Los Angeles Times
By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
March 30, 2012
The voluntary poll would come in response to a law that seeks to gauge the size of LGBT populations and whether they are being adequately served. But some question how the data would be used.
California's state colleges and universities are laying plans to ask students about their sexual orientation next year on application or enrollment forms, becoming the largest group of schools in the country to do so. The move has raised the hopes of gay activists for recognition but the concerns of others about privacy.
Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-uc-gay-20120330,0,303195.story
Showing posts with label Elmhurst College. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
College Asks Students Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
New American
Written by Jack Kenny
Sunday, 04 September 2011 13:00
Higher education is getting "Curioser and curioser!" as Alice said in Wonderland. Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, is now asking prospective students about their sexual orientations and "gender identities," the Chicago Sun-Times reported recently. "Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender) community?" is now among the questions asked students applying for admission to the college in the fall of 2012. No one is required to answer the question, the school says, though a "Yes" makes the applicant eligible for a scholarship worth a third of the cost of tuition. About 60 percent of the 3.300 students at the private liberal arts college are on scholarships of one sort or another, school officials said.
Full Story: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/8853-college-asks-students-their-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identities
Written by Jack Kenny
Sunday, 04 September 2011 13:00
Higher education is getting "Curioser and curioser!" as Alice said in Wonderland. Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, is now asking prospective students about their sexual orientations and "gender identities," the Chicago Sun-Times reported recently. "Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender) community?" is now among the questions asked students applying for admission to the college in the fall of 2012. No one is required to answer the question, the school says, though a "Yes" makes the applicant eligible for a scholarship worth a third of the cost of tuition. About 60 percent of the 3.300 students at the private liberal arts college are on scholarships of one sort or another, school officials said.
Full Story: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/8853-college-asks-students-their-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identities
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