Racial groups

In a coming book, scholars examine the abundance of derogatory comments white students make when only they are around.

Number of test takers and high scorers rise, though gaps in performance among racial groups still vexing.

Study finds that minority sociologists disproportionately drop out of academe at the Ph.D. level and again during tenure process.

For Duke University's lacrosse team, some semblance of normalcy -- if not closure -- came last weekend, when the team whose previous season had been canceled amid the now-infamous rape case that roiled the campus returned to action for the first time. Thousands of fans cheered and few (if anyone) jeered, according to published reports. 

Minority women pursuing their Ph.D.'s mentor one another and young girls to keep the pipeline open at all levels.

Study finds campus dialogue with racially diverse participants altered student views -- but conversation among those with differing views didn't.

No student group wants to be identified with a campus killer. Koreans hope ethnicity doesn't become an issue at Virginia Tech and elsewhere.

Debate over first-year curriculum challenging "hegemony" at UC San Diego heats up as 2 graduate students lose their jobs.

A small private college in Kentucky, almost entirely white, starts numerous efforts to recruit black students.

It was all busyness and business as usual at Bardoli Global’s Houston headquarters Tuesday when the small staff of four stopped – albeit for but a second. “You’re in a frenzy doing something all the time but we looked up and said, ‘You realize, some of our kids are gone?’” recalls Anthony Jewett, executive director and CEO of the organization. “We’ve done it.”