Diversity

Everything you need to know for Friday and the weekend about higher ed and the coronavirus in one easy-to-read package (with some distractions to help your sanity).

Colleges should be mindful of how cultural competence plays a role in every area of their business operations, from student development to even pandemic preparation, argues Kenneth M. Chapman Jr.

Early journal submission data suggest COVID-19 is tanking women's research productivity.

An Indiana Wesleyan student suspended for sexual assault was wrongly said to have HIV in a professor's report. Now he's suing the university for bias and defamation -- and for neglecting to tell him he may have been exposed to the virus.

New computational analysis finds that underrepresented scholars outperform majority peers in terms of novel research, but they don't reap the same rewards.

Women and minority administrators are paid less than others and disproportionately occupy lower-level roles, a new report finds. Experts are divided over whether the current pandemic will close the gaps or throw them open wider.

Study finds that when states ban affirmative action, their numbers of underrepresented minority students go down, for the long run.