a nonprofit group that aims to build safe college environments for LGBTQ students, and the Princeton Review listed the private, Christian school as unfriendly to lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning students.
The west suburban campus, with about 2,400 undergraduate students, took the top spot on the Princeton Review list of LGBTQ-Unfriendly schools, as it did in 2010 and 2012. The ranking, included in the Best Colleges guidebook released this week, was based on learner responses to surveys. One question asked, “Do students, faculty and administrators at your college treat all persons equally regardless of their sexual orientations and gender identity/expression?”
Campus Pride's “Shame List” of “worst campuses for LGBTQ youth” included 102 campuses that hold applied or received a Title IX religious exemption to allow institutions to discriminate against LGBTQ youths, or that have demonstrated a history of anti-LGBT actions.
“Wheaton College has qualified for the Shame List because it presented an ‘ex-gay' speaker in its chapel