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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.

Some colleges are asking students to identify their sexual orientation in order to protect LGBT students and offer them special scholarships.

New Haven, the coastal Connecticut city made famous by being the home of Yale University, is emerging as a culinary and artistic destination.

Gary Rold didn’t necessarily consider himself a pioneer when he decided that Elmhurst College would begin asking applicants about their sexual orientation.

After decades of laissez-faire and faith that just breathing the air in foreign lands broadens horizons, American colleges and international programs are pressing students harder to get out of their comfort zones.

Oregon State University has been given top marks as one of the best campuses in the country for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students. OSU is among 33 American colleges and universities to receive the highest ranking.

The latest gay stereotype to crash and burn: that college girls generally sleep with other college girls. A new study shows that women without high school diplomas are actually doing it for themselves more than are coeds.

What if it were possible for students to experience first-hand what they’ve been studying - while also getting class credit? "That’s the idea behind Global Exchange’s ’alternative Spring break’ Reality Tours," says program director Malia Everette.