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Despite its reputation as a bastion for strong women, Smith College officials have rejected applications from transwomen -- a policy that many students and alumni protest.

The student senate at Texas A&M University narrowly approved a measure that allows religious students to opt out of funding the school’s LGBT resource center, which will cut into its $100,000 annual budget.

Members of a frat from Emerson College have launched an online campaign in order to raise money for a transgender pledging member’s surgery.

The nation’s leading university for the deaf and hard of hearing has reinstated its chief diversity officer, who was suspended for three months after signing a petition circulated by opponents of gay marriage in Maryland.

City College of San Francisco’s Castro campus will close next semester amid a financial crisis that threatens the school’s future.

A riotous mixture of hysteria, tears, and what some called misguided anger stirred as City College of San Francisco trustees voted 6-1 to bring in a special trustee to manage the present accreditation crisis.

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth come out at younger ages, finding an LGBT-friendly college or university is high on their priority list. Campus Pride ranks "Top 25" LGBT-friendly colleges and universities across the country.

The report, highlighting that City College is poorly run, aimed to have the school meet a few of the eligibility requirements for state accredited colleges.

Much more than a grouping of eight colleges and universities, the Ivy League-with its hallowed halls, private clubs, and grassy quadrangles-is the consummate reward of the American Dream.

Bowie State University will make LGBT history come April 2. On that Monday, the university will become the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) to open a resource center for LGBTQI students and their straight allies.