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Government allows Christian University to ban LGBTQ students
A Christian university in Tennessee was just granted special permission from the federal government to ban students who are gay.
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Baylor University drops ‘homosexual acts’ from conduct rules
Previously, Baylor University policy listed homosexual acts with adultery, fornication, incest, sexual abuse, harassment and assault as sexual acts that were expressly prohibited.
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Barnard College votes to admit transgender women
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.
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Barnard College works toward a new policy on transgender student admissions
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.
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Smith College votes to accept transgender applicants
Smith President Kathleen McCartney said in announcing the change that “In the years since Smith’s founding, concepts of female identity have evolved.”
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Iowa college to offer LGBT student housing
Iowa Western Community College set aside a cluster of suite-style apartments to create an optional community-style living environment for LGBT students.
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University of New Mexico students approve ‘gender‑neutral’ constitution
Students at the University of New Mexico have voted to make all pronouns in the student government’s constitution gender-neutral.
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Kansas panel advances bill protecting college religious groups amid protest fears
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.”
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Judge: University of Pittsburgh transgender locker room ban didn’t discriminate
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.
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Missouri bills would ban gender neutral university housing, unisex bathrooms
Gender-neutral university housing and many unisex public bathrooms would be banned in Missouri under bills that have been introduced in the Legislature.