Schools for the polls were generally selected as either being on the Princeton Review list of LGBTQ-friendly schools (i.e. based on surveys of students) and/or that received 5* from Campus Pride (i.e. the school’s policies). Originally, the questions were designed to try and get people to identify schools which made the lists, as sometimes there were surprises on the lists (or surprises as to which schools did not make the lists).
But @CC_Sorin suggested, and I agreed, that it could be more interesting to have posters engage more fully to see which schools they would pick as being LGBTQ-friendly. As it has often been mentioned on various threads where students are looking for LGBTQ-friendly schools, a school may have one type of reputation but it doesn’t necessarily line up with how things are in reality.
To provide some additional context, the original proposed questions are below:
- Which of these southern schools received a 5* rating from Campus Pride?
- Elon University
- George Mason University
- Guilford College
- Northern Kentucky University
- U. of Kentucky
- U. of Louisville
- Virginia Wesleyan University
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these midwestern schools received a 5* rating from Campus Pride?
- Augsburg University
- Kansas State University
- Kent State University
- Macalester College
- Purdue University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- U. of Wisconsin – Green Bay
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these southwestern schools received a 5* rating from Campus Pride? (Hint, there are only 2)
- Arizona State
- U. of Arizona
- U. of Dallas
- U. of New Mexico
- U. of Texas – Arlington
- U. of Texas – Austin
- U. of Texas – Dallas
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these western schools received a 5* rating from Campus Pride? (Hint, 2 are not)
- Lewis and Clark
- Portland State
- San Diego State
- U. of California – Berkeley
- U. of Colorado – Boulder
- U. of Northern Colorado
- Washington State
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these mid-Atlantic schools received a 5* rating from Campus Pride?
- Hofstra
- Lehigh
- Rutgers – New Brunswick
- Towson U.
- U. at Albany
- U. of Maryland – College Park
- Union College
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these New England schools received a 5* rating from Campus Pride?
- Bowdoin
- Brown
- Middlebury
- Trinity
- Tufts
- U. of Massachusetts – Amherst
- U. of Vermont
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these western schools made the Top 25 LGBTQ-friendly schools?
- Reed
- Pitzer
- Claremont McKenna
- Scripps
- U. of California – Merced
- U. of California – Berkeley
- U. of Oregon
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these schools in the middle of the country made the Top 25 LGBTQ-friendly schools?
- Earlham
- Washington U.
- Grinnell
- Macalester
- Rice
- U. of Wisconsin – Madison
- U. of Minnesota – Twin Cities
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these southern schools made the Top 25 LGBTQ-friendly schools?
- Agnes Scott
- Emory
- Loyola New Orleans
- U. of Alabama – Birmingham
- U. of Miami
- U. of North Carolina – Asheville
- William & Mary
- None of the Above
- All of the Above
- Which of these eastern schools made the Top 25 LGBTQ-friendly schools, in addition to the women’s colleges of Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, and Simmons?
- Bennington
- Clark
- College of the Atlantic
- Columbia
- Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
- Sarah Lawrence
- Wesleyan
- All of the Above
Princeton Review source: LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges | The Princeton Review
Campus Pride source: https://www.campusprideindex.org/