{"id":209411,"date":"2019-01-24T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=209411"},"modified":"2019-01-25T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:12:19","slug":"montclair-state-named-a-top-25-lgbtq-friendly-campus-by-college-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2019\/01\/24\/montclair-state-named-a-top-25-lgbtq-friendly-campus-by-college-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair State Named a Top 25 LGBTQ Friendly Campus by College Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its first-ever survey, College Consensus has ranked Montclair State as one of the nation\u2019s top \u201c25 LGBTQ Friendly Colleges of 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The national accolade places the University among other prestigious institutions such as Princeton University, Tufts University, the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, Rutgers University and Lehigh University that share a commitment to making their campuses safe and ideal learning environments for all students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud to be included in the College Consensus Top 25 LGBTQ ranking of colleges and universities. Montclair State has a long history and tradition of providing equity and quality in all of its programs and services,\u201d says Montclair State Vice President for Student Development and Campus Life Karen L. Pennington. \u201cWe welcome everyone as a member of our community and strive to provide a comforting and supportive environment to all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The College Consensus listing specifically recognizes the University\u2019s LGBTQ Center, which through leadership development, education, advocacy and support services fosters a campus environment that is inclusive and supportive of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.<\/p>\n<p>LGBTQ Center resources also include a Safe Space program and numerous topical discussion groups. Students can join Theta Delta Sigma, a new LGBTQ-focused, gender inclusive Greek Life society. They can elect to live in Stonewall Suites, the University\u2019s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/questioning and allied living community.<\/p>\n<p>Montclair State\u2019s Gender, Sexuality and Women\u2019s Studies department offers a minor in LGBTQ Studies that explores the connections between gender, sexuality and the political, economic, historical and cultural institutions and relationships that shape lives and identities.<\/p>\n<p>College Consensus scores are based on a school\u2019s combined average of aggregated scores from respected college rankings publishers and online student review scores. Learn more and view the full list at <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeconsensus.com\/rankings\/best-lgbt-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.collegeconsensus.com\/rankings\/best-lgbt-schools\/<\/a><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its first-ever survey, College Consensus has ranked Montclair State as one of the nation\u2019s top \u201c25 LGBTQ Friendly Colleges of 2019.\u201d The national accolade places the University among other prestigious institutions such as Princeton University, Tufts University, the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, Rutgers University and Lehigh University that share a commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209418,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209411\/revisions\/209418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}