Race & Ethnicity

Some college applicants do lie about their race, survey finds.

A canceled lecture divides MIT and prompts a review, even as the talk finds new life at Princeton University.

Laura Skandera Trombley and Ann Ryan explore Mark Twain’s writing as just one example of how thoroughly American it is to try to unravel the knot of race, racism and U.S. history.

And here’s what our white students at Vanderbilt University said, in their own words, about what they learned, write Ebony Omotola McGee, Devin T. White and Lynette Parker.

Colleges have excellent faculty who are contributing new knowledge on equity and inclusion, but sadly that knowledge is rarely applied to the institutions themselves, writes Laurel Smith-Doerr.

Colleen K. Vesely, Supriya Baily, Jatin Ambegaonkar, Holly Klee and Stormi Woltz describe their process for identifying and organizing DEI data to help drive change at their university.

Author discusses her book on Asian Americans who are “college impostors” and the “model minority” myth.

University of Nebraska system Board of Regents voted down a proposal to ban the "imposition" of critical race theory in the classroom. Students and faculty members wanted that outcome, but some worry about the damage that's already been done.