Diversity

Margaret Spellings, president of the University of North Carolina, pledges that campuses won't limit access for transgender students while lawsuits are pending.

Dick Gregory writes that students who are protesting against a dean who recommended his autobiography should think about which battles matter the most.

By Dick Gregory

New comedy Neighbors 2 highlights longstanding rules that bar sororities from having alcohol, a rule that some women say is sexist and possibly dangerous.

Colleges around the country are adding facilities and adopting policies designed to help transgender students.

Colleges are asking if there's still a place on campus for student groups with limits on who may join.

Pomona changes criteria for evaluating teaching to include whether professors are "attentive to diversity in the student body."

Republican lawmakers back bill that would substantially cut tuition and revenue, and seek more student diversity, at five system campuses, four of which are minority-serving institutions.

At Dartmouth, an Asian-American professor receives unanimous English department backing and is rejected at higher levels. The same happened to a black historian at the college. Many see a disturbing pattern.