Boston, Mass., May 11, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Boston College will change its nondiscrimination statement and make it more welcoming to homosexual students and employees.
The changes were agreed upon and drafted at the beginning of May, after weeks of meetings between the Jesuit school's general counsel, two high-ranking student affairs officials, and student leaders, reported the Boston Globe.
Student activists have pushed for changes in the school's policy for more than three years, since the college appeared in Princeton Review's list of gay-unfriendly colleges.
In the new policy, the college "commits itself to maintaining a welcoming environment for all people and extends its welcome in particular to those who may be vulnerable to discrimination on the basis of their race . . . religion, color, age . . . or sexual orientation."