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Washington and Lee offers full-throated defense of professors targeted for political and racist reasons.

HBCUs are getting high student compliance with social distancing and mask wearing and are reporting lower coronavirus infection rates. College leaders partly credit Black college culture -- and student awareness of the toll of the pandemic on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities.

The justice, who died Friday, wrote decisions that upheld rights of women, racial minorities and gay people in higher education.

University of Chicago English says it's only admitting Black studies Ph.D. candidates for 2021 admissions cycle, citing Black Lives Matter and the field's complicated history with regard to race.

Jessica Krug resigns from George Washington as a graduate student from her alma mater also admits to being dishonest about racial identity.

Academics across the U.S. strike and teach for racial justice and an end to police violence against people of color.

Professor suspended for saying a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur in English.

Prominent scholar outs herself as white just as she faced exposure for presenting herself as Black.

Professors are planning a work stoppage and virtual, public teach-in on police violence and racism next month.