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Colleges across denominations are being challenged on campus and in courts by a student population that is increasingly demanding equal resources and acceptance.
Eastern University, a Christian school affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA, has amended its policies to allow for the hiring of LGBTQ faculty and to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination statement. As a result, its membership with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities has been put on hold during the 2022-23 academic year, and the school
Yeshiva University, an orthodox Jewish tertiary school in New York City that went to the Supreme Court to block a "pride alliance" of LGBTQ students, said through its attorneys Monday they would sanction a club for those students on campus "willing to adhere to a Torah-based lifestyle."