The University of Nevada in Las Vegas now offers eight separate accommodations for students, women, and LGBT minorities. According ...
The University of Nevada in Las Vegas now offers eight separate accommodations for students, women, and LGBT minorities.
According to a report by The College Fix, UNLV now offers eight different residential areas for minority students. The university describes the individual residences as a "thematic community".
Earlier this year the university had a building on campus called Howell City, named after the first black landowner in the area, to offer students separate levels based on their identity.
Howell Town is the newest thematic community on campus. The residences also offer apartments for all women, for a healthy life and for LGBTQ + students, as well as apartments for members of Honors College and Harrah College of Hospitality. In its first semester, Howell Town attracted 30 residents, mostly graduate and transfer students.
According to UNLV representatives, their school is the second most diverse in the country. To defend this title, they feel that they need to provide separate spaces for the students to "explore" their diversity.
"It became clear that there was a desire and need for special spaces to meaningfully research identity," said a UNLV official.
"Howell Town offers strength by celebrating and exploring diversity instead of just having diversity or the existence of differences," he added. "These resources and the connection between them are essential elements for the success of the students."
Breitbart News reported in May that at least 75 American universities are offering a separate graduation ceremony for black students. Many other institutions offer separate graduation ceremonies for communities of Latino, disabled, and LGBT students.
"We really wanted to be able to give a voice to the voiceless at Harvard," said a Harvard official in 2017. "So many students identify with the African diaspora, but they don't really feel welcome at Harvard." as members of the general community. , and what a gift "I think their stories will be shared."
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