Diversity

Immigrant engineering faculty may face challenges in navigating American classroom cultures and the societal context for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Mariappan Jawaharlal writes.

Two scholars of higher education discuss Inside Higher Ed data showing colleges have hired more Black and Latino leaders since George Floyd was killed—and what will give the trend lasting significance.

Saint Vincent College adopts new rules after many found speaker’s remarks at conference sponsored by college to be racist.

Recognizing the boundaries of academic freedom is important to protecting it, Inara Scott writes.

California State University, Fullerton, sought to make students feel less defeated about being placed on academic probation, so administrators banished “probation” from the institution’s official lexicon.

Kerri Shook shares lessons from her research into student perceptions of institutional efforts to recruit racially and ethnically diverse students.

AAUP report on Linfield University’s firing of a chaired professor sets stage for censure later this year.

Coalitions of companies, colleges and research groups, funded by Gates, will develop digital courses especially aimed at improving learning outcomes for underrepresented students in gateway statistics and chemistry courses.