Colleges and Universities

Campus cops shook the frat bros’ hands and called them “handsome young men” instead of helping the “overwhelmed” LGBTQ students.

One in four trans college students reported being sexually, verbally or physically harassed.

While the league “reaffirmed their resolute opposition to legislation that discriminates against any individual,” the conference is standing pat.

Rep. Richard Hudson promised to “explore” the tax exempt status of the NCAA and ACC after they cancelled championship games in the state. Gov. McCrory brought it up as well.

Homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a campus building that houses a Jewish fraternity and a fraternity with many LGBTQ members.

Some students there didn’t want her speaking at a campus venue with ties to the country.

As religious universities try to accommodate LGBTQ students, strange double standards are emerging.

The school has been pushing students and employees to use a person’s preferred gender pronouns and is creating a “cultural identity center” for students.

At least 34 schools in 20 states have received, or are seeking, federal waivers allowing them to discriminate against transgender students in admissions, housing and other areas of campus life.

The waiver doesn’t mean people who are attracted to the same sex are prohibited from attending or graduating from the Christian school but that they must be celibate.

A Christian university in Tennessee was just granted special permission from the federal government to ban students who are gay.

Previously, Baylor University policy listed homosexual acts with adultery, fornication, incest, sexual abuse, harassment and assault as sexual acts that were expressly prohibited.

Barnard College has decided to admit transgender women, becoming the latest women’s college to issue a new policy acknowledging the fluidity and complexity of gender.

Next week, Barnard’s trustees are expected to vote on an issue that has arrived loudly and emphatically on the front burner for women’s colleges across the nation: transgender admissions.

Smith President Kathleen McCartney said in announcing the change that “In the years since Smith’s founding, concepts of female identity have evolved.”

Iowa Western Community College set aside a cluster of suite-style apartments to create an optional community-style living environment for LGBT students.

Students at the University of New Mexico have voted to make all pronouns in the student government’s constitution gender-neutral.

A GOP lawmaker warns that Kansas risks similar backlash as Indiana and Arkansas if lawmakers pass a bill aimed at protecting college religious groups, but a colleague said heeding such concerns would be “catering to the mob.”

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a transgender man who alleged the University of Pittsburgh expelled and subjected him to FBI scrutiny after a dispute over using a men’s locker room.

Gender-neutral university housing and many unisex public bathrooms would be banned in Missouri under bills that have been introduced in the Legislature.