Diversity

Colleges and universities are making progress on efforts to serve disabled students, but some advocates and scholars say higher ed has been slow to recognize disability as an identity group or include it in programming around diversity and inclusion.

While guns continue to proliferate on college campuses, writes Matt Valentine, so should interest among scholars in researching gun violence -- an area long neglected by academics.

By Matt Valentine

Experts differ in their explanations as higher education prepares for new attacks on affirmative action.

Students of color at Haverford and administrators are at a standstill as a boycott of classes continues for a second week. The students are demanding firm commitments to structurally shift the institution and better support for students of color.

Although many people may try to define them by their disadvantages, students often view being first generation as a source of influence and power, Marlette Jackson and Ngoc Tran write.

By Marlette Jackson and Ngoc Tran

California voters are rejecting a proposal to restore affirmative action at the state's public colleges and universities.

Pretending the significant challenges that disabled students must grapple with aren’t real -- just different -- does not help and perhaps even harms them, argues Stephen Stern.

By Stephen Stern

Will Election Day see a restoration of the consideration of race in admissions in California? Will the vote be as influential as the measure to ban affirmative action?