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Religious Literacy
Survey suggests colleges can do more to equip students to engage with religious diversity. Students from some religious groups find campus more welcoming and supportive than others.
New Push to Diversify Endowments and Their Managers
Several members of Congress and activists are pushing colleges to reveal diversity measures for those who manage their endowments and investments. The numbers aren't pretty now, but some see hope for change.
Opinion
Don’t Rely on Black Faculty to Do the Antiracist Work
Higher education leaders can do more than simply give lip service to the need to dismantle systemic racism, argues Shenique S. Thomas-Davis, who offers a number of recommendations.
Opinion
Do Colleges Need a Chief Diversity Officer?
When strategically and purposely positioned, funded and supported, such senior administrators can play a vital role in higher education institutions today, writes Eugene T. Parker III.
Opinion
A Farewell Letter to DEI Work
Such departments, centers and divisions are spaces of impossibility -- they can't do the things they are tasked with, as they are not empowered to hold people accountable, writes Tatiana McInnis.
Justice Department v. Yale
Federal agency says the university's admissions policies discriminate against Asian and white applicants.
Remembering George Floyd
Some colleges are reviewing their law enforcement and criminal justice curricula following national unrest around police brutality and racism.
The ADA at 30
Mary Lee Vance answers questions about the Americans With Disabilities Act, which passed 30 years ago last week, including on progress still to be made and concerns for the COVID-19 age.