"As the leading national organization for LGBT students and campus groups, Campus Pride is pleased Newsweek relied on our expertise, resources and our nationally acclaimed online LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index (http://www.CampusPrideIndex.org) for its ranking of its "Top 25 Gay Friendly Colleges for 2011," said Shane Windmeyer, Campus Pride executive director/founder. "The Index is a valuable research tool for national benchmarking on LGBT policies, programs and practices. Of course, its free to everyone online -- prospective students, families as well as colleges and universities -- its even accessible for professional news sources like Newsweek."

As stated on the Newsweek's site: To compile the list of the campuses that are the most accepting and open-minded of LGBT students and supporters, we first turned to , a leading metric of how inclusive colleges campuses are of LGBT and Ally people. As well, we considered whether colleges have a LGBT campus center, and College Prowler survey data revealing how students rate the diversity and degree of acceptance for each campus.

Writer Eric Resnick at Cleveland's Gay People's Chronice reports in the paper's July 18 issue, which is online currently, that the director of Case Western Reserve University's LGBT center was asked to resign only 88 days after being hired.

Center director Dan Coleman says he was asked to resign when he went to see Deputy Provost Lynn Singer and give her good news on the school's progress on Campus Pride's LGBT-Friendly College Climate Index. The school had been ranked at 3.5, but had moved up to 4.5, out of a total of 5 possible points.

That low score was one of the deciding factors in setting up the center, Resnick reports. Coleman told the newspaper he worked on several items to increase the score, including setting up an LGBT resource library, a graduation ceremony for LGBT students, an LGBT alumni group and more. Coleman also undertook a great deal of campus research for the index, something he says hadn't been done before.

Coleman said he was "baffled" at the resignation request and believes he was fired for moving too quickly on LGBT issues, and described a certain "patience of the entire university on LGBT equality."

“I was willing to be vocal about things and that may have crossed a boundary with the boss," he told the Chronicle. “I think they wanted someone to move slower on LGBT equality. They’re dedicated to it, but they want someone to take their time.”

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Wed, November 4, 2009

Campus Pride College Fair Comes to New York City to Recruit Out LGBT & Ally Students this Friday, November 6, 2009

Nearly fifty colleges to attend national fair program in partnership with the New York LGBT Community Center

New York, NY, Wed, November 4, 2009 – This Friday Campus Pride (www.campuspride.org) comes to New York City to host its national college fair, the only program in the nation for out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and ally students to find LGBT-friendly colleges. The fair will take place on Friday, Nov. 6 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY. The fair is in partnership with the Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Program of the LGBT Community Center. More information available at http://www.campusclimateindex.org/events.

Campus Pride College Fair Comes to Massachusetts Statehouse to Recruit Out LGBT & Ally Students on Wednesday, September 30th

National fair program partners with Friends of GLBT Youth, Inc to provide state-wide outreach to youth and families

Boston, MA, Wed, September 16, 2009 -- In less than two weeks, Campus Pride (www.campuspride.org) comes to the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston to host its national college fair, the only program in the nation for out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and ally students to find LGBT-friendly colleges. The fair will take place on Wed, September 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Great Hall/Grand Staircase. The fair is in partnership with Friends of GLBT Youth, Inc based locally in Boston, MA . More information available at http://www.campusclimateindex.org/events.

There are nearly thirty colleges currently registered to attend the fair from across the country including: Babson College, Brandeis University, Brown University, Bridgewater State College, Case Western Reserve University, Columbia College Chicago, Colby-Sawyer College, Dartmouth College, Emory University, Emerson College, Goddard College, Harvard College, Haverford College, Pitzer College, Suffolk University, Susquehanna University, Trinity College, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Maine Farmington, University of New Hampshire, University of Southern Maine, University of Vermont, University of Maine, University of Pennsylvania, Ursinus College and Yale University.