Diversity

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.

The tool will allow colleges and universities to assess their atmosphere for religious diversity.

Some HBCU leaders are considering building satellite campuses to expand their reach and serve more Black students.

Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.