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Creating Racially and Ethnically Diverse Faculties

We must change hiring practices to produce racially and ethnically diverse faculties, argues Estela Mara Bensimon.

Tone-Deaf

SUNY Binghamton engineering professor offends many by asking about a “white” engineering society in response to an email from a black students’ group.

Punishing Women for Being Smart

Employers favor new college graduates with moderate academic success but not high achievement, study finds. New male graduates' grades don't seem to have much impact.
Opinion

Does Online Reinforce the Color Line?

Online education is an engine of racial inequality, argue Christopher Newfield and Cameron Sublett, and no good higher ed policy can be created ignoring that fact.

‘I Am First Gen’

An Arizona community college wants to tackle poverty by helping its students and faculty members celebrate being the first in their families to attend college.
Opinion

When Core Values Collide

Pareena Lawrence explores how colleges can balance diversity and inclusion with free speech.

White Liberal Insecurity (and Hypocrisy?) on Affirmative Action

What happens to diversity-minded educators when their son is wait-listed by Yale, but his biracial best friend with lower grades and test scores gets in? A new play has people talking.

What a Professor Can't Say

Penn says Amy Wax will no longer teach required first-year courses after another widely criticized set of comments about race -- this time about black law students at the university -- comes to light.