Posted: Monday, October 23, 2006 7:00 pm
This is the GPA of the 21st century.
Grade point average? No, no.
Gay point average.
A college guide published this fall offers a list of the nation’s 100 most gay-friendly universities.
“The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students” gives each school a GPA based on 20 factors, like whether it provides domestic partner benefits, how many faculty and students are out and whether the school offers a major or minor in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer studies.
Despite the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s new LGBTQ minor, it didn’t make the cut.
Neither did Nebraska Wesleyan University, Doane College, Union College … or any other Nebraska school, for that matter.
Apparently, gay college students in the Cornhusker State think we have some work to do.
Midwestern campuses that do crack the top 100: Iowa State University, the University of Kansas, Michigan State University, Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
— Melissa Lee