Diversity

With a new graduation season, a new controversy arrives. Berkeley students protest selection of comedian viewed as anti-Muslim.

Given chance to consider bans on same-sex marriage in five states, the Supreme Court refused. Scott McLemee looks at a book on the long backstory.

The movie "Dear White People" is "a satire about being a black face in a white place." Does it accurately portray race relations on mostly white campuses?

The leading search engine for academic research is almost 10 years old. Scott McLemee considers how it's grown -- and to what size.

Princeton professor protests his preemptive exclusion from a panel based on his support of the academic boycott of Israel.

The U.S. Department of Education will be required to make student loan information more accessible both online and in print as part of a settlement.

Only 10 percent of Japanese researchers are women, but of those researchers who leave the country, 60 percent are women.

When higher education administrators and reforms ignore the role of professors, write Philip G. Altbach and Martin J. Finkelstein, they risk killing the goose that lays the golden egg.