Diversity

Spurred by the pandemic, student unions for disabled students are emerging to demand more accommodations, create support communities and raise public awareness of the challenges their population faces.

Women of color are doing much of the work that benefits institutions, yet they aren’t being recognized or rewarded for it, writes M. Cristina Alcalde, citing three areas that should be addressed.

By M. Cristina Alcalde

Professors seek a united faculty voice against legislative incursions into the curriculum with respect to the teaching of race.

Tens of thousands of legal restrictions limit job options for formerly incarcerated students who got college degrees and certificates in hopes of gaining a new lease on life.

The national initiative will aim to make sweeping changes to higher education over the next decade by improving credential completion and social mobility and reducing student loan debt.

University of North Carolina will create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the system’s 17 campuses for learners largely ignored by many universities.

New federal policies will probably create challenges for everyone—students, employees and higher ed institutions alike—but institutions should take particular notice, Howard Pashman writes.

By Howard Pashman

The faculty can be a major success factor in how a college deals with financial stress and should play an integral role in any decision-making process, Mark Podgainy and Kristine Southard write.

By Mark Podgainy and Kristine Southard