Not so safe space: Gallup shows colleges aren’t inclusive to minority groups

College campuses are billed as the most progressive spots on earth — where everyone can have a safe space, free of offensive ideas and triggering topics. But, a new massive survey from Gallup shows otherwise.

Gallup teamed up with Purdue University and sampled nearly 11,500 college grads from August to October of this year. The results, released today, had a major focus on diversity at college campus. Gallup asked respondents if they felt their college was “a good place or not a good place to study for” ethnic and racial minorities and LGBT students.

If you ask any professor if their classes are welcoming to all minority groups, they would answer “yes.” If you ask college presidents if their campuses are safe for minority groups, they would probably go out of their way to explain that not only are they welcoming, they have classes and programs dedicated to these groups.

However, that’s not what graduates are saying.

Just 42 percent of respondents who graduated from 1990 to 2016 said that their college was a “good place to study” for LGBT students. Fewer than 7-in-10 respondents said their college was a “good place to study” for ethnic and racial minorities.