Diversity

A longtime president's controversial medical leave highlights issues of leaders' age, health and time in charge.

University -- criticized by black students for name of its gardens -- is changing name.

Students deserve safe spaces on a campus because the absence of such spaces is counter to the very mission of higher education, argues Matthew Pratt Guterl.

By Matthew Pratt Guterl

The long-lasting unequal outcomes in higher education -- especially among Latino, black, Native American and underserved Asian-American students -- are evidence that we haven't made needed changes in the classroom, writes Estela Mara Bensimon.

By Estela Mara Bensimon

Simple characterizations of campus protests as confrontations between hypersensitive students and fearful campus employees do little to advance the goal of achieving equity in higher education, write Magdalena L. Barrera and Shelley S. Lee.

By Magdalena L. Barrera and Shelley S. Lee

It depends on whom you ask, write David L. Brunsma, David G. Embrick and James M. Thomas, who contend that institutional leaders often try to deny racial tensions on their own campuses.

By David G. Embrick et al.

Colleges hire more minority and female professors, but most jobs filled are adjunct, not tenure track, study finds.