Extreme Co-ed housing.CLARK UNIVERSITY Clark University, at Worcester, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1887, opened as a graduate school 1889. It was the second graduate school to be formed in the United States. Its undergraduate college (est. 1902) was integrated with the university in 1920. (MASS.) IS THE LATEST on a short list of institutions allowing males and females to share the same dorm room. It's not the sign of moral corruption that it might seem at first sight. The new policies are touted as a way to make transgender transgender or transgendered adj. Transsexual. , gay, and lesbian students more comfortabte on campus, and to fight a "hetero-normative" mindset mind·set or mind-set n. 1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations. 2. An inclination or a habit. in housing policies. Both students must request the assignment, and measures are in prate to ensure no one is accidentally assigned as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. to a mixed room. Jeffrey Chang, the Clark student who spearheaded the change, has co-founded www.genderblind.org as a resource for other students and administrators considering gender-inclusive policies. He says people from more than 75 colleges and universities have visited the site since its December launch. "Increasingly, we're noticing that college administrators are more receptive receptive /re·cep·tive/ (re-cep´tiv) capable of receiving or of responding to a stimulus. to addressing their practices and policies to meet the needs of transgender students and our changing times," Chang says. |
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