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Opinion

Disciplinary ‘Redlining’ Is Not Decolonization

A white professor of BIPOC history reflects on a disturbing development—a refusal to grant credit to scholars whose phenotype matches that of historical oppressors.

USC Faces Investigation Over Alleged Student Harassment

The Office for Civil Rights will investigate whether USC failed to protect a Jewish student from discrimination and harassment because of her support for Israel.

Harvard and UNC Cases to Be Heard Separately

The Supreme Court, which had combined the cases of affirmative action, separates them. Justice Jackson can now participate in UNC case.

Protecting Pregnant Students

A group of 60 Congressional Democrats asked the Education Department to clarify how Title IX protects students who are pregnant, parents or seeking an abortion.

A New Approach to Ranking Colleges

New updates to an Economic Mobility Index seek to help policy makers and others better understand which colleges and universities are best for low-income students.
Opinion

Revolutionizing Promotion to Full Professor

Academic leaders and senior faculty often don’t recognize or acknowledge that structural and systemic racism is frequently imbedded in the process, write Sydney Freeman Jr. and Vicki L. Baker.
Opinion

Why DEI Initiatives Are Likely to Fail

The math does not add up. DEI faculty hiring initiatives are but cheap talk without corresponding efforts to build the pipeline, Mariappan Jawaharlal writes.

A University’s Attempt to Give Back Meets Local Resistance

Fairfield University’s Bellarmine College, designed to give low-income students in neighboring Bridgeport an affordable education, faces pushback from some residents.