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The Bias for White Men
Study finds faculty members more likely to respond to inquiries from prospective graduate students who are white males. Business faculty appear to favor white men most, humanities and arts professors the least.
Grating Expectations
A new study, based on interviews with 35 female college leaders, shows how women are discouraged but can encourage other women.
Status Quo on State Bans on Affirmative Action
Supreme Court finds that Michigan voters had the right to bar public colleges from considering the use of race in admissions.
Opinion
Right to Gender-Neutral Spaces
Graduate student workers in the U. California System say they've agreed on contract language establishing gender-neutral bathrooms and lactation stations as rights.
Question of Consent
The case of a Rutgers U. philosophy professor accused of sexually assaulting a man with cerebral palsy raises questions about a controversial communication method much debated by disability studies scholars.
Opinion
Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers
Academe encourages professors to build ties connected to their research. But Judith Shapiro wants to know why the same attention isn't given to connections related to what goes on in the classroom.
New presidents or provosts: Furman U., Lakeview College of Nursing, Maryland Institute College of Art, Saginaw Valley State U., U. of South Alabama, Union U.
Donald Bachand, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Saginaw Valley State University, in Michigan, has been promoted to...
Opinion
Networks and the STEM Gender Gap
Colleges and universities can't leave it to chance -- they must deliberately change a culture that often encourages female researchers to become isolated in their jobs, write Santa Ono and Valerie Gray Hardcastle.