Charlotte, N.C. - “Campus Pride is proud to announce our fifth year of LGBT-friendly college fairs. Prospective students want to attend campuses that are a welcoming and safe place to learn, live and grow... finally there are annual fairs to help students find LGBT-friendly colleges,” stated Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride and author of The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students. “Our LGBT-friendly national college fair program showcases campuses who are LGBT-friendly and who want LGBT & ally students. It sends a clear message: Gay students are welcome, even celebrated on this campus.”

Campus Pride has developed the fairs as a public way for colleges to “come out” and recruit out LGBT students who are an important component to campus diversity. The fairs are also being held in coordination with the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index (www.campusclimateindex.org), the only online resource of its kind that assists colleges and universities in learning ways to improve their LGBT campus life and helps prospective students find a national index listing of LGBT-friendly colleges and universities.

“The LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index demonstrates how colleges are ‘coming out’ to provide programs and services for LGBT and ally students. The idea that LGBT student populations are a part of the campus recruitment and retention efforts is just another sign of the changing times,” stated Windmeyer.

Event Details: Saturday, August 27, 2011
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Location: Pride Charlotte Festival, Uptown Charlotte on S. Tryon Street, between 3rd and Stonewall Streets

For more information about Campus Pride, please visit www.CampusPride.org. For more information on the LGBT-friendly Campus Climate Index, visit www.campusclimateindex.org. For more details on the LGBT-Friendly National College Fair Program, visit www.campusclimateindex.org/events/.