Today many Americans—especially young Americans—may assume we have moved past the time of gender, racial, and religious intolerance. The unfortunate reality is that a large number of bias incidents (whether verbal or physical) continue to take place each year on college and university campuses all over the country.
Campus Tolerance Foundation (CTF) set out to learn just how physically and intellectually safe America’s college campuses really are. Together with the FDR Group, we surveyed more than 2,600 undergraduate students on 10 college campuses to find out how each individual campus rates on a variety of tolerance issues. The results may surprise you.
See how the following universities
fared on the Campus Tolerance Survey.
Barnard
George Washington University
Harvard
Ohio State University
Texas A & M
UCLA
University of Florida, Gainesville
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
University of Washington, Seattle
Fox Five segment on our research on Bias Incidents and Harassment on Campus
CRITERIA CHECKLIST FOR
SELECTING THE RIGHT COLLEGE FOR YOU
Develop a list of common criteria you want to use to evaluate colleges:
Distance from home
Size -- intimate college or large university
Location -- urban vs. suburban or rural setting
State school vs. private university
Academic specialties/degrees offered
Scholarships/financial assistance
Costs (tuition, room, board, etc.)
Campus resources (labs, libraries, technology, etc.)
Housing Options (dorms vs. apartments; single sex or co-ed)
Accreditation/ranking
Other Vital criteria:
Safety (campus, community)
Diversity of student body (gender, race, religion, etc.)
Campus tolerance toward minorities
Women’s sexual safety
Intellectual openness
Campus tolerance/sexual harassment awareness programs
